Healthy Malaysian Foods

It's very important to keep hygiene in your kitchen.
Even if you're not hygienic enough, at least act like one or take into
account the very weak customers that you might just attend to in the
future. Not everybody's stomach will growl like how Professional Chefs
do.

Healthy Malaysian Foods
Many of us in Malaysia would agree on a few things like:

• Healthy foods mean bad-tasting foods, or at least not-so-good tasting foods.
• Healthy foods mean no deep-fried items.
• Healthy foods mean there wouldn't be much lard or fats in the food.
• Healthy foods mean the same boring thing over and over again.
• Healthy foods are not healthy at all!
  
• Healthy foods are just vegetarian shops you see around the corner.
• Healthy foods mean death to ice-cream, chocolate, Sam-Chan-Bak (Pork belly)
• Healthy foods mean less sodium (salt), less sugar (glucose), less fats (oil).
• I don't care about healthy foods. If I have to die 1 year later eating tasty foods, I'll be happier than dying the 10 years later eating healthy foods.
  
• Eat healthy foods also die, vice versa, also die. Why not eat tasty food and die.

There
are many local favorites and delicacies available in Malaysia that are
so CRAZED over in the European and American market. It's sad to say
that the Chinatown back there in Western countries are STILL NO MATCH COMPARED TO THE REAL THING.
Malaysians claim to be there and cook Malaysian foods could live up to
the standard. Better yet, they produce 'HEALTHY' and 'NUTRITIOUS' food
that could just give you hints of a tight pants in 2 days.

I wouldn't say all local Malaysian delights are not healthy.
In fact, there are so many that you can CHOOSE ACCORDINGLY, like when
you're sick, you eat this.. When you're tired, you eat this, when
you're feeling bored, you eat this, when you're craving for ice-creams
but do not want to dine in Baskin Robbins, you find ice-cream potong,
bla bla bla...

Let's take a look at the LESS HEALTHY Malaysian foods first:

• Char Koey Teow.
  Local
  delight, unhealthy food. Almost too excellent to compare with that Beef
  Carbonara Fettucini you ate in Bangsar the other day. CKT is way better
  than that anytime (With deep-fried lard) Contains a lot of
  'body-damaging' fats, loads of burnt ingredients and little vegetables
  (commercial ones)
  
  
• Hokkien Mee a la Penang
  Again,
  local delight, less healthy food. The soup is made out of prawn shells
  and chilly, with loads of herbs and spices. Better than any other soup
  in the whole wide world. Fucking hell, it's better with pork. Nothing
  beats. Contains loads of oxidants that could kill. Rich in fats (pork
  parts with 1/2 eggs, commercialized fried onions, 2 days old chopped
  garlic soaked in brine [Hokkien Lor Mee or Lor Mee], Bak Kut [Pork
  Ribs])
  
  
• Nasi Kandar/Mamak
  Deadliest
  but best of them all. Their curries are so well-blended that they taste
  absolutely good. Contains loads of low quality oil/fats (palm and
  animal), loads of LDL. But people crave for it every now and then.
  Especially nasi kandar's fried chicken. Nothing beats.
  
  
• Pure Indian/Malay foods
  Depending
  on what you order - Healthy ones include (Sour milk/yoghurt, ratsam,
  lettuce & sambal, beef rendang [Kedah/Penang island style],
  cucumbers, deep fried bitter gourts, steamed assam fish) and unhealthy
  ones are (Lamb curry [without yoghurt], beef spice, mutton cooked in
  variety of spices, ayam masak merah, ayam masak pakprik, ikan bakar)
  
  
• Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs in Chinese Herbal Soup)
  Extreme
  craze among non-halal Malaysians, but could kill your cholesterol level
  indefinitely. Some come with Tau Fu Pok, lettuce, pork bones, SUPERBLY
  FAT pork belly, etc. But this isn't very unhealthy because the herbs
  help rejuvenate your immune system - But, some argue that these herbs
  loses all of it due to the long-boiling period.
  
  
• Chicken/Duck/Pork rice
  Healthier
  option, but still deadly. 'Bad stuffs' are smaller in portion, starches
  are little, there are certain anti-oxidants served (I don't believe
  that AT ALL), accompanied with a delightful, spicy/peppery soup! What
  could be better than having coriander/chinese celery leaves on top of
  your roasted chicken rice now? Comes in choices of Roasted
  Chicken/Duck, Poached Chicken, Char Siu (BBQed Pork belly/fatty loin
  pieces), Siu Yok (Sio Bak/Roasted Pork).
  

And this list is
the 'Healthier' Malaysian local delights/foods that you can actually
find. Note that if you order these foods the wrong way, they are no
different from the unhealthy list that you can see above.

• Plain Porridge (sometimes Chicken/Pork Porridge)
  Superbly
  ANNOYING and HATED - But the best way to keep yourself out of trouble
  or cravings for local Malaysian delights/foods. Usually eaten with
  pickled choy sum (chai sim), soy sauce and steamed vegetables. No meat.
  Yes, NO MEAT. Imagine that.
  
  
• Koey Teow Soup (Koey Teow Th'ng/Chinese Fettucini with Pork Soup)
  Average
  healthy Malaysian food. It's considered healthy because of its plain
  pork soup, which is considered top-notch for any stock base. Still, if
  you have 'dangerous' ingredients like lard or minced meat inside,
  you're going to have loads of trouble. Usually, healthier ones are
  served without Garlic Oil, and Pork meat, but with fishballs, spring
  onions, bean sprouts and plain pork soup.
  
  
• Economy Rice (Home cooked)
  Depending
  on what's served. Usually, healthier items like steamed vegetables or
  fish are served. Should there be chicken, it'll be steamed/boiled
  chicken and most importantly, SOUP. Herbal soups, peanut soup, lotus
  root soup, etc.