Walking pass “Labarador Malay Stall”, i spotted someone having his Lontong, the colour of the “kuah” (gravy) was so intriguingly yellow that made me turn around and ordered one myself.
I asked for extra rendang which resulted in doubling the price from regular lontong $3 to $6 for lontong with additional rendang. Fair enough.
Lontong sayur is a common Malay breakfast in Indonesia including in Padang.
Lontong means rice cake and sayur means vegetables. There are many different versions with different vegetables, could be just the classic cabbage carrot and long bean or the exotic ones like young jackfruit or fern tips.
This one is the classic one found in many places in Singapore with cabbage and long beans, with extra friend bean curd/tofu and boiled egg plus serundeng (spiced grated coconut) on top made it so appealing.
And the taste.. I was hooked ! It was so good, not so strongly heavy/lemak but it has a good balance of the spices all together, dominantly turmeric i have to say (which i really like) with galangal and lemongras.
I have tried their Nasi Padang before which was ok, but this lontong sayur is one of the best i’ve had in Singapore.