Hi I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate. Today we're in Kuala
Lumpur and we're at Jalan Bellamy and we're about to indulge in a gigantic ikan
bakar or grilled fish feast. There are amazing delicious smells wafting through the air
and there's some incredible looking seafood on the grill we can't wait to
get in. Let's eat.
I'm so excited out the front of this restaurant there are these massive
pans and there's just seafood piled into them being grilled and tossed and the
smells are just absolutely sensational. We've ordered a ton of stuff, we've got some
sotong which is squid, we ordered some stingray which I'm very excited
to try, I asked the lady which was the nicest fish and she pointed to this one so
we grabbed one of those and then there's also a nasi campur or a mixed rice
sort of area in the restaurant as well so you get a plate of rice and
you can load different curries and vegetables on your plate so we've got
a ton of different vegetables here and we've got two types of dipping sauces
I've gotta get in and try some of this stuff
I'm going to start with the sotong or the squid, it looks like it's a huge squid and it looks
quite tender, I'm going to dip it in this chilli sauce, well I think it's chilli sauce I can
see some chilli flakes and give that a go. Wow. Squid like that I'm often a
little bit hesitant about ordering because it just looks like it's going to be so tough
but this is not at all. It is so tender and that sauce has a real fiery kick but it's
very very flavoursome. It's definitely chilli, there's some green stuff in there so maybe like
coriander, if you know what this sauce is please let us know in the comments
below because that's superstar it's so good. I've got to try this
stingray it's been wrapped in I think banana leaf and so I assume that the fragrance
of the banana leaf as it's been cooking has just infused that stingray. Stingray is a funny
type of fish. I've only ever had it once. We had it in Penang and
it was cooked in sort of a mild sauce and there was just something about the texture that I wasn't
100% taken with so I'm very excited about trying this style of stingray
a lot of you have really raved about trying Ikan Pari, I think? Pari is stingray?
in Malay? So lets give this a go. It's almost a gelatinous flesh so I'm just going to scrape away
a bit of it and it's got these big bones
I'm just going to eat it straight with no sauces
Wow there's something about the way that that has been cooked that's completely
different to the first time that we had it, it's got a really smoky charred
flavor, the texture of the fish isn't gluggy even though it looks a little bit mushy
it's got a a real beautiful soft bite to it. I'm going to try another bit and
give this dark dark sauce a go. It looks like it's made out of soy, there's some red
onion or shallots, some chilli there's a lime in there. Give that a dunk.
Hmmm that sauce is quite sweet and it's completely different to that fiery chilli sauce
that's really really beautiful. I'm going to try the fish the skin on it
looks amazing so crispy but before I try it I want to tell you guys about coming to
Jalan Bellamy it was crazy we got an Uber here and it's very very
close to the central station but excuse me I tried some of that chilli sauce that
Sheena had on the squid and it's sitting in my throat, it's very close to the central
station except you feel like you're in the middle of the country there's just
these like skinny windy roads through the forest and the grasslands it's very very
cool and it does feel like we've come to like a whole new world it doesn't feel like
we're in KL it's really exciting and a fun place to come
I highly doubt public transport would get you here so get a grab or an uber but
really cheap and easy. I've got to try this fish it's just begging to be
eaten. I'll just grab a little bit off the bone I'm going to try it naked, it
looks like it's got some sort of chilli sauce all over it from where it's been
cooked so I'm not going to add to that for now
Oh
oh the flavour, I love that! So it's coated in that chilli sauce but it
tastes like fish and I love that with fish I hate it when a sauce or condiment just
takes over and ruins the fish flavour because it's so subtle and this is a really soft
white fish with a beautiful subtle flavour, oh the texture
that is amazing. That is a great well it's my second bite because I tried some
of the squid off camera with that chilli sauce that got stuck in my throat but
as far as on the camera goes that is an amazing first bite to kick off this
meal this environment is amazing you can hear the band playing over there
people are piling in because it's right on lunchtime I'm so excited for the rest
of what we've got on this table. I am loving the look of all these salads I
went a bit crazy because every dish looked so vibrant and appealing but before I
get into this I just wanted t to say thank you to all of you who have a recommended
places to us to eat in KL and in Malaysia and dishes that we need to try
we are all loving the suggestions so please keep them coming, pop
comments below, we love to hear from you and whilst you're down there hit that
subscribe button if you're enjoying our food and travel videos. But now it's time to
get into this. Wow. So I've got this salad which look likes
mung beans, carrots there's some spring onion, shallots, chilli, I'll load up a bit of that with
some rice. The rice is buried I can't even see it because there's just so much on this
plate
Mmmm, so crisp. So refreshing, quite subtle but
because the flavours of the sauces are so punchy and bold and we don't want to
overshadow the seafood, like these side dishes are going to be perfect
I've also got some salads here, various herbs, grated coconut I think, give those a go
that's fresh, there's a burst of flavour from all those herbs and then I also got a cooked vegetable dish
it's got some melon, I think some rice vermicelli and some greens, it looks a
little bit like water spinach, give that a go
mmmm really really tender and they were wallowing in this milky-white
sauce which I assume must be some sort of coconut milk sauce oh and I just ladled it all
over the rice. This is just one epic meal. This is awesome this meal is so good the
thing that's really caught me is this stingray it's amazing like Sheena said we've
had it one time before and it was a bit so so that was in Penang but this time
unreal, the texture is incredible it's actually more like the texture of
meat then fish to me or seafood, it's got a real fatty feeling skin and then a
real tender flesh underneath that and quite divided it does have a really
interesting bone structure with all these back and forth bones so we're
going to have to figure out the best method to tackle that I'm adoring this it is all so
good. And this black sauce with chillies lime, shallots- unreal. Just seafood doe this way
like on the grill on in this case in those big pans, it just lets the
flavour of what you're eating, the true flavour shine through. It's phenomenal. I'm loving this!
That was so good, we had lunch at Kak Jat Ikan Bakar and we're walking away now and the smells are
just wafting everywhere that I almost wanna go back inside and have another meal we
had a lot of food but because it was so light I totally feel like I could go back
in do it all again. So good. So good, we are going to head off now
for a bit of a rest but then we're meeting up with some other YouTubers for
dinner so we will pick this up at a mamak. So we're at a mamak and we
are with the awesome, awesome Mark and Amanda from The NYC Couple
these guys quit their 9 to 5's and they are traveling the world so check out their account I'll link it up there, there, I never know where it goes.
Wherever! Hi guys!
Hey how's it going? Nice to meet you!
We are not going to get into the food but stay tuned because we will be filming a full mamak video
sometime soon thank you so much to those subscribers who
recommended Jalan Bellamy and Ikan Bakar to us we had an amazing amazing
time. If you have any more recommendations pop them in the comments
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thumbs up if you did and we'll see you next time we hope we inspired you to eat
and explore like a traveler, not a tourist, jumpa lagi!