What Does The Land Of Malaysia Say About Food?

Malaysia seems to have been blessed by nature, which saves its volcanic eruptions, its typhoons and lashing monsoon rains and floods for other parts of Asia.

Covering both the tip of the Asian peninsula and the northwestern part of Borneo, Malaysia, not surprisingly, varies in terrain and climate. The "typical" lush tropical landscape – emerald green rice paddies, golden beaches fringed by groves of coconut palms- exist, but it is only part of the picture.

To the far north of the peninsula, near the Thai border, the climate is often dry and the landscape of endless paddy fields received by abrupt limestone hills.Contrasting with this, high on the main mountain range, Banjaran Titiwangsa, the temperature climate of the Cameron highlands makes it perfect not only for holiday makes but for the tea plantations and market gardens which provide much of the fresh produce that reaches the peninsula's markets.

Everyone's staple food is rice. But then again, noodles are widely eaten at breakfast, lunch and dinner! Perhaps the only universal quality is Malaysian food's irresistible flavor, whether it is a stick of sizzling Malay satay, pungent Indian mutton soup, Nonya chicken curry fragrant with lime leaves, Chinese pepper crab or Eurasian saltfish and pineapple curry.