Lok Lok- Malaysian Street Food

 Lok Lok, is all about  a van surrounded with food skewered on sticks, pots of boiling water and many types of sauce right. It is our version of street food-something that will lure you over, as you walk along the street. Good lok-lok stalls or pushcarts have so many types of sauces like tomyam, satay, super hot green chillies, sweet sauce and garlic and lime chillies sauce.My favourite is the satay sauce, can't blame me for being a true Malaysia, can you?
 A choice of delicacies are inserted to bamboo skewers, and once picked by the customer, is immersed into a pot of hot, boiling water to allow it to cook through. Dip your food into the array of sauces available, and that is the best way to enjoy our lok-lok.

This is rather hygienic way of eating, because there is one hard and fast rule- you cannot dip your food into the cooking pot more than once.  Cooking time depends on the kind of food, and don't worry, it comes with experience.  Don’t ever take a bite and dip it back into the water.YUCKSS....

An interesting tom-yam broth, to dip the food into. Hmm...not the traditional hot water.

My favourites are the quail eggs, century eggs with pickled ginger (both only need to be dip very quickly into the hot as they are already cooked) meat balls (takes a little longer). Other types of food also found are cockles, squids, more shellfishes, jelly fish, green vege, tofu, parts of the our pink friend like kidney, liver and stomach, a myriad of fishballs and other types of balls and some other unknown-floating-objects.

Fried Siew Bak, sprinkled with chilli powder.

Barbecued bacon & Fried Siew bak

 There are some stalls or push-carts that serves the barbecued and deep fried selection, in order to diversify. Above are the sinfully good barbecued bacon, and deep fried siew bak, sprinkled with chilli powder.

Peanut sauce(satay sauce) compliments the dish very well.

Otak Otak

Another exciting dish, was the otak-otak, which was fried and barbecued too. The otak-otak was wrapped with pandan leaves, and that added the wonderful aroma to it.

In summary, lok lok is truly a Malaysian street food, that can be enjoyed by everyone, and found everywhere (but non halal though).

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