Malaysia

Vikingdom Trembles With Great Dumb Joy

Mamak's Street Cart is Serving up Malaysian Specialties

If you see people carrying bowls of barley lentil or curry laksa ramen soup away from a mustard yellow and silver food cart on a warm summer evening, your instinct might be to pass by the first--and second--time staring in awe. Don't walk away--you've located one of the most unique food carts around ... More >>

A Whisper to a Roar

Masak: Asian Rustic

They're slinging Singapore food in the East Village

Year of the Takeout Day 225: Tofu Pudding from Tung Woo Co.

Hot and Sweet Tofu from Tung Woo Co. (230 Grand Street)

Malaysian Restaurant Week Kicks Off June 18

If you're hearing the call of satay, roti canai, and mee goreng, we've got good news: Malaysian Restaurant Week kicks off next week, from June 18 to 24. Fatty Crab, LAUT, Penang Malaysian Cuisine, and Satay will offer a prix-fixe three-course menu for $20.12. Other restaurants (including Fatty 'Cue, ... More >>

Q&A with Chef Ho Chee Boon of Hakkasan New York: Flavors Around the World Chinese Fine Dining

We caught up with Chef Ho Chee Boon, the executive chef of Hakkasan New York, who talked about his 24 years of experience at several of the world's most renowned Asian restaurants. Chef Ho has been with the Hakkasan brand since its conception, and was the chef behind the original Michelin star rated ... More >>

Genting Palace: We Wager You'll Like It

Now you can play the ponies and eat dim sum at the same place—Aqueduct

Singapura Coming Soon to 106 Lexington Avenue

A stroll by 106 Lexington Avenue reveals that a restaurant called Singapura will open in the immediate future. Although still completely papered up, a sign notes that the restaurant will specialize in both Malaysian and Thai cuisine, and will also offer Hakka Chinese food. Although that sounds lik ... More >>

Chinatown Restaurant Week

Chinatown has established its own restaurant week, which starts this Friday and runs until March 18. Check out the participating restaurants:

Eating Penis at Minzhongle (NSFW)

The roster of organ meats available at Minzhongle is indeed impressive. In my capacity as scout for the Organ Meat Society, I've stumbled on a broad range of offal and other variety meats. It's easy enough to find liver, tongue, chitterlings, stomach tripe, sweetbreads, and even kidney, but there' ... More >>

Brooklyn's Banana Leaf: Five Don't-Miss Dishes

​These ain't no Buffalo wings! This week, Counter Culture saunters into Banana Leaf, an exemplary new Malaysian restaurant in Brooklyn's foremost Chinatown. Here are the five dishes my friends and I liked the most.

Belly Up to Taiwanese Specialties

Fish bellies, that is, at a restaurant in Elmhurst

City Cuts Summer Lunch Program; More Food Trucks Get Booze

​According to the U.N, world food production will have to increase by up to 100 percent by 2050 and focus on greener methods if the planet is to sustain an expected 9 billion population. [Washington Post] Corn isn't the only crop getting cheaper. Prices of palm-oil, used in products like inst ... More >>

New York Asian Film Fest 2011: As Nuts As Ever

Take Your Java Jones East: Asian Instant Coffees

​If you love the convenience of Starbucks VIA but find it a tad expensive for your instant-coffee needs ($10 for 12 sticks), pop over to your closest Chinese supermarket in Chinatown or Flushing to look for these cheap and tasty alternatives, by way of Southeast Asia. (IOG in Fresh Meadows, Qu ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: January 5-11, 2010

In Asian Food Truck News: Korilla to Peddle Korean BBQ, Malaysian Food Truck to Promote Malaysian Food

thrillistKorean BBQ hits the streets.​Korean tacos have been something of a Holy Grail of food truck grub since the whole Kogi-coming-to-New York brouhaha of 2009. The new Korilla BBQ Truck might be just the thing to make us forget all about that mess. Thrillist is reporting that Korilla will ... More >>

Posts of the Week

Here we sit at the end of this truncated week, casting an eye back over the news of the last four days: We ranked Our 9 Best Kid-Friendly Restaurants in NYC (and one in New Jersey). Fat Witch and Amy's Bread squared off in a Battle of the Chelsea Market Walnut Brownies. The Atlantic Grill's Mike ... More >>

