Kalau ke Penang tak sah kalau tak makan nasi kandar dan ada bermacam macam pilihan yang ditawarkan. Ada yang terselit celah lorong, tercongok atas kereta sorong sebelah masjid, dalam kedai kopi Cina ataupun dalam kedai khas nasi kandar.


One of the more interesting nasi kandar is next to Masjid Kapitan Kling in little India. But you have to know that the 'Beratur' version starts business at 10pm. Go any earlier and you will get a different version.

The main draw of the nasi kandar is the 'beratur' part. I suspect that they deliberately slow down the serving to make sure that there is a line.

Four of us went there on a Sunday night and there was a queue of 10 so I grabbed a seat and ordered drinks while the three others took position in the line.

As you can see the place is small, most of the seats are on the pavement which suits the patrons just fine as we Malaysians seem to like our meals alfresco.

The food serving area is a small corner by the side of the restaurant and there a crew of four rush back and fourth refilling curry pots, sending out orders and generally making busy.

The signboard says the proper name of the joint is Restoran Liyaqat Ali - Nssi Kandar Beratur and it has been operating in the same place since 1943, that's 66 years of kandar experience

The queue persisted while we had our meal and died out for a few minutes at aroudn 2am but it pcked up again. According to locals and staff, they usually have a queue of some sort till closing time, around 3am.

Our Meals

1- Fried chicken with curried cuttlefish eggs and vegetable - mixed curry

2 - Curried cuttle fish, curried prawn, vegetable and sambal - sotong curry with prawn curry in a separate saucer

3 - Mutton korma and vegetable - mixed curry

4 - Curry chicken, vegetable and sambal - mixed curry - additional rice with mixed curry