Xhizors: Keep Calm and Eat Nasi Lemak

Saturday, November 09, 2013

Keep Calm and Eat Nasi Lemak

When the British government first coined the "Keep Calm and Carry On" slogan back then in 1939 it was intended to raise the morale of the British public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities a few months before the WWII. 74 years later, the Malaysians used it as an excuse to eat Nasi Lemak.

It was not a bad excuse, of course, who does not love to eat Nasi Lemak?

While most Nasi Lemak lovers depended on the word of mouth of friends and food blogs for clues and news for their desperate search of the best Nasi Lemak, FriedChillies Food Network came up with the brilliant idea of gathering the best 10 Nasi Lemak in Klang Valley at a single event on the 9th of November 2013 and the event was a blast. Deen and I had no regret attending it.

Despite the heavy traffic, we made it just in time to Telekom Malaysia Convention Centre, Bangsar. The organiser did a good job providing free car parks for us. +1 for the parking spot right next to the lift straight up to the convention hall.

In order to make purchase for the Nasi Lemak, we are required to get ourselves coupon booklets worth RM10/booklet.

Deen posing in front a banner, holding the purchased the event currency

And this is what we saw upon entering the hall.

Chaos.

Aerial view-taken from FriedChillies FB album.

Some of the pictures I managed to snap:

The pricing for each pack of Nasi Lemak has been set to RM2.00 and additional "Lauk" will cost you another RM2.00 per dish. We spent about RM30.00.

Deen with a weird pose.

Some of the Nasi Lemak that was lucky enough to be immortalised is a picture before being eaten-

After an hour and a half of amateur food critic session, we came to final decision that the best was of usual Friday after futsal 223 Nasi Lemak, funny that we found that it tasted extra delicious than the ones we would normally have at the food court.