Recipes & Cooking : Fish

Grilled Fish with Banana Leaf

Grilled Fish with Banana Leaf

This is the grilled fish recipe that I am reluctant to share. Why? Because it’s so darn good and perfect. I secretly wanted to stash my hand written Malaysian grilled fish recipe somewhere and hoping that one day, a mega chef like Jean-Georges Vongerichten would pay me $10,000 for this precious recipe. But I am a nice person; I love…

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Fried Fish with Soy Sauce

Fried Fish with Soy Sauce

I love fish, but I don’t eat enough of them here in the United States; I can hardly find the ones I love most. Growing up in Malaysia, fresh fish is abundant. There are all kinds of fish available in the wet market–big, small, tiny, deep-sea, or fresh water.  I prefer smaller and tiny fish, deep-fried to crispy goodness that…

Steamed Fish Recipe (Chinese Steamed Fish)

Steamed Fish Recipe (Chinese Steamed Fish)

(Chinese recipes, prepare authentic Chinese food now!) I love Chinese-style steamed fish–fresh-from-the-tank live fish steamed with soy sauce and topped with shredded ginger, scallions, and cilantro leaves. To me, nothing tastes as satisfying as steamed fish with white rice, drizzled with the soy sauce from the steamed fish. Sometimes, I can just eat bowls and bowls of white rice with…

Thai Fish Cake (Tod Mun Pla) Recipe

Thai Fish Cake (Tod Mun Pla) Recipe

ทอดมันปลากราย. I don’t know Thai, but I think it means Tod Mun Pla, or fish cakes in Thai. Let me tell you the story about how I fell in love with ทอดมันปลากราย, or Thai fish cakes. Every time I go to Bangkok, I love wandering about in the city, looking for interesting street foods to eat. Recently, when I was…

Deep-Fried Fish and Seafood Galore

Deep-Fried Fish and Seafood Galore

One of the things that I miss most about Malaysia is the availability of various kinds of little fishes in the market; little fishes that I grew up eating, little fishes that need no special recipes, little fishes that taste like heaven when deep-fried with just a little salt and turmeric powder or tamarind, little fishes that are so crispy…

Sweet and Sour Fish Recipe

Sweet and Sour Fish Recipe

(Chinese recipes, prepare authentic Chinese food now!) Please meet Piggy at Piggy’s Cooking Journal–a beautiful food blog that I absolutely adore and constantly drool over. A fellow Malaysian–from my hometown Penang–Piggy cooks, bakes, and writes about Asian food and other good eats. Please welcome her as a guest writer on Rasa Malaysia with the following serving of sweet and sour…

A Fishy Tale

A Fishy Tale

Fried whitebait consumed at a tapas bar in Madrid, Spain. I just love fried fish, little fish, to be precise. The best ones were my family’s specialty–small fish lightly marinated with turmeric powder, deep-fried to crispy goodness, with a vinegar-soy dipping sauce loaded with chopped bird’s eye chilies. Heavenly!

Miso-Marinated Sea Bass Recipe

Miso-Marinated Sea Bass Recipe

I love Nobu’s black cod with miso, but it’s not easy to find fresh black cod in the market, at least not in my neighborhood. So I used Chilean sea bass instead. I love Chilean sea bass–the flesh is always so moist, tender, silky, and sweet. I also love the texture and the mouth feel of Chilean sea bass…it’s absolutely…

Yong Tow Foo (Yong Tau Fu)

Yong Tow Foo (Yong Tau Fu)

I have written about Yong Tow Foo a couple of times here and here but here is the real stuff. Foong Foong’s Yong Tow Foo (Yong Tau Fu) is one of the best in Kuala Lumpur (KL), and I hope my pictures do justice to its fame. This is one of the items that I never miss out whenever I…

Baked Fish and Seafood Parcel in KL

Baked Fish and Seafood Parcel in KL

This is part 2 of my 5-hour layover in Kuala Lumpur International Airport. You can read all about Part 1 here. This is Portuguese baked fish (plus squid and clams), found at the obscure corner of Petaling Street/Chinatown in KL. In my opinion, this is the best baked fish/seafood that I have ever tasted. (I can’t even find similar offerings…

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