American Barbecue Goes Asian; Heinz Cuts the Salt

​Flavors used in the grilling traditions of Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and other Asian countries are becoming popular in American barbecue joints. [Wall Street Journal] Heinz ketchup is changing its 40-year-old recipe to lower the salt content. Fans of the original recipe fear the ch ... More >>

Belachan Restaurant's Penang Lobak

Left: century egg; Front: shrimp fritters; Middle: bean-curd-wrapped pork; Far back: Fried tofu ​ Although there are several Malaysian restaurants in Sunset Park's Chinatown, Belachan is probably the most worthwhile. When Robert Sietsema favorably reviewed Belachan in 2007, he pronounced that ... More >>

In Praise of Malaysian Jerky, A.K.A. Meat Candy

Left to right: Spicy pork, spicy chicken, spicy sliced beef, sliced pork​ Malaysian-style jerky is entirely different from the desiccated, chewy meat product most of us are acquainted with. It is incredibly, overwhelmingly delicious, a bomb of sweet, savory, and spicy flavors, charred on the e ... More >>

Let Us Now Praise Stinky Foods: Taiwanese Stinky Tofu

​It looks so innocuous sitting on the plate, doesn't it? Southeast Asians have their durian, Scandinavians sometimes love lutefisk (especially at Christmastide), but the Taiwanese insist on stinky tofu when it comes to scarfing something really fetid.

Under Review: Sietsema at Abe & Arthur's; DiGregorio at Laut

​This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema struts on down to former discotheque Abe & Arthur's, where despite "some painfully stupid starters... you'd do well to make a meal of apps," while Sarah DiGregorio suffers the sound system at Laut, which manages to nail both iconic versions of laksa, t ... More >>

Dodge the Sake Bombs at Laut

A fine Malaysian joint hides near Union Square

Good Morning, Terrifying David Bowie Spider

​ That right there is the Heteropoda davidbowie, a newly-discovered breed of spider "distinguished by its large size and yellow hair," and which can only be found "in parts of Malaysia." Musicians, and this is important: if you name a record The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders ... More >>

Cadbury Holds Out for Better Offer; Beware the 'Halal Mafia'

​Anthony Bourdain took his culinary adventure show No Reservations on a tour of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx on Monday night's episode with his friend Fat Dave, lead singer of the New York Dolls David Johansen, Chris Cheung of Monkey Bar, and Momofuko's David Chang. [NY Daily ... More >>

Guinness Bans Muslims from Black Eyed Peas Concert in Malaysia

​In a bow to pressure from conservative elements in the government, Guinness has agreed to ban all Muslims from attending a Black Eyed Peas concert it's sponsoring in Malaysia this month. The move comes after a Malaysian Islamic court sentenced a 32-year Muslim woman to be caned after she was ... More >>

Rasa Malaysia Launches Nyonya Food Site

Fork in the Road is a long-time admirer of Rasa Malaysia, a Malaysian recipe website with gorgeous photography. The editor has just launched a new site, dedicated to Nyonya food, the cuisine that was created by Chinese settlers in Malaysia and Singapore. (Find a more detailed description of Nyonya c ... More >>

Flower in the Pocket Requires an NPR Tote for a Brain

Meat Candy

Our Man Sietsema Travels to Redang Island

Redang Island's Sweet Tarts

Pungency abounds at a Bath Beach Malaysian café

Ghooooouuuullll!!!

Our Man Sietsema: 'Fishetarians: Gobble on!'

The Whole Kadang

Sunset Park Sino-Malaysian skates to culinary victory

Pulp Fictions

Eclectic Asian series whips up crazed genre workouts and hallucinatory unease

Horoscope

Savoring Screw Pine

The Lower East Side acquires its own city of entertainment

Film

Rice Needs Fluffing

Her sticky issue: Is she or is she not running for president in 2008?

New China Much More Sturdy

Studio of Flying Daggers

Ornate sets, emperor-peasant action, and royal-court face-offs highlight a Shaw Bros. retro

Better Luck Today: Asian Fest Imagines There's No Countries

Hit Parade

Full Medal Jacket

Black Curry Sour

Portrait of a Protest

Taking globalization personally: Nine New Yorkers say what moved them to march on the IMF

Bunny Chow

Hung Up On Hong Zao