Origins of the Foodster

This website is the foodster’s guide to food. This means it is made, reviewed and arranged by normal people like you and me. By normal, we mean we haven’t gone to the school of cordon bléu, we are not trained to criticise like food intellectuals and we doubt any of our words would carry any weight in the high echelons of trained food connoisseurs.

We simply love to eat.

We have all been brought up in families whose social life revolves around eating. We all have stood on tippy toes, watching our grannies pound chillies to put into a hot curry; we have sneaked out with our fathers to nearby coffeeshops eating fat bread toasted on charcoal with kaya. We have begged our mothers for loose change so we can run after the ‘man on the motorbike’ so we can stuff our faces silly with ais krim potong, green cream buns and spun sugar. We’ve bribed siblings with promises of sweets and sat under storm drains with our honchos munching one thing or another.

The tradition of eating is in our blood.

And we now gather in our own social groups usually congregating in one eating place or another, to catch up, to talk shop; sign contracts even. Food is universal, you can talk to anyone about food, it bridges gaps, it breaks the ice and it has been witness to many romantic moments. We have made more lifelong friends through the love of food than we have through any other medium.

Most of us have suffered from indigestion at some point by eating too much and too fast. That is a mark of a true foodster.In fact, we count many kopitiam owners and restaurant people as our closest buddies since they have been witness to many of our life’s triumphs and sorrows. Want to celebrate? Let’s go makan. Want to drown your tears? Let’s get some food therapy. And we pass it on to our children. We don’t scrutinize food under a magnifying glass and tell you what’s wrong with it.

But we can certainly tell you what’s right with it.

This website is made possible by a bunch of people who are united in passion. The passion for food and the passion to share it with as many people as possible. We hope you enjoy eating it as much as we enjoy dishing it out to you.

About the FriedChillies Website

We're all about Malaysian food! If you don't know where to eat today, we're here to attempt to solve it for you here. There are new reviews every two weeks and the best thing is that we have nice people out there sharing their favourite makan spots with you. We have over five hundred of these spots. Not only that, there's a growing food community within friedchillies built through our discussion forum called 'kopitiam corner'. People were posting in all sorts of food related comments like where to find ostrich meat, the best cakes, italian restaurants etc. It get's kinda fun....

Basically, FriedChillies.Com 'The malaysian Food Guide' is dedicated to all food lovers out there. Sometimes you get bored of eating at the same places, sometimes you want to know where the best nasi ayam is, sometimes you just want to try something new.

This website is designed in such a way that food lovers can know great makan places around town. You can even tell the foodster of good places to eat so that this can be shared with other food lovers.

Don't know where to eat? Tired of eating out at the same places? We've got over one hundred fifty local reviews that may just solve your dilemma. If that's not enough, try our 'your suggestions' column where food lovers out there have shared over six hundred of their favourite makan places with you. Thanks to those who wrote in. DO you have favourite makan place? Why let us have all the fun doing reviews? Have a try yourself by writing a few words on your favourite makan spot in our 'you review!' column! Who knows.. Somebody else may share with you another great place to makan your favourite food....

Visit our kopitiam corner for hot discussions on the best cheesecake in town, steaks, etc posted by you fellas!. Talk about any food you want! So if you are looking for places to makan with friends, family or even alone, try some friedchillies.com! We update the site twice a month with new reviews ... Happy 'Makaning'....