Bruneian Cuisine: Nasi Katok

  April 10, 2022   Read time 1 min
Bruneian Cuisine: Nasi Katok
If you were to translate Nasi Katok, it would be rice knock, which is a bit of a head scratcher. The origin of the name comes from people knocking on the vendors’ doors when they want some.

Usually wrapped in grease proof paper, this dish comes with a bowl of rice, a piece of chunky fried chicken, which part depending on availability, and sambal (dip), which comes as normal or spicy. The best thing about this dish is it is one of the cheapest meal, costing only BND1.50 or BND1 at certain stalls!

Here are all the ingredients in si and us units: (1 tbsp is 15 ml and 1 tsp is 5 ml)1 onion1 onion1 onion6 garlic cloves 3 cm 1 inch gingervegetable oil3 6 ch. “based on local folklore in brunei, nasi katok literally means nasi – rice – and katok – knock. it came from a story where the only way to get food after midnight in the old days was to knock on the door of a food outlet, which led to the sleepy owner preparing a simple dish made of rice and chicken with some sambal sauce.


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