Food Calories
Snacks are sneaky. Each piece looks tiny and innocent, but most sit between 150 and 300 calories, and nobody in history has eaten one piece of kuih, one takoyaki or one hotteok. Three pieces from the pasar and you have eaten a full meal without noticing.
This page exists so you know exactly what that box from the pasar malam, the konbini shelf or the street cart costs. Everything ranked lightest to heaviest, per piece or per serving, so you can pick your favourites on purpose instead of by accident.
There are 110 dishes ranked on this page. The lightest is Butod at 20 kcal per 1 grub (grilled), the heaviest is Ngoh Hiang at 805 kcal per 1 mixed platter with sweet sauce, and the average lands around 248 calories a serving. 74 of them come in under 300 calories, and 4 are 600 or more.
That spread is the whole point. Two dishes off the same menu can be 785 calories apart, which is more than most people's entire daily deficit. Knowing which is which costs you nothing and changes the outcome.
Calorie and macro figures are estimates for a typical street stall, hawker or restaurant serving. Actual numbers vary by stall, recipe and portion size. Use them as a guide, not gospel.
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