Never in our entire life that we have come across a valid reason for local people to be so astonished as far as their local food cuisines' origin is concerned.
Nasi Lemak as everyone knows is originated from Malaysia but it is not patented. To comfort some quarters, if there is comfort, the rice and coconut are good friends and the latter can be replaced with fresh milk sometimes to reduce cholesterol in coconuts.
I found a very mysterious origin statement in Reader's Digest - June 2011 as quoted below: -
" NASI LEMAK - Literally "rich rice". It used to be a staple of the fishermen in Malaysia who would fry up the small fish they couldn't sell and have it over a bed of rice cooked in coconut milk and salt. A spicy and delicate sambal concoction accompanies it and it also comes with a simple topping of fried peanuts and ikan bilis [anchovies] and slices of cucumber. "
As I was eating a Secret Recepi cake recently, the cake has become tasteless out of sudden. And the price of the cake has noticeably become dearer and dearer, immediately after I finished swallowing the cake. I was so surprised to see how people frame the definition of Nasi Lemak in such a way that Giffen foods are not so 'Giffen' as compared to the 'Giffen-ness' of the above astonished Nasi Lemak.
And the connotation received by Nasi Lemak is that it is a street food. Well, well, well.
I am not arguing the above out of proportion or to ridicule. But to readers, especially those who never eat Nasi Lemak, it is a taste that will astonish you not so much of the origin, but of small fish as founded by Reader's Digest Asian Edition.
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