While Georgetown is a predominantly Chinese town, Malays and Indians do make up a sizeable portion of the population. Nasi Kandar (trans: nasi - rice, kandar - carry a load at each end of a pole on your shoulder) comes from the once common tradition of the wandering Malay street hawkers carrying dishes on baskets at the end of poles where you pick two or three curries to complement a plate of rice. Nowadays, you eat Nasi Kandar in restaurants. We decide to sample Sri Kayu on Penang Road.

To be honest I wasn’t expecting much but what really killed it for me was the price. Starting off over RM 4, adding a few bite size chunks of fried fish eggs and chicken bumped the price up to an astronomical RM 10 - for something which I’m confident I can cook better myself.

Well, they seemed amazed when they found out that their shop was featured in our Hawker Trekking bible. I guess they weren’t that confident of their cooking to begin with.