Eating At Nasi Kandar Restaurants

Since it's Chinese New Year Day 2, some Chinese food and vegetable stalls still haven't resumed their business. At the market, at restaurants, and so on. So we either cook at home or visit the 24-hour nasi kandar restaurant!

I'm not really a fan of nasi kandar (pic below) but I do like capati, roti telur and murtabak!



Nasi kandar (nasi = rice, kandar = ??)


Roti telur (roti = bread, telur = egg)


Capati


Murtabak lembu (lembu = cow, daging lembu = beef, murtabak = ??)

It's not that expensive to eat at nasi kandar outlets. A roti telur can cost around RM1.20 and you can enjoy a glass of sweet, hot teh tarik too. If translated literally, teh tarik would be called 'pulling tea' or 'pulled tea'. It's because they sort of 'pull' the drink while making it.



Teh tarik pic taken from here


This is the teh tarik man at work. See the guy 'pulling' the tea? There are even competitions where the participants do all kinds of tricks while making teh tarik.


Pic from here

The service at nasi kandar restaurants are quite efficient. The moment you're seated, the waiter comes and takes your order. But if it's really busy, then you'll need to get the waiter's attention. While you're waiting for your food to come or even while you're eating, you can also watch TV. Not bad, eh?

The food's cheap, the service laudable and yet I've once heard some customers criticizing the waiters. One waiter took their order and went off to get their food. These customers quietly muttered among themselves, not trusting that their waiter would remember what they ordered since they made quite a long, fussy list about how they wanted their food.

I don't know what happened in the end, if the waiter got them the right food or not because my family and I were done eating and left. Hopefully the poor waiter got everything right. If not, they'll surely complain more about him! There were lots of customers that time and you know, it's busy, busy, busy!