A woman recently took to Threads.com to voice her disappointment with a trader at Bazaar Ramadan Nilai after her RM9 plate of nasi tomato reportedly didn’t taste anything like the traditional dish. She described the rice as sweet, rose syrup-flavoured, and completely lacking the savoury notes expected of nasi tomato.
She said she had bought the meal specifically at her child’s request, only to be met with a dish that bore little resemblance to nasi tomato in both taste and appearance.
“Seriously, this is how you do business?” she wrote, sharing photos of the plate.
Her complaints didn’t stop at the rice. The chicken was tough, the kuah leaned more towards a dessert-like sweetness similar to syrup used in murtabak sides, and the chilli was uncooked, with a noticeable sweet hint from the sirap.
The woman also pointed out the timing — Ramadan, when customers are hungry and time before iftar is short — making the disappointing meal even more frustrating. “It’s not right to run a business like this when people are fasting. Customers pay for food, not to throw it away,” she said.
Her post sparked responses from other users, with at least one claiming to have had the same experience at the same stall. “My child also bought it during the second week of Ramadan. After two mouthfuls, we couldn’t continue. I thought it was a one-off mistake, but it seems to have been the same for weeks,” they commented.
