Assam Laksa
Assam Laksa is food should not miss at Penang. Thick rice noodles served in fish flakes soup and garnish with fresh mint, onions, shredded pineapple, cucumber, lettuce, fresh chillies, ginger flowers and spoonful of black shrimp paste(hae ko).

Penang Hokkien Mee
Penang Hokkien Mee is also called Har Meen . It made boiling shrimp and dried prawns with a touch of lard, noodles are then poured in and garnished with prawns, hard boiled egg, vegetable, beans sprout and sprinkling of deep fried shallots. The dish is served with sliced red chili, light soy sauce and sambal.

Penang Char Koay Teow
Penang Char Koay Teow is a fried flat rice noodles, tossed with bean sprouts, egg, prawns, chinese sausage, cockles and chilli. Some people have added duck eggs rather than chicken eggs to give the dish more aroma.

Koay Teow Th’ng

Koay Teow Th’ng is served with flat rice noodles in the bowl clear chicken soup with slices of chicken meat, pork meat and fish balls and garnish with chopped spring onions.

Penang Nasi Kandar
The original of Nasi Kandar can be traced back to Penang where it was peddled by Indian Muslims. The meal is a big plate of steamed rice which can be plain or mildly flavored, and served with a variety of curries and side dishes which are fried chicken, fried fish, prawns, squid, hardboiled eggs, various vegetables, and a curry.

Penang lobak
Penang lobak is a mix of deep fried stuffs which are preserved century eggs, prawn fritters, lobak fish fritters, and fried beancurd served with two types of dipping sauce that are sweet sauce (black) and spicy sauce.

Cendol
Cendol is a favorite dessert at Penang. It is a mixture of blended ice with coconut milk cooked with brown sugar, and topped with red beans and green colored jelly cendol.

Penang Travel Guide

Hainanese chicken rice balls

Hainanese chicken rice balls are most popular food in Malacca. It served with fragrant rice rolled into balls and eats with boiled chicken drenched in sesame oil, garnish with cucumber and chilli sauce.

Satay celup

Satay celup is one of Malacca’s most popular foods. It served by different raw food skewers are dunked into boiling port of specially source that is spicy peanut sauce. It is sold in a self-service and freedom chooses you like food and just pay for what you eat.

Fried Oyster Omelette

It is served by small oysters mixed in starch and egg batter with its special chili sauce which tasted spicy and a bit sour.

Cockles and shellfish stall

The stall serves cockles, snail, kepah, and mussels in a small plate with a little plate of special sauces with crushed nuts. It also serves another food includes century egg, tofu skin, fish ball, and sotong kangkung.

Popiah

Popiah is also one of Malacca’s most popular snack. It use popiah skin made from rice flour stuffed with cooked yambean (jicama), bean sprouts, egg, and some slathered with chili and sweet sauces.

Nyonya Chendol

Nyonya Chendol also called Baba Chendol. It is sweet dessert and served red beans, green colored jelly chendol with shaved ice and lashings of coconut cream and brown sticky sweet palm sugar syrup.

Nyonya Pineapple tart

A pineapple tart is popularly known in Malacca. The tasty can use one words that best to describe the deliciously of the small, easy melts-in-your-mouth with pineapple jam.

Malacca Travel Guide

A dining experience at MAHARAJAH will make you believe that exclusivity with a touch of simplicity is important in the creation of every delicious dish. Along with the assurance of a wide range of delectable dishes and maculate service, a meal at MAHARAJAH restaurant inspires interactive dining. Here is a priceless range of all finger licking royal Indian vegetarian & non-vegetarian dishes, serve with fine yellow rice, Pickles and Gourmet Chutneys.

We always ready to receive great reviews from customers. “The one & only Authentic HALAL food in town”, “Fresh, Hygienic & Authentic”. All dishes are prepared with vegetable oil, vegetables are cleaned with drinking water and the ice made with purified water. We located next to Pub Street Between CAB bank & Provincial hospital, Old Market Area.

