Nasi Lemak
a food haiku

dried ikan bilis the crispy topping on my rice, my nasi lemak
Ikan Bilis as they are known in Malaysia, Indonesia and Asia are small tiny dried white anchovy fish that the English-speaking world call dried anchovies.
Nasi lemak — Malaysian coconut milk rice, served with sambal, fried crispy anchovies, toasted peanuts and cucumber.
A hearty quick meal from a Hawker stall!
Tagging Carolyn Hastings | Mil H. | Evan Wildstein | Swagat Choudhury | Celeste Tsang| Melissa Bee | Aimée Gramblin| Hilda Carroll if you’re up to it and anyone else interested in today’s prompt: anchovies 👀
Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) hilariously didn’t link the concept of what an anchovy was (in its many forms across the world) to the English word anchovy for the longest time. She actually really likes anchovies, probably because of exposure to them as a kid, but keeps this opinion hush hush sometimes because so many people have surprisingly strong opinions about them 😅
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