It means fatty rice and rightfully so as the rice is cooked in rich coconut milk with a pinch of salt. Classic toppings include fried fish, egg, sambal cuttlefish, cucumber slices, ikan bilis and biting chilli sambal with a sweetish upfront taste. But the popular fried chicken wings and spicy otah (grilled fish paste) have also found their way into the dish here.
Nasi Lemak
50 Nasi Lemak Curry Rice
17 Upper Boon Keng #01-50, Upper Boon Keng Mkt & Food Ctr (Map) Mon – Fri: 12pm – 2pm, 5pm – 7pm, Sat & Sun: 12pm – 2pm
These days, there's a 45-min average queue time for this dish here. The key reason is price. They sell this at least $2-$3 cheaper than most places. All the attendant notes are there; the rice is fluffy enough and is rendered with enough spices and the mutton (the best seller) comes not overly soft but with some bite as some would like it to be. Their dhal leans more like a curry with sweet notes and pairs well with the savoury spicy rice. They offer chicken in a sweetish masak merah sauce and fried masala fish. Overall, their version feels a degree more to the Malay style briyani flavours.
Aliff Nasi Lemak
49 Serangoon Garden Way #01-27, Serangoon Garden Mkt & Food Ctr (Map) 7.30am – 3pm Mon & Fri
This is a multi outlet stall and this one doesn’t look much of a nasi lemak stall, plastering the shop front with epok epok and goreng pisang goodies. Point for the nasi lemak sets. You know masters are at work when they use aged basmati rice, cooked to soft, firm, moist, seductively loose and fluffy texture with just enough lemak. The sweetish and wet Malaysian style sambal is moreish and the fresh fried chicken, fish, otah, ikan bilis and nuts are all great sideshows.
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