The local cuisine has been replenished for centuries with dishes from Chinese, Indian, Thai, and even Portuguese culinary traditions. It is surprisingly syncretic and original today. You can find individual Indian, Thai, and European restaurants, European fast-food chains like McDonald's, and Chinese restaurants here. Chinese restaurants are especially plentiful here. The proximity to Singapore, where a lot of people come from China, contributes to this. In general, the local cuisine is quite spicy. Therefore, it will be better to ask for a reduction in the number of spices before ordering an unknown dish. Rice is very popular with local chefs. It is used for cooking almost all the dishes. It is called the same as in Indonesia – Nasi. Interestingly, everything else is often referred to simply as lauk here. This can be translated as "supplement to the rice". You should not be surprised that rice is not only served as a main dish with additives and used as a side dish here but it is also added as one of the ingredients in many desserts. Garlic, ginger, galangal, lemongrass, cinnamon, kaffir, cumin, and cloves are most commonly used as spices. Pork is used much less often than chicken, lamb, fish or seafood in local restaurants. There is a prosaic explanation for this. Most Malays practice Islam. It forbids eating pork. But this does not mean that local chefs do not use pork meat in their dishes at all. There are many Buddhists, Christians, and atheists in Bahru.
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