I hope I could visit Cape Town soon so I could try the food. The food looks good. If only the COVID-19 pandemic is under control, the travel restrictions ease and international travel resumes right now.
@@desiatikaa4750eww stop being so “MENDONIA” ! Some of the malays from indonesia and Melaka (one of the states in Malaysia) were punished by Poland because they were against the colonization and due to that Poland brought them to South africa..learn history kidoo!
Greetings from Indonesia to Cape Town Malays. Cape Malays are descendants of Javanese people brought by the Dutch to South africa during the 18th century... "kita sedulur" (we are family in Javanese)
The rice dish looked really tasty. Totally love combos like that. It's neat seeing some food from a cuisine that's pretty unknown in other parts of the world. Nice one! - Thomas
Very good your video. I am from Colombia , I want learn do speak english. Thank you for the subtitles ;D Your english is of United Kingdom or American?
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Definitely good picks. The Sago pudding is nice and sweet, the Malva pudding is more of a winter dessert as the pudding itself is dense and heavy. The koeksister traditionally made on Sunday morning with a cup of coffee. Thanks for visiting my hometown guys
Thank you very much! We love our time in Cape Town. It is one of our favorite cities in the world to visit. The desserts we all wonderful. Thanks for sharing when they're typically eaten.
That's not a koeksister - that is a koesiester. A koeksister is of Afrikaner origin and is a plain, plaited piece of dough, deep-fried and dunked in a thick syrup. A koesiester is a Cape Malay staple - deep fried, spicy doughnut (aniseed, cardamon, cinnamon, ginger, dried naartjie (clementine) peel) which is lightly dunked in boiling sugar syrup and then sprinkled with shredded coconut. Sometimes the koesiester is just dunked, and then topped with a sticky and sweet boiled coconut filling.
Awesome videos guys, I am a big fan, using your videos to plan my trip around Europe and Asia next year. Went to Biesmiellah Restaurant a couple years ago, on my first trip out of the states, which ignited my travel bug. Fond memories! Thanks for including prices as well, very helpful, keep it up!
Thanks for the reply! Heading to the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Sweden, Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Montenegro, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, watching your Bosnia vids as they come out, very helpful super excited about all the food. Sorry for listing them all but you asked lol. Thanks also for being yourselves and not trying too hard to be someone else like many of the other vloggers. Stay dorky!
Samuel and Audrey - Travel and Food Videos I’m from Singapore, of Chinese ethnicity (much like 75% of the population) but we are pretty much surrounded by Malay speaking countries and Malay food is readily available everywhere in Singapore, so I’m quite familiar with Malay cuisine. To be honest though if anything it seems that Cape Malay cuisine is more similar to Indian cuisine. Roti is commonly associated with Indian cuisine in both Malaysia and Singapore rather than Malay cuisine; Lassi is definitely Indian. The mutton curry could be either Indian or Malay depending on the flavour and spices used (its quite difficult to put into words exactly how it is different but an Indian curry is quite different from a Malay or Chinese curry in Singapore / Malaysia in terms of taste. An Indian curry has a strong lingering aftertaste whereas a Malay curry is smoother in flavour to me). Bobotie really looks like something that could be traditionally Malay or Indian as well (much like a briyani dish) but there really isn’t a sweet rice dish in Southeast Asia. None of the desserts are really Malay either but sago is oftentimes used as a dessert ingredient in traditional Malay cuisine.
