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Malay Thai Famous Cuisine
- Price Range:
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$
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
10 reviews for Malay Thai Famous Cuisine
10 reviews in English
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Review from Wendy C.
10/27/2010
Better food than Restoran Malaysia. Their Curry Laksa is awesome, so many flavours, so tasty, just thinking of it makes me drool. The wait time can be a little long-ish, but there is a reason because every dish is made fresh from scratch.
My wish list - if they can add a few good Penang dishes to the menu like asam laksa. I am allowed to be greedy, no? -
Review from WaYnE c.
Maple, ON
5/8/2011
No one ever told me being a Yelper requires immunity to EXTREME chili-spices. When I met with a few best-of-the-best Yelpers at Malay Thai, intuition told me to begin sweating and blowing smoke out my ears in preparation. 3.5'd
These Yelpers are serious with their scoville spice intake as they snort peppers inbetween their exponential reviews. If you guys told me earlier, I would prepare by eating spicier chilis, coat my tongue in oil, and bring some milk. My status is spice-sniffer in-training...
Curry Laksa EXTRA Spicy($6.25)
I tasted the thick rich curry with coconut milk hint and was flavourful until tongue starts tingling. Ingredients top the plastic bowl and I was surprised that the bowl didn't begin to melt. Again the dreaded yellow noodle is not one of my preferential variety(personal taste) and the spice level prevents me from chugging the liquid gold ramen-style.
Penang EXTRA Spicy Gulai Sauce($7.48)
Looks like Malaysia version of Gumbo. Chicken, Okra served with plain white rice. Another deadly dish and from the looks of the rice, it could have been warming for awhile which for some reason I always prefer it when it's for soaking up liquid material. Fresh solid granules don't have that same absorbancy.
I wish I had some bread, naan, or a choice of noodles that can soak up the sauces. Nothing wrong with Malay Thai at all, simply just not my cup of curry.Listed in: 3.5 ***Stars***, Sing Ma Thai
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Review from Kwoky L.
12/29/2010
I have to disagree with a few Yelpers who said Malay Thai is better than Restoran Malaysia. Although I prefer the latter, Malay Thai would probably be my "go to place" for a quick Malaysian fix.
For a tiny corner in a food court, the number of selections are not bad at all. I ordered their nasi lemak and char kuey teow and they were decently good. However, they lack a certain depth of flavor or "oomph" factor that I was looking for. Beware that their portions are huge and you will get more than what you paid for.
Will definitely be back for more. -
Review from B W.
11/9/2011
Remember the fake org**m (bleeped out to escape Yelps filters :) ) scene in When Harry Met Sally --- well I almost recreated that scene the first time I tried the Curry Laksa from MTFC. By the way, I am not a Malaysian food neophyte. I am ex-Malaysian. I have visited Malaysian restaurants from California, New York City and up to Toronto. This Laksa is one of the best. So deep and rich, so flavorful, so yummy, my mouth is watering as I am writing this review.
I strongly recommend you try it. -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
Who would have thought a little food stall inside First Markham Place would have serve such tasty food??!! Thanks for fellow yelpers! If not, I would not have know what I been missing...
The prices here are so reasonable. Most of them comes with a free drink.
I was there on a weekday! Yes this place is just as busy on a weekday lunch hour. I order the Curry Laksa extra spicy ($6.25). I have to tell you I waited over 15 minutes for my order. There were all these people that placed their food order before me.
The kitchen prepared everything fresh. Nothing are pre made under heated lamps. And the wait is so worth it!
The soup based has the perfect spiciness, the flavour so rich, so intense.. so much flavour! Ok the coconut milk is fattening but it is calories/fat that worth it!
The free drink is a cold sweetened barley drink. OK, it sounded little weird but trust me it tasted good! Really light and a good compliment to spicy food! And it suppose to be healthy...
And I know it is not lady like to stuff your face in a soup bowl in a busy food court in a popular Chinese mall where you might bump into old flames, but the food makes it all worthwhile!
I can't wait to go back to try other things on the menu.. The Penang Pawn noodles extra spicy looks interesting!!
They accepts Cash only! -
Review from Erwin M.
4/18/2010
What a find this place is. All this time I've been trying to fill a SG/Malaysian food void that is inexpensive,I would never have guessed that a small counter in a chinese food court could do just that.
While we've only tasted one dish, the hokkien mee, my wife's immediate reaction is, "I can't believe we've been going to Restoran Malaysia just to have these stuff". Obviously the food here isn't as good, and the serving isn't as large, but at half the price minus the tip, the food is decent enough for me to opt for this place 9 times out of 10 if i needed a fix.
