Nasi Kandar

The most famous food in my home state is Nasi kandar. When we talking about Penang first we thinking about Nasi kandar and who ever comes to Penang they will want to try Nasi kandar. Nasi kandar names come from the past which is the hawkers rice will kandar(balance) a pole on shoulder with two huge containers of rice meals but now they no need to “kandar” the rice meals again because now they have their own shop even now we can find Nasi kandar everywhere in Malaysia and the famous nasi kandar restaurant are Kassim restaurant, Kayu restaurant and Pelita restaurant. The rice is accompanied by side dishes such as fried chicken, curried spleen, cubed beef, fish roe, fried prawns or fried squid. There also have many types of curry sauces and they were mixture together and poured on the rice. This is called 'banjir' (flooding) and give delicious taste to the rice. Nasi kandar can be eaten early in the morning even until in the midnight. Even we can find Nasi kandar everywhere in Malaysia but nasi kandar in Penang still have their own taste which are one of the owner of Nasi kandar said that because of the water there will be the different in taste between in Penang and others state in Malaysia.