Vegetarian Nasi Lemak

I was again at Jujube Vegetarian House, Damansara Jaya, because I was curious about their Nasi Lemak. 

This restaurant is enjoying steady patronage.

For drinks, I ordered The Lemon Sunset. Nice name, eh? I put in a request for less sugar.

But it was still a tad sweet for me. So I went in with my straw and jabbed at the lemon slices and lime to extract more juice out of them. 

Ah! So much better! The tart citrus juices neutralized the sweet taste of this very refreshing drink.

There you go, the vegetarian nasi lemak. Three slices of cucumber, half a boiled egg, peanuts, some crispy stuff in place of ikan bilis, blanched long beans, brown rice and "mutton" curry.

The curry was quite good. What you would expect of Chinese style curry. I did not like the crispy ("ikan bilis") bits because it had a five spice powder taste to it.

The rice is plain brown rice, not cooked in coconut milk, so there is no nasi lemak taste to it. The sambal, although unlike usual nasi lemak sambal, was (to me) outstanding in its own right.

I believe kaffir lime leaves (daun limau purut) is an ingredient which gave the sambal a very aromatic and distinct flavor. I loved this sambal but there was so little of it!

So I complained to the boss who told me that I could request for more. The reason why they put so little is because some customers may not like too much sambal.

Overall, I thought this was pleasant enough but if I want nasi lemak, the real deal is the way to go. But if you are vegetarian, this is pretty good.

What I could suggest to the restaurant is to mix the rice with a teaspoon of coconut oil (preferable cold pressed coconut oil) to infuse coconut aroma into the rice. That would make the nasi lemak more like nasi lemak hah..hah..

This was before Mother's Day at The Starling. All pink and flowery.

Earlier that morning, I was not vegetarian. LOL!