Nasi Lemak - rice cooked in coconut milk, served with ikan billies (anchovies), egg, groundnuts and cooked sambal (chillies). Sold usually at roadside stalls by the Malays or Chinese. (Origin: Malay) .....nasi lemak recipe

Chicken rice or nasi ayam - This is a very popular lunch meal for the Chinese. Chicken rice is white rice cooked with chicken stock and served with roasted, boiled chicken. Chinese stalls also server roasted duck and pork) or roasted and deep fried chicken. Malay food stall now also serve nasi ayam which is usually fried chicken with rice.

Nasi biryrani  - is rice cooked with spices and prepared by placing layers of the spiced rice with pieces of spiced-cooked lamb, mutton or chicken, then garnished with almonds and raisins. (Indian-Muslim or Malay)

Nasi daun pisang (banana leaf rice) - an Indian rice meal served on a banana leave. White rice is served on leaf with an assortment of vegetables, curried meat, fish or vegetables and papadum (crispy cracker made from flour with spices).

Nasi goreng - refers to fried rice. Rice is fried in various styles by the different communities in Malaysia. .....Nasi goreng recipe

Nasi kandar – an Indian-Muslim rice meal of white or spiced rice served with a selection of spicy curry, vegetables and side dishes. Rice is cooked without the meat, unlike nasi biryani. (Indian-Muslim)

Nasi kunyit - yellow rice, cooked from glutinous rice with coconut milk and turmeric; usualy served with chicken curry (Malay and Nyonya)....Nasi kunyit recipe

Nasi Ulam - Nasi Ulam is often prepared by the Malays and Nyonya communities. It is cooked rice mixed with an assortment of herbs and vegetables, salted fish and dessicated coconut, etc...Nasi Ulam recipe

Pulut inti - glutinous rice cooked with coconut milk and served with grated coconut mixed wit palm sugar (brown sugar).

     Rice is also popularly made into Malaysian kueh, especially in the rice growing states of  Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu.

.....more rice recipes