Katong Nasi Lemak Stall
×Nasi Lemak
Nasi Lemak / 椰浆饭
Why you must eat itRice cooked in coconut milk and pandan, faintly sweet and fragrant, is the lead. The plate carries a sweet-hot chili paste (sambal), fried little fish (ikan bilis), peanuts, cucumber and an egg, soft or hard. Add fried chicken or fish cake if you like. First work a little sambal into the rice and take it with the crunch of the small fish and the toast of the peanuts. The sweet scent of coconut, the heat of sambal and the salt of the fish move back and forth on one plate. It is most often eaten as breakfast, and comes wrapped in green or banana leaf to carry off. A plate to eat sitting, or walking with the parcel.
Nasi lemak is a Malay breakfast dish and now one of Singapore's national foods. Eaten widely at stalls, eateries and coffee shops, its price and mix of sides run broad. Katong and Joo Chiat hold long-running shops too, the balance of heat and sweetness in the sambal marking each out. The leaf-wrapped takeaway is cheap, the familiar sight of the morning commuter buying one. Many shops are halal and use no pork. This stands for the area's plate rather than one named shop. Confirm hours and closing days on the spot.
- Nearest
- along Joo Chiat Rd
- Hours
- 07:00-14:00 頃
- Price
- S$3–6