Tengkudin. Jelai While Philippines is indeed considered part of Nusantara (ie Maritime Southeast Asia), the Philippines is culturally quite different from say Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei which are far closer to one another. Also the languages of these 3 countries are mutually intelligible with one another but not Tagalog / Filipino which belongs to the same language family but is mutually unintelligible with Malay / Indonesian. Food culture wise, I find Filipino cuisine to be very different as well. Pork was likely the main protein of choice for the ancient Austronesian peoples, evident in the prevalence of entire roasted pigs on a spit in both Philippine and Balinese cuisine; but pork is considered haram in Islam and hence owing to the widespread influence of Islam in western Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, pork is no longer consumed by most Malay Muslims and Indonesians; it is no longer a mainstay menu item in Malay and mainstream Indonesian cuisine. There also seems to be a stronger Indian influence in Malay / Indonesian cuisine with curries and such, whereas Filipino cuisine seems to exhibit a stronger Chinese influence with dishes such as adobo (cooked in vinegar and soy sauce), lumpia, sinigang which is a sour tamarind stew and of course lechon (roasted pig on a spit) etc.; in Singapore and Malaysia at least, there is an overlap between traditional Malay food and Indian Muslim food and you’ll find many people of both ethnic backgrounds dining at these Indian Muslim establishments all the time. In Singapore and Malaysia there is also Peranakan food which is a blend of Chinese and Malay food and I would really recommend people to try as well :) It’s quite unique to this part of the world
"The samosa is too small". I felt Sam's sadness :'( lol The entire meal looks fantastic btw 😋 I've never thought to go to Cape Town but I believe now it's in my go-to-list 😍
Hi Guy's, Nice to see Sam's shirt matching the colors of the buildings and menu... ha ha ! All that food looked delicous; but you should have dunked the donut in the custard ! Jim.
I lived in South Africa a long time ago... The only things I remember about South Africa: Pick n Pay Simba Chips Table Mountain Oh! I tried a calzone in Port Elizabeth once, and it was the best thing I've ever tasted!
South Indian food- South India- Kerala www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/top-10-foods-try-kerala Tamilnadu www.hungryforever.com/20-places-that-are-famous-for-their-foods/ Andhra food.. www.hungryforever.com/20-places-that-are-famous-for-their-foods/ Karnataka cuisine www.vegrecipesofindia.com/recipes/karnataka-cuisine/
Just saw this now. Pity. The food looks good but I have never seen Bobotie served like this. Normally the bobotie is made in a large tray and a slice is served with rice on the side. What helps the dish is the chutney or achar which I see was provided but you did not use. Same with the sambals which you did not eat with the curry. You did not really get the full effect of the dishes. Btw I have been eating Cape Malay for over 70 years.
Sam...you are still in love with those Indian polos...don't you!! :P and I see there is so much Indian influence in South African foods-samosa,lassi,puidding,roti...coool :) greetings for Audrey
Thank you very much! My Indian polos are my favorite shirts I own right now. I'd love to get some more but not sure what cities in India have them aside from the places I visited.
Sam.....I can assure you about Kolkata with plenty of t-shirts....though you might have missed last time.. :P you can get some more next time of-course..good collections in Goa too...but let Audrey have some too.. :D
Sounds and looks great. Did you try the Bobotie? It's a very well know delicious Cape Malay pie made with minced meat. I remembered trying it in either Stellenbosch or Franschhoek when we went to visit some wineries. Right now its fall in South Africa and I am not sure if it's still good time to visit the beach resorts along the Garden Route which is also nice. Did you go to the top of Table Mountain yet? Enjoy your stay in Cape Town. BTW, I arrived from Lima, Peru this past Monday.
Thank you! Ah, cool to hear you're in Lima. Hope you have a great time. Ah, we did get to try that and also the Table Mountain trip we did will be in our Cape Town guide coming out soon :)
Oh my goodness you're in South Africa? I've always wanted to go there. Those dishes all look fantastic, I love that ground beef and rice dish, what was it called again? I didn't quite catch it. Those desserts tho 😮😗 my goodness I would ruin my diet in a big way if I was there lol.
