Food


Harumanis Mango
Harumanis mango farm is one of the main product in Perlis. It is located in Bukit Bintang area, Sungai Batu Pahat. This mango farm is very unique because such farm is not found in any of the state. Apart from that the taste and aroma of  this distinctive fruit has attracted visitors to visit this farm. It can only be enjoyed once a year around March-June.




Laksa Kuala Perlis
Laksa Kuala Perlis is a famous dish in Perlis. This laksa is made of  rice flour, with its savory so appetizing when eaten. This dish is so famous along the shore especially in Kuala Perlis. Laksa makes use a certain mould to produce strings of Laksa. The savory is made from boiled fish, ground and cooked with its ingredients.




Seafood
Seafood is very well-known along the seaside in Perlis. Seafood served is all fresh here.Various choices of food prepared in order to meet visitor's appetite. Normally,seafood is enjoyed at night as sea breeze blows. For  seafood lovers, Kuala Perlis and Kuala Sungai Baru will be the focus. Kuala Perlis is famous with grilled fishes, crabs ,squid and various cooking at reasonable prices. 



Pulut Mempelam
Glutinous rice is eaten with fresh mangoes, sapodilla, Durians or bananas is quite unusual food for some places, but for the people of Perlis especially the farmers, the food is a common food.

Various types sweet and savory taste of mango  and the latest is Harummanis mango, cut into small pieces and eaten together with "pulut sibar" or glutinous fat. Wickedly delicious. "Pulut sibar" is glutinous rice mixed with coconut milk, mixed together until smooth that then leveled.


Nasi Ulam
Nasi Ulam, which is rice mixed with several types of leaf is a traditional food in Perlis. Some types of plants such as noni, putat, sekentut, cemumar, selom, and mentalun taken grain, pulp sliced ​​and mixed with rice. Pepper and crushed dried fish mixed together, to enhance the flavor of the rice.

Nasi ulam usually eaten while to break the fast. Mixed taste bitter, fatty and spicy such tasty eaten with yam as an appetizer.



Sira Belinggai
Belinggai fruit will ripe during the summer or 'eastern wind'. At this time farmers the state of Perlis use the fruit to make sira called "Sira Belinggai '. Fruit Belinggai that hard skin, peeled and removed the contents. belinggai is mixed with coconut milk to make sira. Belinggai Sira is usually eaten in the evening and very tasty when mixed with flakes or ringgi. These foods are a traditional food for the initial population of Perlis. 


 
Jeruk Maman 
Maman is a vegetable. Maman leaves will be separated from the twigs and cut into small pieces. Then, cleaned up and mixed with salt and ferment for one day. Then it is mixed with water of rice and fermented again in the pot for three days until it become mature and become orange.

Maman pickles is usually served with sliced ​​onions and chillies. It is usually eaten with rice during lunch and dinner.


 

 
Pekasam
This pekasam made ​​from fish or shrimp. For this state of society, pekasam made ​​from fish commonly known than the pekasam that made ​​from shrimp. Usually freshwater fish such as puyu, Javanese carp, perch and tilapia used to prepare pekasam.
Pekasam available through the fermentation process of fish mixed with salt, fried rice powder and can also be included tamarind and palm sugar. The fish Pekasam is usually fried and eaten with rice as lunch or dinner meal. Some are eaten with steamed glutinous rice and grated coconut.