Many of us are willing to travel far in search of good food, but if we just look more closely at places surrounding us, there are gems we often missed, and there’s probably a Chinese proverb that explains this.
The nasi lemak at Wisma Genting Food Court (between Wisma Genting & Wisma Cosway) is one such places for me. It is often regarded as one of the best nasi lemak in KL, but for some reasons it took me almost two years to finally try it despite working just a stone’s throw away.
food court between Wisma Genting and Wisma Cosway
Wisma Genting food court is situated right between Wisma Genting and Wisma Cosway, and sometimes mistakenly referred to as the Wisma Cosway food court. It is a semi open area that was probably first designed as a walkway in the architect’s drawing.
The nasi lemak seller is situated at the stall closest to the entrance, and you really can’t miss it. There’s almost always a line of office workers queueing up at the stall.
piping hot and very fragrant rice, reasonably priced as well
The nasi lemak here is comes steamy hot, and there are plenty of different side dishes you can choose from to go along with the basic – rice, hard boiled egg, cucumber, anchovies, peanuts, and sambal. For my breakfast, I chose cuttle fish, alternatives include fried chicken, fried egg, fish ball look-alike-thingy, curry chicken, and more.
The nasi lemak is a bit wetter than usual, and definitely much warmer than the “usual” ones. It was delicious and all those ingredients compliment each other perfectly. For those who appreciate breakfast to be warm and full flavor, this is a place to be. I think it is also right up there with other popular nasi lemak places such as Village Park at Uptown, Nasi Lemak Tanglin near the National Mosque, and Nasi Lemak CT Garden at Kampung Baru.
nasi lemak, kuih, curry puff, and meehun too
Other than nasi lemak, the same stall also offers quite a good choices of traditional Malay breakfast dishes such as currypuff, meehun goreng, begedil, and more.
If you work around the area, check this out, if you don’t, find an excuse to go there before 10-11 am to give it a try.
Address:
Wisma Genting Food Court
Wisma Genting, Jalan Sultan Ismail
Bukit Bintang, 50540Â Kuala Lumpur
GPS:Â 3.150407, 101.711326
You work for petronas?
Chaos: not directly. 😀
Indirectly. No wonder you always got petronas lobang 🙂
Chaos: mana ada lubang leh. haha
ooo, u ticked all the magic words i want for my nasi lemak … wet … warm … very fragrant 😀
Sean: yesss, very delicious 😀
I ate here a lot when I used to work here last time. I guessed that’s why I looked chubbier back then!
FiSh: perhaps it’s time to eat more! haha.
I don’t even know there is this foodcourt here. I was there several months ago but did not know what to eat and ended up in Coffee Bean or was it Starbucks? Oh gawd, I have a memory of a goldfish! >_<
Submerryn: hahaa, so many things to eat around the area!
The food court looks unique, somewhere between the building? I like my nasi lemak not to be too wet but must the sambal must be GOOD! That’s the only criteria, haha.
Ken: yeap it’s right in between Wisma Genting and Wisma Cosway
Is it only available in the morning? Not too sure if you try the one at Alor before…it’s pretty good too in my opinion.
JD: it’s only in the mornings. guess I’ll have to check out the Jalan Alor version then!
Yes this is one of my favourite nasi lemak when I was working in KL. The fish and curry chicken is must try item.
Jay: sweet!
not as advertised
the nasi lemak tasted poorly and can be improved
7 plates from us.
only 1 can finish his nasi lemak
azree: ahhh this was 9 years ago I guess some things changed.. unfortunately.