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If you walk past Botak Nasi Lemak located in SS3 Petaling Jaya, you won’t be able to miss a sign at the front of the ...

Zainal Abidin's tiny food stall serves just one item and opens for only a few hours but is besieged each day by nearly a thousand customers clamouring for Malaysia's undisputed national dish, nasi ...

While PJ is home to many famous nasi lemak spots, patrons of Gerai Selera Jaya 223 will often ask if you’re team red or team blue. There are a couple things to note. Firstly, this stall goes by 2 ...

Open till 4am, streetside Bumbung makes a popular spot in PJ for night owls, students and the after-work crowd. The Nasi Lemak with Fried Chicken (RM6) topped with a perfect fried egg never ceases to ...

“I first heard about those posts from my friends. I had a good laugh,” hawker Ellis Phua, a mother of three, says. “But the next few days after the posts went up, we got a [better] crowd. You could ...

Weeks after the Nasi Lemak Burger was launched by McDonald’s Singapore, Malaysians finally got a taste of their very own rendition of the special item. This was all thanks to popular Malaysian burger ...

1 of 19 The hawker quit finance job which earned him “six figures a year” Ken, a first-time hawker, has been in the finance industry for the last fourteen years, most recently as a sales director in a ...

ne day in April last year, Theresa Lam woke up and wanted nasi lemak, the de facto national dish of Malaysia, for breakfast. The only problem was that the 52-year-old public relations consultant was ...

After the success of ‘Padangs on Wheels’, Farrah Adeeba and her co-owners have opened ‘Nasi Lemak Pak Man’ in Shah Alam.

Singapore's hawker culture is regarded as a national treasure. I spent a day at Mizzy Corner, a nasi lemak stall, to learn how they prepare one of the city-state's most iconic dishes. Even though ...