Here is my plate of nasi kandar.
Different shop, different specialities which they are good at.
Notice that the entire dish is
flooded with gravy. We call this " banjir " which means flood.
When it comes to this shop , I really like their kerang or blood cockles and the mixed sauce called "kuah campur" is very addictive , not too hot and measured with a calculated knack by the flick of the wrist.
Salted egg not as good as Malacca though.
Because this is Air Itam , where there are just so many nasi kandar lovers pigeon holed up in the highrise vicinity , this dish makes life much more exciting once the empat ekor shops have closed the shutters. Here , most of these nasi kandar stalls can be found within Chinese coffeeshops .
Thus, moslem customers opt to takeaway rather than eat in .
As you can see in both these pictures, the crowd is predominantly Chinese.
Not just limited to this stall , morning till midnight , there are so many haunts to choose from.
While the Chinese from other states cannot even eat anything remotely spicy , the people here lap it up as if it were their mum's cooking and they talk so fondly about it as if it were part and parcel of the Chinese diet.
Personally , I think it's the spice that makes Penangites so fiesty , alert and to a certain extent , strong in appetite to a ripe old age.
Perhaps you are missing something spicy in your life ? And specially if you are Chinese , please come try this when you are in Penang. It takes some getting used to , you might think we're mad but I'm sure you will one day agree that we all need some spice in our lives.
After you've found the stall which takes you on a culinary high the most.
Location : Air Itam, Penang
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