Terengganu Roadside Snack · Fried Fish Sausage
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It exists because fishing communities needed a way to survive monsoon season, when rough seas cut off the fresh catch fishermen depended on for income.
Ground fish is kneaded with sago or tapioca starch into a paste, rolled into long sausage shapes, then deep-fried until the outside turns chewy-crisp while the inside stays soft, usually sliced and served with a Terengganu-style chilli dip. Roadside stalls up and down Terengganu's coast fry it fresh in huge batches, especially near the Perhentian Islands ferry jetties.
Why it's made this way: Terengganu fishermen developed it generations ago as a way to preserve surplus fish caught before monsoon season made fishing too dangerous, turning a perishable catch into a shelf-stable snack.
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