This is the explanation according to Wikipedia: "Origin of name and recipe[edit]Bobotie appears to be a variant of Patinam ex lacte, a dish documented by the ancient Roman writer Apicius, which comprises layers of cooked meat, pine nuts, and seasoned with pepper, celery seeds and asafoetida. These were cooked until the flavours had blended, when a top layer of egg and milk was added. When the latter had set, the dish was ready to be served.[3] C. Louis Leipoldt, a South African writer and gourmet, wrote that the recipe was known in Europe in the seventeenth century.[4]The origin of the word Bobotie is contentious. The Afrikaans etymological dictionary claims that the probable origin is the Malayan word boemboe, meaning curry spices.[5] Others think it to have originated from bobotok,[6] an Indonesian dish which consisted of totally different ingredients.[7] The first recipe for bobotie appeared in a Dutch cookbook in 1609.[7] Afterwards, it was taken to South Africa and adopted by the Cape Malay community.[2] It is also made with curry powder leaving it with a slight "tang".[8] It is often served with Sambal.[9] The dish has been known in the Cape of Good Hope since the 17th century, when it was made with a mixture of mutton and pork."
Loving all your cpt videos! Thank you for all the great new ideas of places to eat at that we would never really think of going usually while living in cpt!! Just a suggestion would be to decrease the zooming in and out, its making me pretty dizzy.
Thank you! Yeah, it is a really cool fusion cuisine and it definitely has some strong Indian roots I would say. Hahaha...I do need to regain my taste bud confidence...thanks :)
Abhijit Pattanayak Yeah, Malay's cultures and foods influenced by Indian. We were once Hindu before converting to Islam. We even adopted Indian's style for our marriage like the use of Henna 😉
This was very interesting to watch I am half Indonesian and just discovered about cape malay, interesting to see all the foods looks so good I see a lot of Indian influences, haven't seen much Indonesian influences in the food. I hope one day to visit South Africa and try these food myself ❤love from London
It tastes nothing like Indian Briyani though :) Briyani isn't sweet, it's hard to explain the flavours of Cape Malay cuisine besides that it's a lot of sweet-spicy flavours
Now I get so confuse with my own race ...I’m Malay but I don’t see any similarities between cape Malay n Malaysian Malay ... the foods mostly influenced by Indian this is weird
actually malay in south africa was not malaysian but they came from indonesia, batavia (jakarta), java and makasar south sulawesi. their race are malay so that's why they called cape malay as race because 200 million more of indonesian people today are malay race.but this foods are totally is not malay foods, this foods are indian foods
The foods are a fusion of malay and indian foods, also mixed with some European and local African, since we cape malay people draw our heritage back to those parts of the world.
It is also An indian Dessert You have eaten Before Rasmalai The cake is made up of Cottage cheese dough And Cooked in sugar syrup The custard is Rabdi Which is made up of Milk Cooked With Cardamom Powder Until it is thick You
Ye Food Kya Cheez Hai excuse me but there is no cottage cheese / any cheese in either one of those dishes,and the custard is normal custard which they might have added a cinamon stick ,depends , but there isn't any cardamom in that custard
@@samuelandaudrey Just kidding guys. I'm really happy to see people discovering South Africa. Our country is such an underrated country, that has actually contributed so much to the international community, but these are little known facts. I'm a Capetonian, and I hope the experience was as good as Cape Town could offer. I also hope that you guys had the opportunity to have a really authentic braai (cook out) with locals, not a generic commercialised bbq. They're good, but there's nothing like being with local people, and having that real homely feel of the South African version of a cook out. The food and most importantly the company, is what makes a South African cook out complete. And yes, I say cook out, because my American friends told me that their experience of a braai, was exactly what a cook out in America is like. Good food, good drinks, and excellent company.
rotitelor hi actually it's dangerous depending on where in south africa you intend to visit, like on the out skirts of the major cities it becomes less safe, honestly i am a south african i live farely on the out skirt of capetown and i have never been robbed or anything of the sort, so it's quite safe, but beeing a different country i suggest you still watch your back, and never leave any valuables laying on the seats of your vehicle where it can be snatched easily.
My suggestion for travel in South Africa isn't that different from general safety advice we'd give for anywhere else. You need to be aware of your surroundings, don't flash obvious signs of wealth and be more careful at night in terms of just randomly walking around. We felt relatively safe in Cape Town.
