Malaysian restaurants in USA
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Peninsula
Malaysian dishes - including achat (tangy vegetable salad in peanut dressing), red curry hot pot, spicy crab and fish in banana leaves - rock the palate in this contemporary restaurant.
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Nyonya
One of very few Malaysian joints in the city, Nyonya is one of the best. The warm, honey-hued wood and exposed-brick interior is soothing – as are the various noodle soups, casseroles and roti canai (crispy pancakes). The mango shrimp, baby-oyster omelet and steamed fish in the house-special Nyonya sauce are all solid options; vegetarians, though, should go warned: there’s not much on the menu for you (many ‘veggie’ options are made with fish), and the menu is studded with frogs’ legs and fish heads.
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Fatty Crab
Spicy Malaysian street food is jazzed up with a New York twist at Fatty Crab, known as much for its affordable prix fixe lunch and popular happy hour (drinks half price) as for its chili crab, Singaporean black-pepper mussels, barramundi grilled on banana leaf, short-rib rendang braised with kaffir lime and coconut, chicken claypot and fatty duck with toasted tamaki. There are 20 outdoor seats, plus a long steel bar in the spacious main room.
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Malaysia Kopitiam
If you are familiar with Malaysian food, this is as close as you get to a Penang street stall in Washington. If you’re not, may we introduce you to: laksa, bowls of noodle soup cut with coconut milk and pillowy chunks of chicken, and spiced dry fish, and anything cooked in a banana leaf. It’s all next door to Camelot, DC’s most (in) famous stripper bar.
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Penang
Serves Malaysian fare in a festive, tiki-bar atmosphere. Some items are listed with the admonition 'Ask your server for advice before you order!!!' Fortunately, most of Penang's menu items are delightfully different, but not too intimidating. Regulars rave about the roti canai, crispy pancakes with a curry dipping sauce.
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Jaya
Thirty types of noodles, topped with tofu, vegetables, shrimp, spicy chilies, pork, beef and chicken are the main staple at Jaya, although its also got house specials like coconut fried rice, basil stir-fried beef and fish soup.
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Satay Malaysian Grille
Swank family-owned restaurant cooks up traditional multi-ethnic Malay favorites, from peanut-sauced satay and spicy laksa noodle soup to Nyonya specialties.
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