Breakfast in Cherating

 The place to eat brekkie in Cherating was this busy Nasi Lemak shop in the middle of town. Every morning it was full of locals and their families, all sitting down to enjoy the diverse spread that is Nasi Lemak. Of course the specialty of this place, given Cherating's location on the coast was seafood. As I mentioned a few posts ago though, I don't much go in for seafood, so I ate everything else instead. The rice was served out of a round insulated water container, you can just see it on the edge of the first photo. everything else was in that bain-marie which i should point out wasn't hot. The lady there in the pink was the only one who spoke English so we dealt
with her on the couple of occasions we went back.

 Here we have my second attempt at enjoying a Nasi Lemak. Instead of the fatty coconut rice i went for the fried rice, i had a cold greasy omlette with onions and peas, some fried chicken that was so dry it could have been cooked 3 days earlier and finally some beef rendang, which was actually pretty good, the flavour of  rendang is hard to beat, but it was cold as well and over cooked. Again I was pretty disappointed in Nasi Lemak, the elements themselves would be pretty good if they were fresh and hot, but they weren't even close to either. I wonder if i was just unlucky or is all Nasi Lemak cold and dry?




Teh Tarik, oh let me count the ways. Basically just strong tea with condensed milk, how they make it so delicious is by pouring it between two containers from height. Its sweet and frothy and strong, and thanks to the pouring its always the prefect temperature for drinking. I must have had this stuff about 20 times when I was in Malaysia. And almost every time I ordered it people were strangely surprised, almost as though foreigners don't really order it that much. But for 1.2MR I don't know why not.




 Here we have another addition to my collection of crazy beverages, ill just refer to this stuff as double oomph. I don't know what its called, that was the only part of the label in english, it was grape flavoured, which makes it a win in my book, I dont know what its oomph was and how it was double, probably the 17 tablespoons of sugar im sure it had in it. But it was great, the perfect accompaniment to 4 dunhill blues.