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Tiger Bites – the Great Street Food Challenge

Tiger Beer challenges all foodies to ‘uncage’ the secret street food spots throughout Malaysia

Time Out in partnership with Tiger Beer
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Ask any Malaysian for their favourite thing about Malaysia, and food will make its way into the conversation. With so much culture and heritage in this country, the best thing to come out of this unique diversity (apart from the muhibbah) is definitely the food. With roadside stalls, kopitiams, mamaks and dai chows aplenty in Malaysia's landscape, it’s a challenging task to filter the absolute best from the not-so-best. We bicker and try to one-up each other with our picks on who makes the best steamed chicken rice, nasi kandar (cough, Penang, cough) or cendol, but Tiger Beer thinks there's no need for all that.

From Jenjarom to Johor Bahru, Pagoh to Penang, amazing street food is assuredly available in towns and cities throughout Malaysia. As such, Tiger Beer has invited foodies to go on a food hunt to ‘uncage’ new street food locations and share it with fellow Malaysians through a contest on Tiger Bites’ microsite www.tigerbites.com.my.

How difficult can it be? Finding new good food is already our unofficial national pastime.

Here’s what you need to do: sign up at the microsite, create a trail, and start dropping pins for great secret street eats along the way. The contest runs for 11 weeks, and ends at 11.59pm on November 1. The impressive prize list includes 11 sets of GoPros, phone lenses, selfie tripods, Tiger Beer vouchers and best of all, an all-expenses-paid trip to Taiwan for two.

Start with large cities like Penang, Ipoh, KL, Malacca and Johor Bahru for a north-to-south (or vice versa) chowdown. For Penang, try to stay away from the long queues and head for the lesser known alleys, where a secret char kuey teow stall might lurk unnoticed by tourists on their buses. Ipoh’s white coffee may be well known, but which coffee shop serves the most gao of them all? Take some time to stop by the smaller surrounding towns such as Kampar and Taiping to score some extra points on your Tiger Bites food trail.

Next stop: KL. The city may be huge, but no nasi lemak is too difficult to find for the most intrepid food hunter. Hint: Time Out KL may be of help here. After KL, one might need a few days to recover from the food coma. Malacca’s chicken rice balls and cendol may all be very well, but how about the lesser known places that are only known among the locals? What about putu piring, pork satay, and the best place for a Nyonya dinner? We await your secret pins.

After Malacca, devote a few days to Johor Bahru, the city with the most potential for lesser-known street food gems. Find the best mee rojak under the tree or a roadside kuih stall that uses the best gula Melaka. Word of advice: try not to let your food trail end on a low note by venturing too far south into Singapore.

In celebration of this campaign, and to all that have generously shared their pins, Tiger Beer is throwing a Streetfood Festival on Avenue K's rooftop on Saturday, November 7, filled with the finest street food with ice cold Tiger Beers as accompaniment. To double your chances of winning exclusive passes to the Tiger Bites Streetfood Festival, enter our giveaway through Time Out KL’s Twitter account (follow them now @timeoutkl) and you could win two passes to the food festival. We have 20 pairs of exclusive passes up for grabs. Happy eating!

(This contest is open to non-Muslims, 18 years old and up. Contest ends Sunday, Nov 1 at 11.59pm.)
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