Makan means eat. This Malaysia word is one of the most common words used by Malaysian. Anyway, let’s go to my makan journey of a day. I like nasi lemak in the morning for my breakfast. In my previous job (GuocoLand), I like the one opposite HSBS building. The rice is hot. The ikan bilis and sambal are delicious. Biasa one, just RM1 only. Awesome nasi lemak indeed!
During lunch, I will usually go for a normal mix rice. I will usually choose 3 items among these few items: potato, egg, fish, tofu, vegetables. For potato, I like KFC’s whipped potato and potato wedges (but not with cheese in it!).
In the evening, I look forward for the dinner from my father’s cook. Even though his cook is mediocre but I love it. I know he concerns about hygine and health in his cook. Our family diet become more and more healthy. In the past, we have pork and now we hardly have it.
If I didn’t go back home for dinner and in around Jalan Bukit Bintang area, I will surely go for this vegetable store in Jalan Alor for dinner. This food stall is unique because they sell plain vegetables. You can just order vegetables alone to makan. But, don’t go on Thursday. It is their rest day. It is located besides this “Makanan Salai” shop (picture below).
I don’t usually eat a lot at night for supper. Maybe, just a drink of Milo or something light like biscuit or cookies.
What else I like to makan?
I like nuts. Recently, I began to like this nut, Macadamia. But, it is expensive. In fact, my mom said that it is the most expensive nuts. I also like other nuts like Picacu, but I mean Pistachio. Also gound nut especially Fisherman’s brand (not easy to find this brand). Pagoda and Cap Tangan also good. My mom is also a nut lovers.
For Malay food, I like some Malay food like Nasi Goreng Kampung and Nasi Paprik. Delicious! I used to eat Nasi Goreng Kampung for my lunch when I worked in Asli Mechanical last time. For “Tai Chow”, I like Singaporean MeeHoon. But, no easy to eat a good once. Not many places know how to make this. Even if they have, it is not easy to cook a tasty one. I also like Fish Head Noddle. And for these food I order, I will tell them, “No meat, please”.
For dessert, I like “Tong Sui”, especially “Bak Go Foo Chuk Yee Mai”, red bean, “Lin Chi Loong Gan”. And I also eat chocolate occassionally like bueno. I also like cookies especially Kjeldsens butter cookies and Famous Amos cookies.
Encouragement
When I have a healthy, tasty and economical meal, I feel encouraged and satisfied. Okay. if want to treat me (perasan), you don’t need to buy me expensive food like sushi or something similiar. Put away all the perfect atmosphere to makan (though quiet and comfortable atmosphere is good for fellowship). All I want is a food which meet these 3 criteria (healthy, tasty and economical meal), will surely encourages me. Since I don’t like to eat meat, the food I like is less expensive. So, it doesn’t take you a lot to encourage me (another perasan). By the way, donut (comic above) is not my favorite, but Garfield comic is.
What I don’t usually makan?
I guess they are those I see them as unhealthy food. Below are some list I can think of now:
- Cola drink, example Coke and Pepsi.
- Fast food, example KFC and McD.
- Meat, especially pork, beef, chicken, duck. (excluding fish). (Find out more why we should eat less meat)
- Instant noddle, example Cintan (I used to love it in the past).
- Junk food like potato chips, sweet, sour-sour thing.
Even though, I have excluded the above food in my daily diet, I still cling on to something unhealthy. Example coffee, nasi lemak and etc. For me, these unhealthy food able to enhance my mood, which I don’t know how to explain to you how it works. Maybe, I will improved from these in the future or I will still stick into them. Afterall, I think I have been keeping quite a lot of good healthy lifestyle diet and shouldn’t be too hard to myself.