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Malaysian Street Food - $100 KING LOBSTER + Eating Sago Worms in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo!!
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Malaysian Street Food – $100 KING LOBSTER + Eating Sago Worms in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo!!



Welcome to MALAYSIA in 2022!! This time I’m on BORNEO in East Malaysia’s Sabah state capital : Kota Kinabalu! We’re kicking things off at the Donggongon Weekly Market home to Kadazan traditional cuisine such as “butod” or sago worms. Not for the faint of heart, these grubs can be enjoyed cooked or raw like me.

After our morning at the market a proper lunch was in order. Sabah’s iconic Ngiu Chap or beef noodle was on the menu for today at Penampang Ngiu Chap.

To visit Kota Kinabalu without sampling the seafood would be a sin. This city may very well be home to the CHEAPEST seafood I’ve ever seen. How about 2kg fresh King Lobster, a football sized coconut clam, seaweed salad and a couple hand-fulls of scallops for $100. Have it cooked anyway you like, its guaranteed to taste good. Unless of course your coconut clam also turns into a rubber tire when cooked.

Video Chapters:
0:00-0:45 Intro
0:46-7:23 Donggongon Market
7:24-9:32 Penampang Ngiu Chap
9:33-19:36 Waterfront Seafood Market
19:37-20:03 Outro
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40 Comments

  6. engr100 viki

    my best bro luke & my best sis thank you for your huge respect against cpec friendship countries lot of love from your best bro viki 💙

  8. BTL

    Bro , u ought to eat the KamHeong fried lobster or other seafood with rice to complete the asian food taste 😆 . Eating dish alone will be kinda heavy taste on it especially salty /buttery /oily. Gotta mix it with rice , Malaysian like to mix

  14. Khang Do

    The coconut clam’s meat inherently has a very tough texture. In Vietnam we cut them into very thin slices and either stir fry them or make them into a salad.
    Very nice video.

  19. Keeley Tim

    Kota Kinabalu is not that hard to pronounce! How about learning the languages of the places you visit for something more than superficial experiences.

  20. Laurie Penner

    Thanks for bringing back memories of my visit to Kota Kinabalu! It was a weird trip. I went with my Chinese Malaysian friend and spent the whole trip doing family things with a bunch of overbearing aunts who treated us both like we were 12 ( I was nearly 30 with a full time office job and a mortgage). There were all these complex Chinese family dynamics happening that I couldn't quite grasp and I never quite knew what was going on because of the language barrier. Oh, we're at a Mandarin language church service? Dinner at a cousin's house? A stranger's wedding reception? OK! I barely got to see any sights but it felt like a pretty intimidating, possibly unsafe place to travel without a local, so it may have been for the best, and we did have some incredible meals!

  22. Mulder JR Official

    Sir, if you at Sabah.. you must go Kundasang to because many places you can visit like, war memorial park Kundasang, desa farm Kundasang, claimb maragang hill, sky bike, hot Spring Ranau

  23. trappedtherain

    I just found your channel and have been binge watching. Really like your formal polite style. One of these days, pls share some tips for us on how to develop “strong” stomach. I will get sick a lot (typhoid, food poisoning, etc..) if I am as adventurous as you. Wish I had your immune system!

  26. Cie Cat

    Finally! You are here! Welcome to Donggongon, Penampang Kota Kinabalu😁😁 My hometown. Yasser.

  29. artsy_voyageuse

    I can’t wait to go back home this upcoming Christmas and enjoy all the seafood! So yummmy and glad you enjoyed it all

  33. Maureen Cathers

    Awesome video! It’s been hard to find many good videos about the Bornean part of Malaysia. I’ll be there next April and this video made me even more excited for my trip!

  34. Poppa

    Local KK-lite here and came here to say, well done lad for trying the Butod! Not many people would. Enjoy the rest of your time in Sabah!
    Oh, the leaves you couldn’t identify were curry leaves. It leaves a very fragrant taste and is a must when cooking butter sauce on seafood, which is what you had.

  38. Hajar Renate Midbrød

    promoting smoking in your video , great job Luke , excellent role model.. why are all the food vloggers on youtube so fake ? every episode they LOVE everything they eat ..like ..EVERYTHING ..its just not realistic ..no one loves everything they try , I wish these food tubers would give honest reviews , it would be so refreshing .-((( he ate that worm and you could tell he didn't like yet says its good ..doesn't eat another one ..stop with the fakeness , just say its not to your liking , it doesn't offend anyone

  39. K W

    $100 is a lot in Malaysia. Bacchanal Buffet is only 60 USD. But good to see you back in Asia.

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