Before one decide where is the best nasi lemak, needs to define what constitutes a good nasi lemak e.g rice should be cooked with Thai fragant rice, fluffy, flavourful, could be eaten on it's own, etc.

If you happened to swing by Temerloh, please go and try Nasi Lemak Azhar.
I've tried almost all Nasi Lemak in KL (Bumbung, Kg Baru, Warung Rindu, etc etc) yet I think nothing can beat the taste of this Nasi Lemak Azhar.

Tons of MSG! first and last time I will eat there.

Hahaha really?? Well most tasty thing are not healthy anyway IMHO.

you eat their ayam goreng....right way you taste MSG. If a bit i dont mind la...but they put like TONS of MSG! No wonder I had to drink so much water after that at home.

This post has been edited by empire: Apr 12 2018, 12:17 PM

Hahaha IC, I'm used to MSG maybe so just fine for me.

Located outside of Chong Kok Kopitiam in Klang train station

Must eat there in the Cafe cos serves very nice coffee and tea with roti bakar and enjoy the company of multi racial msian enjoying breakfast the right way

The queue can be quite long on weekends

Its subjective. Some people love sweet/ spicy sambal, fragrant rice or " beras hancur" nasi lemak..etc..

It's a bit of a waste to use fragrant rice (beras wangi) for nasi lemak as the fragrance of the rice is lost since a nasi lemak dish is mainly counting on its sambal and the coconut santan on the rice. Also, the sticky type of fragrant rice is not suitable for nasi lemak. Only the not-so-sticky type of fragrant rice is suitable. Fragrant rice is only good when taken with normal dishes, or when used for chicken rice.

The normal (cheap) rice and beras hancur is surely more suitable for nasi lemak than fragrant rice. It's not to say that one cannot use fragrant rice for nasi lemak. It's just that for the high price of Grade AAA fragrant rice, it's a waste since the smell of the fragrant rice will be lost since the nasi lemak is mostly enjoyed for its sambal and santan on the rice which will cover/eliminate all the smell of the fragrant rice.

This post has been edited by Dwango: Apr 18 2018, 06:10 PM

Nasi lemak is constituted from rice, sambal, ikan bilis, etc. each component should be excellent by itself for the whole combination to be excellent.

For reasons, cheap ingredients and poorly prepared dish need chilli sauce, gravy, spicy sauce or tomato ketchup.


This post has been edited by icemanfx: Apr 22 2018, 12:03 PM

Not sure the point you are making here. I am aware of the fact that every ingredient needs to be good as it's a combination as a whole, so that the dish will come up good. The point I am making here is the type of rice, that is Beras Wangi vs Beras normal. I'm not saying to use cheap or lousy rice with Beras normal but the point is the normal rice is cheaper than Beras Wangi. Beras Wangi has many types and brands, and some Beras Wangi tastes like Beras normal without the fragrance and stickiness of Beras Wangi.

For Nasi Lemak, the rice cannot be too sticky and that's the reason why Beras Wangi is not suitable. Most brands of Beras Wangi is sticky, almost like glutinous rice. The rice is not separated individually. But for some Beras Wangi, it is not so sticky and separated, so it's almost the same as the normal rice although it is claimed to be Beras Wangi with higher price.

Back to the point - i think you have mistaken my post in assuming that using cheap ingredients to make Nasi lemak. I am only talking about the rice and not the ingredients. Although I am only focusing on the rice, I am comparing between Beras Wangi and the normal rice, not cheap vs expensive. It's a known fact that normal rice is cheaper than Beras Wangi but that does not suggest that using the normal rice is using cheap ingredients.

At one time, Malaysian airlines nasi lemak was among the best and the pride of the country, the reason was they were using Thai Jasmine rice.

Jasmine rice could be fluffy with correct amount of water.

Agree!

Definitely. I actually haven't been to East Coast before. Planning a roadtrip sometime next year or end of this year. If it opens all day... then definitely will drop in to try.

Original Uncle Lim moved to Glenmarie... the inner most row behind Meng Kee charsiew rice.

Oh, madam kwan is very good, though I prefer Nasi Bojari more for the value.

The only nasi lemak I had in Kuantan 15 years (or more) was at food court. I cant remember the name but Im sure most would know. RM10 (or so back then) for one whole leg (or just leg), one sotong, telur and side dish I think. My friends keep recomendding saying its worth but RM10 back then was quite a lot to pay for nasi lemak. Personally I think its too much... sometimes struggled to finish the drink after eating.

i know a place in nearby Bukit Bintang, the nasik lemak is huge and delicious, plus have siham, so juicy and tasty.

salam ramadhan.

There is a delicious nasi lemak at Poppo kitchen... a restaurant which use nasi lemak with their signature dishes, attached with my foto kakaka


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My top choice is 'Nasi Lemak Jalan Antoi' (Kepong Wai Sek Kai)
Very nice fragrant rice, opens at 7pm with long queue.

This post has been edited by artman: May 25 2018, 12:54 PM

Not really, I'm not a nasi lemak aficionado. I have just tried a few wherever around my locations/destinations. And no, I'm not a cook so no idea whatsoever how to make sambal.