FREE ESSAY ON MALAYSIA'S NATIONAL SNACK

MALAYSIA'S NATIONAL SNACK

 Malaysia's National Snack
I went to a Malaysian restaurant with my family last weekend to try some new Asian dishes
we never tasted before. The name of the restaurant is Yazmin Malaysian Restaurant. That
restaurant is located on Las Tunas Drive, San Gabriel. We ordered the curry noodles, the
spicy chicken wings, the curry squids, and the satay. Among the foods we ordered, I would
like to describe a dish that is called Satay. It is so delicious, and it is a new Asian
dish that I never tasted before.
There are many interesting Malaysian traditional things in that Malaysia restaurant. The
restaurant was decorated by hanging the Malaysian traditional kites and posters with
Malaysia famous places. Besides the kites and the posters, there also has some
traditional clothes on the walls. The boss called that is the Batik clothes. Thus, I felt
that I was like that I was eating in Malaysia in that time.
We ordered some Malaysia traditional foods, and one of those dishes that I like it very
much. That is Satay. Satay is a barbecued meat on a skewer. There are five skewers on a
plate accompany with some bite-size cubes of cold, cook rice and the cool slices of
cucumber, and uncook red onion. Along with it, there is a smaller plate filled with spicy
peanut gravy. By using the same skewer, I dipped the meat into the spicy peanut gravy
before I tasted it. Then, I speared a cube of cold, cook rice, and dipped into the gravy.
Besides the bite-size of rice, I also speared a slice of cucumber and a slice of red
onion, and dipped them into the gravy. It is so delicious until I had eaten up all the
satay.
Satay's meat is marinated and threaded through thin bamboo skewers before grilled. When
it is grilled, it is basted with margarine by using a lemon grass as brush. I believe
this made the smell better. However, the satay gravy has more complicated ingredients. It
contains of peanuts, onion, garlic, chilies, lemon juices, coconut milk, ground cumin,
ground turmeric, and chopped lemon grass. The cucumber and onion are prepared uncook and
cut into slices. The rice cubes are made of plain rice which cook with coconut milk
instead of water.
I like to eat the gravy because it contains peanuts in it. The peanuts made the gravy so
crunchy and I like it very much. The satay's meat is also good. However, when the satay
became cold, I felt hard to chew. I like the rice cubes and the cucumber very much, but
not the uncook onion because it was smelled bad after eating. Satay is a traditional food
of Malaysia. It is so special compared to the other Asian's food I had tried. Of course,
I would like to eat the satay again if I have a chance to go back to that Malaysian
restaurant.