Nasi Padang (Part 1) - Azhar Nasi Minang, Petaling Jaya

rendang daging/hati

I re-visited the stall recently and found it now operates at the new food court but still at the same location, Medan Selera MBPJ Jalan 12. The council have demolished the old zinc food court and built new one with more convenience and manageable place.



 

rendang in the making

 





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This Nasi Minang place is in PJS2, Taman Dato’ Harun, Petaling Jaya, located behind Taman Dato’ Harun  market and hawkers complex, just nearby to the mosque. The stall is resided in the middle of the hawkers zinc blocks, little bit hidden from the main road but its banner is clearly hang in front of the entrance. According to the owner, En. Azhar who currently run the stall with his 2 siblings, he started the business in 1979, helped is uncle and then he opened his own Nasi Padang stall, in 1990. 

My lunch that day was rice with rendang daging (beef rendang), gulai nangka or jackfruit gravy and of course the green chilies sambal. The rendang daging was really nice and so the gulai nangka. It is really different from rendang that I used to eat which I believe it is Minang taste. I did not take the daging tetel gravy that day even though it looked tempting. Daging tetel or also known as daging cincang (chopped beef) is actually beef with little bit fat used to be left over cut from meat itself then cooked in spices gravy. The rice is stored in a wooden barrel with banana leaf before it is scooped to the plate. I found other dishes here are not so different from usual dishes that we can see at other Malay stalls. It was quite disappointed this Minang stall does not have daging dinding and red chilies sambal. Daging dinding or thin sliced beef or sometime the sliced beef will be hacked first before it will be fried with spiced and it looks like little bit of smoked salmon. 



I found this Minang stall always get the crowd especially during lunch hour. En. Azhar can be contacted at 016 6106323.

Green chillies sambal

As I understand the authentic Minang dishes are their rendang daging, daging dinding, daging tetel and two different chilies sambal which green and red chilies. These chilies sambal are not grinded with machine but they are manually crushed with stone crusher or lesung or batu giling by hand, as the texture of the sambal will not be too fine. I learnt that Minang cooking is hot because they use lots of chilies but I can take it, anyway. Perhaps if any of you who know or come from Minang ancestor can share the Minang cooking or dishes here.