considering the fact that most nasi lemak and fried rice used the same polished white rice, id say the study is quite credible.

hav u ever see nasi lemak or fried rice cooked using red rice or brown rice in restaurants? im sure i havent.

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I tried Airasia's nasi lemak goreng...it was terrible.

The place I frequent use basmati instead of jasmine rice. When prepare one myself also I use basmati. I can see the trend now that shops are 'upgrading' their rice of choice in nasi lemak.
For nasi goreng I mean the composition itself. Its literally a genre of rice plus whatever you can imagine. Quite impossible for any few variants of nasi gorent to represent the entire group.

This post has been edited by failed.hashcheck: Nov 17 2019, 03:45 PM

I tried in a warung near my place, not bad, real nasi lemak then make it goreng style, so the santan fragrance is there, just that a bit expensive compare to normal nasi goreng, maybe because of the ingredients.

From your link. Depends on how you fry it

Among all the 23 Chinese traditional foods tested, 6 of them belonged to low GI foods (Tuna Fish Bun, Egg Tart, Green Bean Dessert, Chinese Herbal Jelly, Fried Rice Vermicelli in Singapore-style, and Spring Roll), 10 of them belonged to moderate GI foods (Baked Barbecued Pork Puff, Fried Fritter, "Mai-Lai" Cake, "Pineapple" Bun, Fried Rice Noodles with Sliced Beef, Barbecue Pork Bun, Moon Cakes, Glutinous Rice Ball, Instant Sweet Milky Bun, and Salted Meat Rice Dumpling), the others belonged to high GI foods (Fried Rice in Yangzhou-Style, Sticky Rice Wrapped in Lotus Leaf, Steamed Glutinous Rice Roll, Jam and Peanut Butter Toast, Plain Steamed Vermicelli Roll, Red Bean Dessert, and Frozen Sweet Milky Bun).

three belonged to medium-GI foods (Barley Drink, Char Siew Pau and Nasi Lemak), and the other six belonged to high-GI foods

This post has been edited by CKKwan: Nov 17 2019, 03:53 PM

Eat less

Excercise more

Most pipul would would think NL is healthier bikos the rice is cooked in santan while FR is cooked with oil.

But in hindsight it's the other way around.

You use less oil with fried rice, usually just a touch, just enuf to coat the kuali only to prevent rice from sticking to the surface, else the rice will turn greasy if too much oil. Good fried rice should taste relatively dry and slightly charred taste to them.

(Unless you're one of those retard cooks, pour lots of oil to fry egg first, so it gets fluffy and doubles in volume, then dump the rest of the ingredients in)

Nasi lemak, those sambal is practically a dollop of cooking oil la.
Kacang has fugton of calories too.

You can argue that when pipul cook sambal, they will cook it until the oil separates from the paste, they'd call the term "pecah minyak", and spoons out most of the oil.

But in reality most restaurants would just leave the oil in coz "muh more lemak = muh sedap".
Usually the more hikeras the resutoran, the more lemak their sambal is, bigger dollop too.

kawan... fried RICE VERMICELLI =\= fried RICE

Why compare?

Breakfast nasi lemak with rendang/sotong/chicken.

Dinner fried rice.

Nasi lemak best sedap

Ada protein. Fried rice no nutrients pun

Fried rice got eggs and meat and vegetables.

Whatever the reading is, if you want to eat, u will still eat la 😆
Mau tak mau saja

both unhealthy
but nasi lemak use more oil
oil for rice oil for sambal oil for ikan bilis

depends on wat kind of basmati oso. polished basmati is no better than jasmine rice. wholegrain aka brown basmati on the other hand. is the same or slightly better than brown rice

Comparing two vices yikes

Choosing the assumed better one still doesn't mean you're making a healthy choice

go try nasi lemak goreng on top of bukit ampang there,
very nice (if its still there, i went there few years ago lol)
then i tried nasi lemak goreng from airasia thinking it would be as nice as that,
could not even compare, air asia one is really bad.