Original Penang Kayu Nasi Kandar owner and managing director Burhan Mohamed and his wife, Rozan Begam, also presented a memento to Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin. His daughter, ...

Nasi kandar is said to have origins in India and was brought to Malaysian shores by Tamil-Muslim immigrants some 70 years ago, according to an official tourism site by Penang’s state government.