Since
I moved to the Netherlands, I haven’t been able to eat my favorite meal on a
regular basis. I can’t just pop out to a stall and grab a stomach full of bliss
like I can in Kuala Lumpur. So, if I do have a craving for nasi lemak, I have
to cook it myself.
Cooking
nasi lemak here isn’t really a problem. I can get most of the ingredients at
the Chinese supermarket in the city center. However, I’m not fond at all of the
dried anchovies they sell. They import the stuff from Thailand and somehow, it
doesn’t fry very well. You don’t get the same crunchiness as you do with
Malaysian dried anchovies after frying.
Because of
this, I have to get my dried anchovies from Malaysia every time I go back home.
Sometimes, as most of my friends here know about my obsession with the good
stuff, they will buy some dried anchovies for me when they make a trip back
home. After being here for 18 months, I have yet to run short of dried
anchovies.
Besides my
own home cooked version, I have had nasi lemak cooked by other fellow
Malaysians as well. So far, I have tasted 4 different varieties (2 were cooked
by the same person but in different quantities thus ended up tasting different). I think I’ll talk about all these different versions in future
posts (if not, this will end up to be a very long post). As for now, talking
about food has made me hungry so I think I’ll go and have some nasi dagang which was leftover from the weekend.
P.s. I
didn’t cook the nasi dagang. I have no idea how to cook it.
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