Combine straight off-the pan crispy fried chicken with egg yolk-soaked santan (coconut milk) rice and we have a simple but delicious dish that drives so many people into a dark back lane.
Bumbung is along Jalan 21/17, Sea Park, Petaling Jaya.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 10000, f9, 1/60 sec.
There is a place in PJ that gives popular Chinese ‘mamak’ Murni SS2 competition. It is an Indian ‘mamak’ with no roof; ironically named… eh… Bumbung (roof)!
Located in Paramount Garden, many of its multi-racial patrons refer to it as Nasi Lemak Maybank (the next door landmark). Its speciality is crispy fried chicken and, surprisingly, telur goreng (fried egg omelette). Unlike other ‘al fresco’ night-time mamak stalls, this one occupies a very dim and long backlane.
It took the bright Pana-Leica 25mm f1.4 lens and the OM-D to rein in what was really dark, even to the naked eyes.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 2500, f1.4, 1/50 sec.
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Where is the best Nasi Lemak in Klang? Restoran Shanmuga in Berkeley Garden. Served hot in a packet, it goes very well with their crispy fried chicken and iced milk tea. For foreign viewers, Nasi Lemak is rice cooked with fragrant coconut milk and garnished with chilli paste, anchovies, peanuts and a hard-boiled egg. The packed version comes wrapped in banana leaf and old newspaper. Yumz.
