NASI LEMAK

Nasi Lemak With Chicken Curry

Food Type : Indian/Malay/Chinese, Halal and maybe Non-Halal for Chinese type

Where to get it? : Almost everywhere in Malaysia 

Description : The unofficial national dish of Malaysia. With roots in Malay culture, its name is a Malay word that literally means ‘rice in cream’. The name is derived from the cooking process whereby rice is soaked in rich coconut cream and then the mixture steamed. Sometimes knotted screwpine (pandan) leaves are thrown into the rice while steaming to give it more fragrance. Traditionally, Nasi Lemak serves in banana leaves as a platter with cucumber slices, small dried anchovies (ikan bilis), roasted peanuts, hard boiled egg and hot spicy onion sauce (sambal). Nasi lemak can also come with any other accompaniments such as chicken, cuttlefish, cockle, beef curry, beeflungs where all are spicy in nature. You could try this basically everywhere in Malaysia. Depends on the accompaniments and size of portion, it cost from RM1.00 to RM6.00 normally. My bet is to try out those packed with banana leaves in small portion which cost only RM1.00 and they are really delicious.

Rice steamed with coconut milk, with slices of eggs (omelete, fried, hard-boiled or steamed), peanuts, anchovies, sometimes served with cucumber/vegetables and any meat of your choice (chicken, beef, mutton or fish). Topped with sambal (spicy prawn paste) and curry per request.

There isn't much description to do cause this dish is just plain awesome. It may look normal to you, but wait till you eat it. You can’t miss this!