Kuala Lumpur food trip

[Harters (John Hartley - a culinary patriot eating & cooking in Northwest England)]

@thwysg

Made our way down to Nasi Lemak Wanjo

I’ve just been watching a travel documentary where the presenter went to Wanjo for nasi lemak.

[klyeoh (Peter)]

Rhys William, a British transplant living in KL, has a YouTube feature on Nasi Lemak Wanjo. He’s got a huge following among the Malays here - his videos specialise in Malaysian-Malay cuisine (not Chinese-Malaysian or Indian-Malaysian).

He’s speaking in Malay here on his Nasi Lemak Wanjo episode, but there are English subtitles:

Rhys William when he first arrived in Malaysia back in 2013, and now.

[Harters (John Hartley - a culinary patriot eating & cooking in Northwest England)]

@klyeoh

Rhys William when he first arrived in Malaysia back in 2013, and now.

Testament to the good eating opportunities?

I enjoyed the vid. Well, apart from the lung bit. I’ve eaten lung once, in Spain - it was unpleasantly chewy and I’d not be in a rush to try it again

[Presunto (--> Eating yoghurt in Athens .......... [Fleeced Taxpayer :@)) :@)) ])]

Unrecognisable! What’s happened in a few short years? Only from the food?

I can’t find it anymore but it was on BBC site where I read an article about a young Brit in Malaysia who married a local and converted to islam and accidentally became a celeb. His popularity started when he spoke Terengganu dialect to a shopkeeper in KL.

Anyway, check out “my” new dress:

Miss Universe Malaysia to wear nasi lemak dress

[klyeoh (Peter)]

@Harters

Testament to the good eating opportunities?

I think his mini-celebrity status, which resulted in a quite prolific eating schedule, played a part in that. And Malay cuisine tends to be very rich: lots of coconut milk, lots of sugar, high-carb, a lot of deep-fried food items!

@Harters

Well, apart from the lung bit. I’ve eaten lung once, in Spain - it was unpleasantly chewy and I’d not be in a rush to try it again

I had the same experience with fried lung at Nasi Lemak Antarabangsa, another top nasi lemak spot in Kuala Lumpur. I just did not like its smell. First and last for me.

[klyeoh (Peter)]

@Presunto

Unrecognisable! What’s happened in a few short years? Only from the food?

Yup, and all within 5-6 years! He just ate and ate his way through Malaysia!

BTW, @Presunto, that Miss Malaysia who wore the nasi lemak dress is currently under a cloud of controversy ever since she made some ridiculous comments with regards to the George Floyd killing and protests:

https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2020/06/01/george-floyd-protests-outrage-after-ex-miss-universe-malaysia-claims-black/1871407

She’s lambasted by Malaysians who were outraged by her comments.

[Harters (John Hartley - a culinary patriot eating & cooking in Northwest England)]

@klyeoh

she made some ridiculous comments

A polite way of phrasing things, Peter.

[Presunto (--> Eating yoghurt in Athens .......... [Fleeced Taxpayer :@)) :@)) ])]

@klyeoh

She’s lambasted by Malaysians who were outraged by her comments.

And rightly so! I don’t understand her mentality. Just because there’s a public platform for voicing one’s opinions that doesn’t mean they should or need to broadcast their morally repugnant utterances.

As for the excess eater, it’s a disaster for his health and it shows. He can make time for exercise and his general physical health whilst still being able to enjoy all the good food and good life. He’s a young chap and chooses to do this to himself.

There’s a German rhyme that goes something like this (roughly translated): “Morning, afternoon, evening. Enjoy your beer but don’t despise it.”