Cheap And Healthy Chinese Mixed Rice In Malaysia

Pam Ko Fit Foodie

3 years ago

Inexpensive Chinese food is usually made up of a lot of oily, flour-based starchy sauces. If you look at Panda Express franchise foods or Western Chinese buffet foods, they are often coated in flour and then deep fried or stir fried in oil.

What’s even more unfortunate is that they are fried in old dark brown or black oil, which is unknown how many times they have been used. That is not enough, so it is coated with vinegar-flavored chili and sugar syrupy sauce. So, in the end, the original taste of the meat cannot be savored, and the stomach is filled with an artificial sweet and sour taste and full of flour mixture.

Junk food with an oriental concept, which is high in calories, is born. In fact, it can be difficult to decide which is worse compared to the junk food we know of most burgers, hotdogs and pizzas.

Of course, expensive and high-end Chinese restaurants or Chinese food in five-star hotels are completely different in terms of quality. The a la carte dishes will be prepared as ordered by customers, using a variety of fresh, high-quality ingredients.

And it is assumed that the used oil will be used and thrown away on a daily basis, or will only be used once or twice more cleanly. But the question is, how can anyone enjoy such an expensive Chinese cuisine so easily!

So, I am happy to introduce a very healthy Chinese food restaurant that anyone can eat without making a big hole in their pockets. This is a Chinese mixed rice(???) restaurant.

Basically, there are many such restaurants in neighborhoods where Chinese live, and even if there are not many Chinese, you can always find two or three mixed rice concept Chinese restaurants in any neighborhood in Malaysia.

It is similar to the concept of a Gisa Sikdang(????) restaurant type that can be seen in Korea, where taxi drivers go to eat in every neighborhood. I always get the impression that it is crowded with regulars, especially at mealtime, even here in this Malaysian mixed rice restaurant.

The Korean Gisa Sikdang(????) restaurant has either a buffet style or a la carte where you can choose a variety of food. However, Malaysian Chinese mixed rice is more like a buffet-style meal concept. Even so, it is not an unlimited buffet, and you only pay for the food you choose freely.

In a mixed rice or nasi campur restaurant, basically you choose any side dish you want to eat from among more than 50 side dishes prepared that day at the restaurant along with various meats such as chicken, pork, fish, beef, and lamb, and put it on a plate. Then, at the checkout counter at the end of the last row on which food trays are placed, you can pay according to the amount of food and number of items you have selected. Picking just a few from so many varieties is by no means easy.

In particular, when looking at freshly made steaming food at mealtime, everything looks incredibly delicious. In the end, it’s hard, but I choose one meat and two or three vegetables and put them on my plate. If possible, I choose a steamed tofu dish or a fluffy steamed egg dish with deliciously seasoned minced pork as a topping because I really like these. And, among the many green leafy ones, choose from crispy spinach, pakchoi, broccoli, eggplants or lightly stir-fried bitter gourd mixed with scrambled eggs, or various other stir-fried veggies including winter melon dishes with dry chili, fresh chilli, lots of other condiments.

The great thing about mixed rice is that the drinks are free. In other words, after paying the food, you can enjoy hot or cold Chinese tea or mineral water as self-service. Even better is that the daily soup is also included in the mixed rice price. On some days, the daily soup is filled with chicken bones with chicken meat attached, potatoes and carrots, so you can be full by just eating the free chicken soup.

In this way, the price usually does not exceed RM10, so it is only a little over two dollars in US dollars including meat and side dishes. Even people with limited pocket condition can choose a few side dishes from a variety of fresh vegetables such as steamed fish, chicken, and pork, which is definitely an attractive restaurant type to anyone.

In fact, the mixed rice literally means “economic rice ???” and I’m sure you would agree it is truly great value.

For those of you who are short of time, consider that buying and cooking various vegetables and preparing them with ingredients such as oil, garlic, ginger, green onion, and chilli powder can be quite time consuming, especially when you take into account all the washing up at the end.

In Malaysia, many people are happy to be able to fill up a meal by themselves at this kind of mixed rice or Malay Muslim nasi campur.

For one thing, this Chinese mixed rice is definitely not halal because pork is always available. So majority of the customers are Chinese, or non-Chinese who are happy with all kinds of pork meats, such as Korean, Japanese, Westerners, or Indians who can eat pork. ????????

Also, check out the story of Nasi Champur, Muslim Halal Mixed Rice. In particular, the halal food eaten at the mosque I wrote is one of my favorite local Malay-style dishes.

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