As I walked around the food centre, I spotted these Ayam and Ikan Penyet on many tables and I was intrigued. One of the diners pointed me to this stall, Warong Hjh Kamisah, and I immediately joined the long queue.
We came here for Ben's favourite childhood carrot cake but it was closed unfortunately. So we joined the longest queue in the food centre for this Halal Green Chilli Chicken Rice.
A very different kind of laksa from what I am used to.
This is @makoeats 's go-to place for Nasi Campur and I can totally understand why.
Cooking rice in bamboo pole is not uncommon in South-East Asia and amongst certain minority ethnic groups in China Yunnan Province. In most places, sticky or glutinous rice is used just like the popular Malay festive lemang that uses glutinous rice and coconut milk.
Lately, we heard about this new stall in Chinatown market selling Nasi Rendang cooked in bamboo and decided to check it out. We pre-ordered the Bamboo Nasi Rendang few days in advance as advised by the owner. True enough, the “Sold Out” sign was up even before the stall started operation when we arrived. Here, lemak basmati rice instead of glutinous rice is used. In fact, it is the same rice that they serve in their nasi lemak dishes. The rice, together with their signature rendang meat (chicken, beef, lamb shank and prawn), is wrapped in aromatic leaf called daun lerek and steamed in bamboo poles for 3 hours.
The rendang meat is tender and has a good depth and complexity of flavour. Each plate of the bamboo nas