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Banana leaf rice is a signature dish of Malaysia; we have verified places to eat it in Kuala Lumpur. White rice on a banana leaf with three vegetable dishes, papadum, pickle and a choice of curries, refilled until you fold the leaf. Start with where to eat Banana leaf rice in Kuala Lumpur.
White rice on a banana leaf with three vegetable dishes, papadum, pickle and a choice of curries, refilled until you fold the leaf. Brickfields and Bangsar in Kuala Lumpur serve it from morning to night.
Banana leaf rice arrived with South Indian, largely Tamil, migrants who came to British Malaya in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to work plantations and railways. The leaf serves as plate, and a meal of rice, vegetable poriyal, rasam, pickle and papadum is set out in a fixed order, with curries of chicken, mutton or fish ladled on request. In Kuala Lumpur the tradition lives in Brickfields, the city's Little India, where Sri Paandi on Jalan Tun Sambanthan serves from 09:00 until 23:30 most days, and in Bangsar, where Devi's Corner and Sri Nirwana Maju draw a mixed office crowd. Eat with the right hand, and fold the leaf toward you when you are done.
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