Nasi Gudeg
Nasi Gudeg is a plate of warm rice served with young jackfruit cut in small pieces and a variety of dishes including chicken, boiled egg, tofu, and tempe cooked in thick, slightly spicy coconut sauce, very sweet and slightly spicy.. For added flavour, try having it with Sambel Goreng Krecek (buffalo skin). for add on spicy flavour. Ask any local and they will proclaim proudly that Nasi Gudeg is originated originally from Yogyakarta,. aAnd, they’re probably correctit’s probably true! Some of the most popular Gudeg restaurants are:

Nasi Langgi
Another unique food wrapped in banana leaves, consisting of warm rice with Empal (Fried Beef), Abon (preserved and sweetened beef), Perkedel (potato cake), rolled omelette and Sambal.

Mee Goreng Jawa (Javanese fried noodles)
Tired of the usual fish and pork flavour ofin Chinese style fFried nNoodles or Thai padthai? Give Javanese fried noodles a try! Spicy with a tint of sweetness, don’t be surprised if you consider going back for ait sets you for a second serving.

Ayam Goreng Mbok Berek (Mbok Berek’s Fried Chicken)
A must tryaste! The fried chicken is flavoured with garlic and coriander.

Soto
Commonly ate for breakfast. Soto is a light and appetising soup served with tempe, Perkedel and Liver Satay.

Kipo Kotagede
Kipo Kotagede is a famous bite size snack only to be found in Kota Gede. It made of green coloured tapioca dough filled with sweetened grated coconut.

Bakpia Pathuk
Bakpia Pathuk is another popular snack made from baked green beans wrapped with thin dough pastry.

Wedang Ronde
Often served at night but push-cart vendor. This is a warm ginger flavoured desert served with peanuts and tapioca cake.

Pecel
Green beans, spinach, sprouts etc. It served with spicy peanut sauce.

Yogyakarta Travel Guide

Samlor Kako
A Khmer soup that uses Prahok or fermented fish as one of the main
ingredients. Its complex, flavorsome and one of Cambodia’s favorite
national dishes.

Amok
A traditional Khmer dish with chicken, fish or shrimp and vegetables
cooked in coconut milk curry. It is usually served in a hollowed-out
coconut with rice on the side.

Kuyteav
A famous Cambodian noodle soup usually consisting of rice noodle
and beef or chicken broth. Kuyteav is usually served as breakfast with
lime juice, chili powder, sugar or fish sauce flavorings.

Loc Lac
A stir fry of cube sized beefsteak with red onion, served on top of
lettuce, cucumber and tomato. Lime juice or pepper is provided for dipping.
It’s best served with your favorite red wine.

Num Ta Leng sap – Khmer vegetarian pancake
Khmer vegetarian pancake stuffed with tofu, jicima, mung beans and
bean sprouts. Absolutely delicious!e

Siem Reap Travel Guide

Phnom Penh Travel Guide

Chicken Rice

One of Singapore’s favourite national dishes, this dish of fragrant rice and either steamed or roasted chicken is a must try. It comes with a piquant chilli dip.

Satay

Chunks of chicken, beef, mutton or pork on skewers and grilled over charcoal, satay comes with a rich peanut gravy, ketupat rice cakes and a side salad of cucumbers and onions.

Char Kway Teow

A famous noodle dish made with flat rice noodles, Chinese sausage, cockles, eggs and beansprouts. All fried up in a thick black sweet soya sauce.

Roti Prata

A flat bread, pan fried on a griddle. You can either have the squareish flaky bread plain or with an egg in it.

Chilli Crab

Spicy and sweet, this national dish is a must-try. Succulent mud crabs tossed in a piquant chilli and egg sauce. Mop up the sauce with roti (bread).

Laksa
Rice noodles in a thick coconut and shrimp gravy. The definitive one is Katong laksa.

