Malay cuisine

Laddu or laddoo is a spherical sweet from the Indian subcontinent made of various ingredients and sugar syrup or jaggery. It has been described as "perhaps the most universal and ancient of Indian sweets."

Malay, Javanese and Chinese Southeast Asia fried rice

Satay or sate is a Southeast Asian dish consisting of small pieces of seasoned meat, seafood or vegetables skewered on sticks and grilled over charcoal. It is typically served with a sauce, most commonly peanut-based and accompanied by rice cakes, cucumber or pickled vegetables. Common ingredients include chicken, beef, goat, pork and seafood, while regional and vegetarian variations are also found.

Malaysian rice dish cooked in coconut milk, served with sambal and side dishes.

Laksa (Jawi: ; Chinese: 叻沙) is a spicy noodle dish popular in Southeast Asia. Laksa consists of various types of noodles, most commonly thick rice noodles, with toppings such as chicken, prawns or fish. Most variations of laksa are prepared with a rich and spicy coconut curry soup or a broth seasoned with a souring ingredient like tamarind or .

drink made from sepals of Hibiscus sabdariffa

jam made from a base of coconut milk, eggs and sugar

deep fried banana or plantain

Tamil Indian flatbread dish

Murtabak, or mutabbaq (, ), is a Yemeni stuffed pancake or pan-fried bread commonly found in the Arabian Peninsula, parts of the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia (especially Maritime Southeast Asia), notably in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, parts of South India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and Southern Thailand. Depending on the location, the name and ingredients can vary significantly. The name mutabbaq means "folded" in Arabic.

Lontong () is an Indonesian dish made of compressed rice cake in the form of a cylinder wrapped inside a banana leaf, commonly found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Rice is rolled inside a banana leaf and boiled, then cut into small cakes as a staple food replacement for steamed rice. The texture is similar to that of ketupat, with the difference being that the ketupat container is made from woven janur (young coconut leaf) fronds, while lontong uses banana leaves instead.

Acar () is a type of vegetable pickle of Maritime Southeast Asia, most prevalent in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. It is a localised version of Indian achar. It is known as atjar in Dutch cuisine, derived from Indonesian acar. Acar is usually prepared in bulk as it may easily be stored in a well-sealed glass jar in refrigerator for a week, and served as a condiment for any meals.

Malay and Minangkabau food

Indonesian soup

Indonesian spicy chicken soup

Sumatran cuisine

Tharid () also known as thareed, trid, tashrib, tashreeb or taghrib is a bread soup that originates from Mecca, Saudi Arabia, an Arab cuisine also found in many other Arab countries. Like other bread soups, it is a simple meal of broth and bread, in this instance crumbled flatbread moistened with broth or stew. Historically, the flatbread used was probably stale and unleavened. As an Arab national dish it is considered strongly evocative of Arab identity during the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. According to a widespread cultural tradition, this unremarkable and humble dish was the

Indonesian and Malay grilled dish,

Kuih (Jawi: ; Indonesian: ; derived from Southern Min  ) are bite-sized snack or dessert foods commonly found in Southeast Asia (particularly in the Malay Archipelago) and China. It is a fairly broad term which may include items that would be called cakes, cookies, dumplings, pudding, biscuits, or pastries in English and are usually made from rice or glutinous rice. In China, where the term originates, in Hokkien and kué in Teochew (known as in Mandarin) refer to snacks which are typically made from rice but can occasionally be made from other grains, such as wheat. The term is widely use

Mixed rice dish from southern Thailand and Malaysia with herbs and vegetables

snack pie

Indonesian curry dish

Betawi and Malay dessert and breakfast dish

Malay traditional sandwich, popular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore

Traditional food of Terengganu origin

Tempoyak (Jawi: ), asam durian or pekasam is a Malay condiment made from fermented durian. It is usually consumed by the ethnic Malays in Maritime Southeast Asia, notably in Indonesia and Malaysia. Tempoyak is made by crushing durian flesh and mixing it with some salt and kept in room temperature from three to seven days for fermentation. Tempoyaks are usually made during the durian season, when the abundance of durian and excess production are made into fermented tempoyak.

Bahulu or baulu (Jawi: باولو) is a traditional Malay pastry (kue/kuih). It is similar in concept to the madeleine cake, but round in shape and composed of different ingredients. There are three versions available, the most common being bahulu cermai (star-shaped) and the more elusive bahulu gulung (shaped like rolls) and bahulu lapis (layered). Bahulu is believed to be originated in Malay Peninsula during the colonization era and is the corruption of the Malaccan Kristang (Portuguese-Eurasian people) word, bolu (Portuguese: ) which means cake. It is usually served during Eid al-Fitr as well as

type of pancake that looks like lace originating from Johor history

Indonesian and Malaysian rice dish

Jemput-jemput or cekodok is a traditional fritter popular in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore that is made from wheat flour. It is usually round in shape and tends to vary in size. There are many varieties of this snack, some using banana, anchovies or prawns, onion or maize.

Fish sauce originating from Kelantan

Pindang refers to a cooking method in the Indonesian and Malay language of boiling ingredients in brine or acidic solutions. Usually employed to cook fish or egg, the technique is native to Sumatra especially in Palembang, but has spread to Java and Kalimantan. The term also could refer to a specific sour and spicy fish soup which employs seasonings like tamarind. Pindang has food preservation properties, which extends the shelf life of fish products.

Pekasam (Jawi: ), Pakasam or Bekasam is a Malay term for fermented food, more precisely fermented fish product. In Malay and Banjar cookery, pekasam usually refers to freshwater fish fermented with salt, palm sugar, toasted rice grains and pieces of asam gelugur.

Indonesian dish

Indonesian snack

Indonesian hard boiled eggs

Malaysian dish

Malaysian traditional dumpling

Cincalok (Jawi: چنچالوق), also cencaluk, is a Malay condiment that originated in Malacca, Malaysia, consumed by Malays, Peranakans and Kristangs. Its origins can be traced back to the Portuguese occupation of Malacca. This condiment consists of fermented small shrimp or krill, which are called udang geragau in Melaka and are easily identifiable in the mixture. It is predominantly salty in taste, and is usually served together with chillis, shallots and lime juice. Sir R. O. Winstedt has written about "Cencaluk" in Malaysia in his book "The Circumstances of Malay Life - 1909". This shrimp is se

Indonesian desserts

Malaysian dish originating from Muar, Johor where the name 'bandung' means pair or twin

Chinese-Indonesian snack

Indonesian noodle soup

Indonesian and Malaysian chicken dish

Traditional Malaysia salad originating from Malay Penisula

Malaysian rice dish

Minangkabau traditional cake

Indonesian traditional cookie

Bruneian rice dish

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thumb|200px|Toasted coconut flesh is pounded to an oily paste to make kerisik. Kerisik (Jawi: كريسيق), also known as ambu-ambu in Minangkabau and kelapa gongseng in Indonesian, is a condiment or spice made from grinding toasted and grated coconut used in cooking among the Malay and Minangkabau communities of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. It is sometimes referred to as coconut butter. It can be made at home as a byproduct of extracting coconut milk or bought ready made. Kerisik is used in dishes such as kerabu salads, nasi ulam, gulai and especially rendang as a gravy thickener.