What makes Nasi Dagang special?

Nasi Dagang gives a better meaning when translated as Rice with single dish. To cook nasi dagang takes quite an effort, requires patience, quite tedious cooking tasks. It starts with soaking the rice together with right proportion of glutinous rice and basmati rice overnight to speed up cooking process as well as to give fluffy taste to the rice. The mix then get steamed with the mixture of coconut milk 2 to 3 times to give a creamy taste and flavour. On top of that, some fenugreek seeds with sliced onion and sliced ginger are added to the rice while steaming to give special  fragrance to the rice. Then some salt and sometimes a little bit of sugar is added to give the true taste of Nasi Dagang.

Nasi Dagang is consumed with any curry based dish, mostly fish curry or chicken curry. This curry is prepared with slight differences in the ingredients and spices used according to the practice in Kelantan or Terengganu. in Kelantan the dish is called Gulai Darat i.e mild curry blended with dried chilli paste and creamy coconut milk, thickened with kerisik and brown sugar and tamarind to give a special taste.