Artemidoris: Nasi Lemak Berlauk Senibong

I brought my close friend to have the famous Nasi Lemak Berlauk at Senibong last Sunday. To JB people, Senibong "Nasi lemak" and the "Satay" are the "must eat" dishes for all visitors to Johor Bahru.

According to my colleague, Senibong was once a small plantation estate, with a few Malay village houses dotted along the coastline. Now, the estate is gone but the village still stays and it has transformed itself to be a place for seafood lovers.

There are a few good Chinese styled seafood restaurants at Senibong but I have to say they are not for average households because 1 meal (Fish, prawns, crayfish, clams, crabs and fried noodles, with a bottle of wine) for 5 person can easily fetched a RM 700 bill.

Fortunately, there is this Nasi Lemak cum seafood restaurant that also serves divine Satay.

Although the food is a bit pricey when compared to normal Nasi Lemak (RM2 - rice + fried egg + some peanuts + a slice of cucumber and Sambal chili), the food is still considered affordable, value for money and most of all, tasty!

Like most seafood restaurants, this Nasi Lemak restaurant is also built on stilts and extended its dining area to the sea front; overlooking the Tebrau Straits with Singapore's mangorove coastline and Refinery in sight.

The above picture is a Malay styled Seafood restaurant. It is not the Nasi Lemak restaurant that I have been talking about. In fact, the Nasi Lemak restaurant is located just beside this well decorated and brightly lighted restaurant.

In fact, the Nasi Lemak restaurant looks truly humble, basic and rustic. It is painted in sky-blue color, with green light bulbs go round the restaurant.

The restaurant's exterior and interior is really Basic and Rustic compared its neighbours but its business is so much better than its neighbours. Ha ha!

Entrance of the restaurant. The picture is taken from inside

This restaurant was packed with diners during dinner time. Service was somehow suffered as we have to wait for more than 20 minutes before our Nasi Lemak was served.

Luckily, we also have ordered some other dishes like the Fried Calamari to fill our stomach first.

It is crispy on the outside and tender in the inside... It goes very well with chili sauce or even by its own. Yummy!

The "Star" dish ---The Satays.

The beef satays taste so much better, very flavorsome and tenderer than the chicken satays.

Here comes the Nasi Lemak Berlauk. Customer can choose either Fried Chicken, Sambal Chicken, Curry Chicken, Rendang Chicken or Curry Sotong to go with the rice.