Nasi Lemak Ayam Taliwang
Boy meets girl, boy falls head over heels, boy marries girl. Thereafter whisks her off to Lombok, Indonesia for their honeymoon, where both totally didn't count on being twitterpated with Ayam Bakar Taliwang - a local grilled chicken mainstay amped up through an intricate agglomeration encompassing asam pedas, kencur (sand ginger), terasi (shrimp paste), candlenuts among various other nitty-gritties. So much so that sparked one madcap idée fixe of betrothing our sacreder than thou nasi lemak institution to it, which they would then, well, merchandize conjointly.
Thus began Nasi Lemak Ayam Taliwang by former flight attendants Noorman Mubarak and Madam Puti Andam Dewi Henry in 2017 at Yishun Park Hawker Centre; fast forward seven years this curious anathema has today sired a ton of "offspring" within shopping malls, coffee shops, hospitals, etc, the original YPHC stall meanwhile horking down consecutive Michelin Plates (2021-2024). Eponymous nominal item aside, traditional nasi lemaks (retrofitted with your usual chicken wing(s), otah, cuttlefish fillet or ikan selar kuning, ie yellowtail scad) are also decidedly, albeit surprisingly, forthcoming.
Sampling and thoughts:
Nasi Lemak Ayam Taliwang ($7.60)
Gunned straight for the Nasi Lemak Ayam Taliwang itself, got knocked sideways proper. Nasi was olfactive cum inexorably lemak, hours-simmered, gula melaka-filliped sambal tumis a swashbuckling powerhouse, and goliathian quarter bird leg — borderline coriaceous notwithstanding — fusilladed taste receptors flavour bomb upon flavour bomb.
Too bad the Taliwang sauce though.....she just ain't the spitfire hottie as anticipated. Damn shame.
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Score: 8.2/10
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Editor's Note: Nasi Lemak Ayam Taliwang subsequently shuttered its branches at Tam Chiak Kopitiam, Solaris @ Kallang 164, Lucky Plaza, Hillion Mall, West Mall and Kim San Leng in 2025-2026, and relocated its Keat Hong Community Club branch in 2025; all existing addresses are furnished below for convenient reference.
Locations
| Kopi House 1990 | Sinfoodie Coffee Shop | Lau Pa Sat Hawker Centre | |
| 820 Tampines Street 81, | 412 Bedok North Avenue 2, | 18 Raffles Quay, | |
| #01-506 | #01-114 | Stall 71 | |
| Singapore 520820 | Singapore 460412 | Singapore 048582 |
| Ci Yuan Hawker Centre | Kopitiam @ Plaza Singapura | Singapore Management University |
| 51 Hougang Avenue 9, | 68 Orchard Road, | 90 Stamford Road, |
| #01-40 | #06-15/20 | #01-73 |
| Singapore 538776 | Singapore 238839 | Singapore 178903 |
| Yishun Park Hawker Centre | Meet & Eat @ 608 | Kopitiam @ PLQ | |
| 51 Yishun Avenue 11, | 608 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, | 10 Paya Lebar Road, | |
| #01-33 | #01-2771 | #04-11 | |
| Singapore 768867 | Singapore 560608 | Singapore 409057 |
| Cantine @ Admiralty Place | Cantine @ Northshore Plaza 2 | KK Women's and Children's Hospital |
| 678A Woodlands Avenue 6, | 418 Northshore Drive, | 100 Bukit Timah Road, |
| #02-05 | #02-07/08/09 | #01-28 |
| Singapore 731678 | Singapore 820418 | Singapore 229899 |
| Gardens By The Bay | K88 Coffee Shop | ||
| 18 Marina Gardens Drive, | 5 Banda Street, | ||
| #01-19 | #01-52 | ||
| Singapore 018953 | Singapore 050005 |
| Cantine @ Canberra Plaza | Kopitiam @ Changi Airport Terminal 3 | |
| 133 Canberra View, | 65 Airport Boulevard, | |
| #01-21/22/23 | #B2-03 | |
| Singapore 750133 | Singapore 819663 |
| Outram Community Hospital | Koufu @ Plantation Plaza | Berseh Food Centre | |
| 10 Hospital Boulevard, | 127 Plantation Crescent, | 166 Jalan Besar, | |
| #02-03 | #03-02 | Singapore 208877 | |
| Singapore 168582 | Singapore 690127 |
| Woodlands Health Campus | Rasapura Masters @ MBS | One Raffles Place | |
| 17 Woodlands Drive 17, | 2 Bayfront Avenue, | 1 Raffles Place, | |
| #B2-05/06 | #B2-49A/50-53 | #B1-20 | |
| Singapore 737628 | Singapore 018972 | Singapore 048616 |
| 777 Coffee Shop | Labrador Tower | Chinatown Point | Ng Teng Fong General Hospital |
| 51 Toa Payoh Lorong 6, | 1 Pasir Panjang Road, | 133 New Bridge Road, | 1 Jurong East Street 21, |
| #01-60/62 | #02-07 | #B1-51B | #02-01 |
| Singapore 310051 | Singapore 118479 | Singapore 059413 | Singapore 609606 |
| Sinfoodie Coffee Shop | Keat Hong Food Centre & Market | Rasa Rasa @ Teck Whye | Happy Hawkers |
| 412 Bedok North Avenue 2, | 253 Choa Chu Kang Avenue 1, | 160A Jalan Teck Whye, | 201 Kim Tian Road, |
| #01-114 | Singapore 680253 | Singapore 681160 | Singapore 160201 |
| Singapore 460412 |