Singapore Travel Guide

Beef Noodles
Hanoi is famous with its beef noodles. Tourist can see a lot of stalls selling beef noodles along the streets. Vietnamese will use yellow beef and quality rice to make the beef noodles. Hence, Beef noodles is a must try in Hanoi.

Chicken Noodles
Chicken noodles are famous as beef noodles. Tourist can find lots of stalls selling chicken noodle in Hanoi, too. A bowl of chicken noodles not only contains chicken and noodle but also eggs, meat and vegetables. The stall owner will put some fresh lemons on the table. It’s totally your choice, to add or not to add the lemon into your chicken noodles.

Prawn Cookies
Famous food in Hanoi. Restaurants located in West Lake sells very nice prawn cookies.

Fried Spring Roll
Vietnamese favorite food. Outer part of the spring roll is made by glutinous rice.

Green Bean Cakes
Green Bean Cakes are Vietnamese traditional cakes. The most famous shops which sell these cakes are golden dragon brand.

Baked Squids
Baked Squids is also a well-known snacks in Hanoi. It can buy in Hanoi’s old street night market.

Hanoi Travel Guide

Just to let everyone have a little sneak peak of what’s coming up within the next few weeks. a4tripians are working hard to make sure that more travel guides are going to be released and ready for sale by these coming weeks. So, that means more varieties of travel guides (in terms of different places and different languages) will be available for everyone’s convenience.

So, guidebooks that are currently ready and on sale are:

Cambodia – Siem Reap English Travel Guide

Cambodia – Pnom Penh English Travel Guide

Also, we have just launched our:

Indonesia – Yogyakarta English Travel Guide

Apart from these which are already launched and on sale, we have a few draft travel guides on sale such as:

Cambodia – Siem Reap French Travel Guide (Draft Version)

China – Beijing English Travel Guide (Draft Version)

China – Beijing Chinese Travel Guide (Draft Version)

Of course, there are other travel guides which aren’t ready yet as some of them are still under the proof reading stage. For example:

Cambodia – Siem Reap Japanese Travel Guide
Vietnam – Hanoi English Travel Guide

With all these goodies coming out soon, it looks like Christmas might be arriving a little earlier than expected

According to a Chinese saying, no visit to Beijing is complete if you miss seeing the Great Wall or dining on Beijing (or Peking) Roast Duck. The best seasons to eat it are spring, autumn and winter. The hot roast duck will be brought to the dining table by the chef where he will slice it into more than 100 thin flakes, each having its piece of crispy skin.

Instant-boiled mutton, in Chinese called “suan yang rou”, also called the Mongolian Fire Pot, was created in the Yuan Dynasty. The chosen mutton ususally come from the back, rear legs or tail of a killed sheep. It will then be cut into slices. The boiled mutton is fresh and tender, not greasy.

Rice Balls with Sweet Fillings, in Chinese called “Aiwowo”, is first appeared in the Yuan Dynasty. It is a small round pastry made from steamed glutinous rice, with different stuffing, such as hawthorn cake, rock sugar powder, sesame, green plum fruit, or mashed Chinese jujube. It were then well received by the imperial families in the Ming Dynasty. Now it is one of Beijing’s popular snacks.

Pea flour cake, in Chinese called “Wan Dou Huang” was originally a kind of dim sun made of pea flour and later became a favorite in the imperial kitchen. It was said that Dowager Empress Ci Xi liked it for its soft taste. The smashed pea pastes are added to sugar and sweet-scented osmanthus and to be served when cooled. The finished cake is cut into two-inch cubic pieces and served with red sweet dates. It has a pleasing appearance and good taste.

This rice-flour cake with yellow appearance in Chinese is called “ludagun”, if direct translated into English, called Rolling Donkey. The name is quite interesting, it describes the way the dumplings rolling in, while the fried soybean flour resembles a donkey rolling about in dust. It is a traditional Beijing snack. First the steamed glutinous millet or sticky rice dumplings are put into fried soybean flour and then added to the sweetened bean paste. Good ones should taste sweet and sticky.

Beijing Travel Guide