🍘 Snacks

Chewy fish sausage-like snack from Terengganu, made from fresh fish and sago flour, deep-fried until golden. Served with sweet chili sauce for dipping.

snack · street-food · iconic

Savory prawn fritters made from a spiced batter with whole prawns, bean sprouts, and spring onions, deep-fried until crispy. A popular teatime snack across Malaysia.

snack · teatime · street-food

Fresh (unfried) spring rolls filled with jicama (bangkuang), carrots, tofu, egg, lettuce, bean sprouts, and a sweet sauce, all wrapped in a thin wheat skin. A Hokkien/Teochew heritage dish.

snack · street-food · healthy

Sabah's indigenous raw fish salad where fresh mackerel is 'cooked' by citrus acid alone — sliced thin and cured in lime juice with bird's eye chili, ginger, shallots, and grated bambangan seed. A Kadazan-Dusun heritage dish that parallels Latin American ceviche but uses endemic Bornean botanicals.

indigenous · sabah · raw-fish