Nasi kandar is a signature dish of Malaysia; we have verified places to eat it in Penang. Steamed rice flooded with layered curries, banjir style, and paired with fried chicken, sotong or okra, served fast from rows of pots at Tamil Muslim canteens. Start with where to eat Nasi kandar in Penang.
Nasi kandar · Penang
Steamed rice flooded with layered curries, banjir style, and paired with fried chicken, sotong or okra, served fast from rows of pots at Tamil Muslim canteens.
Nasi kandar takes its name from the kandar pole Tamil Muslim traders used to balance rice and curry pots as they walked George Town's docks in the 1800s. Hameediyah moved the trade indoors on Campbell Street in 1907 and is recorded by the Malaysia Book of Records as the country's oldest nasi kandar restaurant, while Line Clear's open-air alley off Jalan Penang, running around the clock, made the format a national obsession. Ordering is a spoken art: name your rice, your protein, and say banjir if you want every curry to flood the plate.
Where to eat in Penang:
- Line Clear Nasi Kandar
- Deens Maju Nasi Kandar
- Hameediyah
Where to eat Nasi kandar in Penang: the editor picks