Heard about the name of Kelantan, I bet most of the comments are negative for this place eg conservative, islamic, dead boring place, no entertainment at all etc. Talk about my views for this place after 3 months stay, I do like the place in which the people here are more warm and friendly than those big cities like penang. For sure the culture here are a bit different from other states as it is the only states which follow the Islamic law strictly. There are a few differences that we need to adapt ourselves:
1. Learn to say kurang manis when you order any drinks. We need to adapt our taste buds here since most of the food especially the drink and kuih here are sweet in nature. Kelantanese food makes more use of coconut milk than anywhere else as well.
2. Most of the restaurants are closed on Friday especially during noon time, so be sure to check out the operation time if you don't hope to go bang on a 'closed' sign.
3. Most of the supermarkets and petrol station closed during the noon time around 1pm-2pm, so make sure you don't get closed inside the hypermarket.
4. There are no cinemas or any KTVs here, only a bowling and snooker court in KB mall. Other than that, you can choose to exercise, strolling along the beach, enjoying the sunrise and sunset at seasides.
We were considered quite lucky to have come here during fasting months as we got the chance to sample variety of local kuih-muih at pasar Ramadhan. Kelantan is famous for its kuih in which some of it can only be seen in Kelantan. Among those are Kuih Akok, Taik itik, jala mas etc...
This is Akok, which is the kuih that I prefer among others . It's make of egg without egg yolk part and preferably duck egg for less wrinkles haha....
Actually there are lotz more kuih that are only seen here, but I forget the names as there are really too many haha
Others famous in Kelantan is Nasi dagang, make up of white and red glutinous rice blended with coconut milk, so just consume a small portion you will be extremely filling.It is usually served with fish or curry chicken. ( Can try at Kuang Ning or white house in the morning)
The nasi kerabu in Kelantan is mostly white rice with local herbs, veges which is different from the dyed-blue rice in Terengganu. The colouring comes from a type of blue flower. This rice is usually served with fried fish, keropok, solok lada and budu.
I tried a Thai version of nasi kerabu which makes up of thirty plus of herbs mixed into a greenly looked rice.(Located at Jalan Wakaf Mek Zainab). Personally I don't really like the taste, it's a bit salty, but the asam laksa and laksam there are great!
This is the Laksam, for laksa, a must to taste!
Besides that, ayam percik is also one of the main attractions here. It's c
lipped using bamboo ang grilled with charcoal, dressed with coconut gravy. The most famous shop selling it is Yati ayam percik located at Jalan Long Yunus. But for me, it's just ordinary ayam percik haha..
Other special food are nasi berlauk, nasi sumatera ( must try !) and steam rice.
1. Learn to say kurang manis when you order any drinks. We need to adapt our taste buds here since most of the food especially the drink and kuih here are sweet in nature. Kelantanese food makes more use of coconut milk than anywhere else as well.
2. Most of the restaurants are closed on Friday especially during noon time, so be sure to check out the operation time if you don't hope to go bang on a 'closed' sign.
3. Most of the supermarkets and petrol station closed during the noon time around 1pm-2pm, so make sure you don't get closed inside the hypermarket.
4. There are no cinemas or any KTVs here, only a bowling and snooker court in KB mall. Other than that, you can choose to exercise, strolling along the beach, enjoying the sunrise and sunset at seasides.
We were considered quite lucky to have come here during fasting months as we got the chance to sample variety of local kuih-muih at pasar Ramadhan. Kelantan is famous for its kuih in which some of it can only be seen in Kelantan. Among those are Kuih Akok, Taik itik, jala mas etc...
This is Akok, which is the kuih that I prefer among others . It's make of egg without egg yolk part and preferably duck egg for less wrinkles haha....Actually there are lotz more kuih that are only seen here, but I forget the names as there are really too many haha
Others famous in Kelantan is Nasi dagang, make up of white and red glutinous rice blended with coconut milk, so just consume a small portion you will be extremely filling.It is usually served with fish or curry chicken. ( Can try at Kuang Ning or white house in the morning)
The nasi kerabu in Kelantan is mostly white rice with local herbs, veges which is different from the dyed-blue rice in Terengganu. The colouring comes from a type of blue flower. This rice is usually served with fried fish, keropok, solok lada and budu.
I tried a Thai version of nasi kerabu which makes up of thirty plus of herbs mixed into a greenly looked rice.(Located at Jalan Wakaf Mek Zainab). Personally I don't really like the taste, it's a bit salty, but the asam laksa and laksam there are great!
This is the Laksam, for laksa, a must to taste!
Besides that, ayam percik is also one of the main attractions here. It's c
lipped using bamboo ang grilled with charcoal, dressed with coconut gravy. The most famous shop selling it is Yati ayam percik located at Jalan Long Yunus. But for me, it's just ordinary ayam percik haha..Other special food are nasi berlauk, nasi sumatera ( must try !) and steam rice.
2 comments:
No lah.
The dyed blue also Kelantan. In fact much more common in Kelantan compared to white rice version. In fact summore, the dyed blue originated from Kelantan.
Terengganu just got Nasik Kerabu bcoz the Kelantanese introduced it there.
Hi,
Actually I thought of the same as you, just that after I came here, I has searched for some of the articles about nasi kerabu here and most of them didn't mention about the dyed blue rice here, they just said that they are famous in white here haha
So it make me confused already, neway thanks for your comment =p
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