Malaysian roti canai tops TasteAtlas's World's 50 Best Street Foods list.

The Malaysian roti canai topped Croatian-based travel guide TasteAtlas's World's 50 Best Street Foods list.

Shared on its Instagram two days ago, the Malaysian favourite however shared the same points of 4.9 with the Filipino-style spring roll Lumpiang Shanghai - made of minced meat.

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The site ranks Valentine Roti along Jalan Semarak as the best place to try out roti canai, followed by I.V. Restaurant in Klang, and Roti Canai TokBak located in Johor Bahru.

According to the dish’s official entry on the TasteAtlas site, roti canai is described as a pan-fried flatbread created using a dough that combines flour, water, eggs, and fat. Each disc of dough is then repeatedly folded before being fried to create a final product that boasts a ‘layered texture, a soft interior, and a crispy outer layer’.

Tracing the origins of the dish back to India, TasteAtlas notes that the creation of the dish could likely be attributed to Indian labourers who migrated into Malaysia during the British Colonial era in the 19th century to work on plantations that were owned by the Crown.

The Sofia-based digital publication also points out that a number of different variations on the recipe exist, depending on the choice of either sweet or savoury fillings used in addition to other accompaniments such as curries.