Mamak Stall Culture

Dei, Teh Tarik Satu !
Mamak Stall Culture In Malaysia.
TEO ZHEN RON (FIA)

Table of Content
Introduction
Restaurant Kanna Curry House
Big Tree Head Mamak Stall
7 Food Must Order In a Mamak Stall

Introduction
Mamak stall is a type of restaurant that operate by Indian which are
Muslim. In Malaysia, mamak stall act as a place for people to gather.
Most of the mamak stall have a better business at night. It is because we
Malaysian likes to spend the night time at the mamak stall chit chatting
with friends. The best part to gather at a mamak stall is the food is
cheap and delicious. Most of the time mamak stall wouldn’t have a nice
interior decoration in their stall. Normally their stall design will be
very simple. There are still some of the people that do not like to have
their meal at the mamak stall. It is because some of the mamak stall is
have hygiene issue.

RESTAURANT KANNA
CURRY HOUSE.
LOCATED AT BANDAR
MENJALARA, KEPONG.
BUSINESS HOUR : 7AM-
10PM

RESTAURANT KANNA CURRY HOUSE IS A FAMOUS MAMAK
RESTAURANT AT THE KEPONG AREA. NORMALLY, MAMAK
RESTAURANTS WILL HAVE MORE CUSTOMERS AT NIGHT. THIS
MAMAK RESTAURANT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS. THE
MOST CROWDED TIME FOR THIS MAMAK RESTAURANT IS IN THE
MORNING. MOST OF THE PEOPLE LIKE TO ENJOY THEIR
BREAKFAST AT THIS MAMAK RESTAURANT

RESTAURANT KANNA CURRY HOUSE IS A FAMOUS MAMAK
RESTAURANT AT THE KEPONG AREA. NORMALLY, MAMAK
RESTAURANTS WILL HAVE MORE CUSTOMERS AT NIGHT. THIS
MAMAK RESTAURANT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS. THE
MOST CROWDED PERIOD FOR THIS MAMAK RESTAURANT IS IN
THE MORNING. MOST OF THE PEOPLE LIKE TO ENJOY THEIR
BREAKFAST AT THIS MAMAK RESTAURANT

There are a lot of customers in the
morning. Most of them are enjoying their
breakfast in the mamak stall.

There are some of customers
who just finish jogging at a
park nearby in the mamak stall
as well.

Here are the sauces for the Banana leaf rice. There
are a lot of sauces at these counter. There are fish
curry sauce, chicken curry sauce and some sambal.
After you have ordered a banana leaf rice, you are
able to choose your sauces from here.

The worker is serving the a plastic
banana leaf rice for the customers.

These mamak stall will serve a plastic banana leaf as
a plate for each customer who ordered roti. In few
years back, this mamak stall are serving real banana
leaf for the customers but due to the hygiene issue,
they have changed it to a plastic banana leaf..

There are three types of sauces that this
restaurant provide for the customers to eat with
the roti, which is Dhal, Curry Ikan and Curry.
Customers can choose based on their favour.

Serving Style
The workers will put your roti on to the plastic banana leaf. If you
orders two type of roti, they will put all your roti onto a your plastic
banana leaf as well.

The traditional way
serving the roti.

Culture
According to the stall culture, the customers have to rate the
food by folding the banana leaf upward or downward. If you
folding it downward, that’s mean the food is delicious. If you
folding it upward, that’s mean it is not delicious.

BIG TREE HEAD MAMAK
STALL.
LOCATION: KEPONG BARU,
KEPONG
BUSINESS HOUR : 5PM – 2AM

This mamak stall is considered as the most famous
mamak stall in Kepong area.
This mamak stall is named as Big Tree Head mamak
stall is because it is surrounded by many trees. This
mamak stall is more recognise as a place for the
teenagers to gather. Most of the teenagers like to
gather at these mamak stall is because the food there
is cheap and all the food is delicious.

After dinner, the teenagers like to gather at the
mamak and chit chatting with their friends. They
like to spend their time at the mamak stall.

Here is how the mamak stall looks like on the inside. It is
located beside the road. So most of the car will be double park
beside the road. This mamak stall have around 60 to 70 tables
that can fit around 200 to 300 people. During Friday and
Saturday night, this mamak stall will be full of crowd.

Here is a view of the mamak
stall in the evening. In the
evening, only some family
members will have their
dinner there.

Usually, the mamak owner will air live football matches on a
huge projector screen for their customers to enjoy.
Watching football matches in mamak stall is a whole new
experience as since everyone will cheer for their team. It is
far more exciting than watching alone at home.

This is the place for the workers to prepare the drinks. Although the place
do not look really clean but the drinks are still consider as clean.

The workers will
prepare the nasi lemak
in bulk before serving
it to the customers.
This would increase
their efficiency

Fried Chicken
Here is a photo of the must order food at Big
Tree Head mamak stall. Their fried chicken is
known as the best fried chicken in Kepong
area. Their fried chicken is crispy and have
some taste of the Indian spice. So it is very
delicious.

Roti Cheese

Cheese Naan / Roti Cheese
Next is the food that the stall invented themselves, the
cheese naan. Cheese naan also known as the roti
cheese. The process of making the cheese naan is pretty
similar to the process of making the roti telur. The only
thing different is changed the egg into cheese. Roti
cheese. You have to eat the cheese naan while it is still
hot. While it is still hot, you are able to enjoy the taste
the combination of the melted cheese and the roti.

7 THINGS MUST ORDER IN A
MAMAK STALL
NAIS LEMAK
ROTI KOSONG

MAGGIE GORENG
NASI KAMBING
PAPADUM

LIMAU ICE
TEH TARIK

Mamak is the place that most of the Malaysians like
to gather.Malaysian like to spend their time at
mamak stall with friends or family. During Fifa
World Cup, mamak stall will be twice crowded than
usual. Mamak is the best thing that can represent
Malaysia. So as a Malaysian, we should appreciate
this culture and share it with the next generation as
well.