Looking for foods to try and share a bit of my own culture. My family is cantonese viet and I grew up eating in a lot of traditional banquet hall restaurants. Usually these are dim sum menu for lunch and traditional shared foods for dinner. Most people have tried the common ones like siu mai (pork wrapper dumpling) and haw gow (shrimp rice dumpling) but my favorites are the uncommon ones like ngau zaap (beef offal) and baak wan fung zaau (pickled chicken feet).
Ngau zaap is basically braised brown sauce using off cuts, usually stomach and whatnot, with chinese radish. Its very savory, kinda like if you made an asian gravy.
Baak wan fung zaau is just chicken feet pickled in white vinegar. If you had pickled radish it’s essentially the same pickling and the chicken feet is gelatinous and a bit crunchy. You can also get them sometimes boneless since eating around the bones is kinda a pain. I really like pickled foods so this is one of my faves
My culture as in ethnicity? Probably hainanese chicken riceball, even though hainanese chicken rice originated from Singapore but the chinese here in Melaka just made it into a riceball, and riceball is delicious in ever culture.
My culture as a Malaysian? its kinda hard to choose, but Nasi Lemak, Roti Canai, and Hainanese Chicken Rice is basically the triforce of malaysian food. There’s also nyonya laksa, spicy thick curry broth topped with sambal, cockle, and tofu puff; prawn noodle where the broth are made from prawn shell(i think) and topped with more prawn; asam pedas, spicy and sour broth made from chili and asam keping, and cooked with various type of fish.
Those are just some of my fav, kinda hard to list down all of it