Malay nasi lemak restaurant in Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur

Nasi Lemak Wanjo

Thirteen Ways To Be Right

3.5 of 5

Wanjo started as a small stall in 1963 and has turned into a sprawling operation across two buildings, with a dining hall, a juice bar and a kitchen that never seems to rest. The same family has run it for three generations. That is the whole story, really. Nobody got here with a branding agency. They got here by frying chicken for sixty years.

The menu offers 13 variations of nasi lemak, which is thirteen ways to be right. Start with the basic plate and a boiled egg at about RM5.50, then step up to fried chicken at RM11.50, or ask for beef curry or seafood sambal. Fresh juices come from the juice bar. Do not go looking for teh tarik, because they do not make it, and the staff will not be moved by your disappointment.

Kampung Baru is a village inside the city, wooden houses squeezed under the towers, and Wanjo is its best-known canteen. It is four minutes on foot from Kampung Baru LRT, so there is no excuse to skip it. Come hungry, come in a group, and be patient. A 2026 write-up confirms it is still going strong.

Order this

Basic nasi lemak with egg, Nasi lemak with fried chicken, Beef curry or seafood sambal variations, Fresh juice

The damage

$

Go

Breakfast or lunch, on a day you can wait

Find it

Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur (street address not confirmed)

Website

nasilemakwanjo.net