I'd be surprised if I find anything similar and cheaper. While I say that I'm thinking to myself that nasi lemak here is $6.25 and this is one of the cheapest meals you can get in Singapore at maybe $2 average but I'm gladly gonna let this one slide.
Some items listed in the Menu: Hainanese chicken rice, kway teow, laksa, hokkien mee, hot and sour soup, Nasi Lemak... I can't believe a menu in a food court of all places has gotten me so excited to come back.
food - 3, prices - 5 = rating 4 -
Review from Lynda W.
Toronto, ON
10/6/2008
You don't see too many fast food thai places! They are just recently starting to pop up in fast food places in the GTA. This Malay Thai place is in the First Markham Place food court. It's one of a kind goodness. Some of the dishes I recommend are the Tom Yum soup - you get a super big bowl, the roti with curry sauce - loves it, and the coconut rice - which I eat plain! I love coconut rice!
As far as fast food is concerned, this place is pretty darn good! It beats Spring Rolls any day of the week! -
Review from D T.
3/19/2010
Food here is fantastic!!! Prices definitely reasonable. Their Malay coffee is just flat out excellent.
Suggest coming early as it can get full pretty quickly! -
Review from Jerry C.
Markham, ON
2/28/2010 1 Check-in Here
If you like Malaysian food at a good price this is the place for you. Located in the food court of a popular Chinese mall in Markham, First Markham Place, this little food stall is incredibly busy on the weekends. Such is a testament to their authentic Malaysian food, economy prices and consistent quality. This is some of the best south-east Asian food you can find in the GTA served in a Styrofoam container.
Try the curry laksa noodles that's positively brimming with two types of noodles (egg - yellow thick and rice - white thin), chicken, fish slices, veggies and bean curd. All swimming in a beautiful curry and coconut milk spicy soup that literally makes my mouth water thinking about it. Several true Malaysians have commented to me that this particular dish is very authentic.
The curry and rice dishes are incredible as well. Try the yellow curry chicken with rice that also features the smooth and creamy flavour of coconut milk. Feel more like a noodle dish? Try the "chow kwai teow", which features sliced beef and veggies mixed with the broad flat rice noodles and stir-fried to perfection in a dark egg-y sauce. There are many items on the menu that are worth trying like the Penang "Ha Mein" (shrimp noodle soup) and their variety of other curries.
All items are well under $10 and party sized trays are available, simply ask. I am in total agreement of Lynda W., the quality (if not presentation) of these dishes far exceed the faux-Asian counterparts such as Spring Rolls. A more appropriate authenticity comparison would be with the superb sit-down restaurant, Restauran Malaysia, with which Malay Thai stacks up nicely without even considering the significant difference in price.
Give it a try, you will not be disappointed. -
Review from Joan L.
Mississauga, ON
9/28/2010 1 photo
I frequent FMP at least once a month and will almost always (99% of the time) order up my favorite dishes at Malay Thai. Just a heads up that I am from Singapore and I know the difference b/t the wannabes and the authentic hawkers.
Malay Thai is authentic. I meant to pick up a menu and list the items that I usually order but forgot to do so. I will next month.
So for now, I will discuss their
1) Wat Tan Hor Fun - my fav dish. Seriously!!! Best in GTA. They stir fry their noodles first so it has their pan-fried taste and texture. And they use the RIGHT kind of flat broad rice noodles (thank you!). Their sauce is amazing and true to the core. And the ingredients are plentiful (pork / shrimp / choy sum). Finally, this is not too spicy for the HK folks. Though as you can tell from my pictures, I like my chilli. And yes, green chilli goes with this dish. Please don't use belachan.
2) Belachan Chicken - first time ordering this and loved it! I hate deep frying anything at home so I welcomed this dish. You can totally taste the shrimp paste in the chicken (which was fried perfectly crisp yet tender). The belachan (minus shrimp paste) goes with this dish perfectly. Would reorder. Only caveat: could totally feel my arteries popping as the oil oozed down my fingers. I am soooo gonna pay for this.
Note: you get a cup of barley drink with this. Ahhh ... childhood memories ... . It is sweet, healthy, and a perfect complement to the spicy food I was digesting.
For the record, the price is very reasonable for this sort of cuisine (hard to find) and the service is great (very friendly). My only caution: I have been disappointed with their Hokkien Mee and Johore Mee. So you might want to skip that.
