Top 10 Must-Eat Malaysian Dessert

The best way to end a meal is with dessert! Make some room for your tummy and try out these fantastic Malaysian desserts.

1. Kuih Seri Muka

A two-layered dessert with steamed glutinous rice forming the bottom half and a green custard layer made with pandan juice.

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2. Apam Balik

Made from a mixture of flour, eggs, sugar, baking soda, coconut milk and water and contains filling such as peanut granules and sweetcorn kernels.

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3. Cendol

An iced sweet dessert that contains droplets of green rice flour jelly, coconut milk and palm sugar syrup.

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4. Keropok lekor

A traditional Malay fish cracker snack seasoned with salt and sugar. It is rather greyish in colour and gives off a strong fishy taste

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5. Ang ku kueh

A small round or oval shaped pastry with soft sticky glutinous rice flour skin wrapped around a sweet filling in the centre.

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6. Ondeh ondeh

A boiled rice cake, stuffed with a sweet filling of liquid palm sugar (gula jawa/merah/melaka), covered in coconut bits.

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7. Kuih lapis

Made using colourful layered soft rice flour pudding that is steamed gradually with layers added in alternating order to create the ‘layered’ effect.

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   • Live: My Thoughts on Kueh Lapis  

8. Egg tart

A kind of custard tart with an outer pastry crust, filled with delicious egg custard and baked.

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9. Tau fu fa

Made with very soft tofu. Served either with a clear sweet syrup alone, or in a sugar syrup infused with pandan or palm-syrup (Gula Melaka)

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   • Silken Tofu (豆腐花）- Kuala Lumpur 2013  

10. Dodol

A sweet dessert made from palm sugar (Gula Melaka), coconut milk, jaggery, and rice flour, and it has a sticky and thick texture.

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