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Istimewa <b>Nasi Padang</b> – Eating Red Series | Unlikely Lady of Leisure

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 10:13 PM PDT

April 15, 2014 by selenaquah

Istimewa Nasi Padang is one of my favourite nasi padang (Malay rice and dishes) places. I still remember Jon sneaking home food from there during my first confinement when my Mum was stricter with what I could or could not eat after delivery.

This place is hot stuff. Lunch queues are always long, snaking around the coffeeshop. And a good indicator of quality food is the number of cabbies who go there to eat everyday. The taxi drivers know best!

They have a wide variety of yummy dishes to choose from, making choosing what to eat a battle between greed and belly space. They are famous for the rendang (dry curried meat), and that was what I was there for that day to fulfil my red meat quota. The beef rendang was so tender and very lemak (Malay for rich and robust tasting, usually for food cooked with coconut milk). Their sambal chilli is also kick-ass.

Many of the office workers flock there in groups and order a range of dishes to share. That's the best, then you get to try more stuff!

Try to reach early (before 1130am) if you want to avoid the queues, but generally the queues move very quickly because there are usually about 4-5 people serving customers during lunch time.