Why Malaysians like to cook meat with sugar or honey?

It tastes pretty awful, not to mention that it's even riskier for diabetes than sweets.

not Malaysian food but Malay food like to use sugar especially in curry, rendang, fried noodle, chicken rice and etc

because we're 'sweet people' and we know how to enjoy the good things in life hehehehe

However i don't like my curry to taste sweet.

PS : i prefer licking honey than drinking it..i have no idea why..i'll get sore throat.

I think is because malaysians like to eat sweet foods.

cos we dont like to call our wife 'honey'.

I don't know, maybe they love the sweet food. I am Malaysian to but i hate to eat food always taste sweet..yarks..!

I don't see anything 'wrong' with using sugar or honey with meat... Personally I think it is an Asian thing (a personal opinion rather than anything else)...

You are right about risking our lives with diabetes and other kinds of diseases as the result of consuming excessive sugar... but I would also like to add that cooking honey (heating up/ cooking/ roasting/ boiling) will turn honey into poison so, be extremely careful about this!

of course it just not only sugar or honey, even for barbecue also have some salt and pepper before take them to cook!
actually is just to mix the taste in many ways.

Honey chicken wings, yummy!! Just do more exercise, don't sit and sleep all the day and eat a lot of sugar.

I agree with TheBear
It may tastes awful to you but not to them and we always have plenty of choices and alternatives
Some Malaysian can't take cheese too much( maybe at all) because to them it taste awful, so they go for an alternative - belachan!
So go for alternatives

The use of SUGAR is a must in every Malaysian kitchen.

AQ.. it doen't taste awful not on my taugh..
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better diabetes rather than obesiti..

not really, we normally have spicy food.

i know in Kelantan almost all the dishes have sugar in them..to me i dont use sugar in my food...

I do realize people do that here! But I like my meat HOT and spicy.. :D
I guess the sweet thing is just a different way of preparing your usual meal. For those with a sweet tooth, they would definitely enjoy it.. ;-)

I know, I hated it also. Usually Kelantan and Johor people like to put sugar in their savouries. I know that some other dishes put sugar to balance the spicyness or to offset the sourness but some overdo it. Imagine the desserts, you could be pulling your teeth out.

they do? maybe because they like sweet..

Flavor ?

sweet and sour fish is my favorite :)