Sri Nirwana Maju

Recommended! Nirwana is really good banana leaf food. Great for breakfast or lunch. Worth trying at least once if you live in the area.

I absolutely love banana leaf rice as it is vegetarian friendly and filling as a full meal. Sri Nirwana is quite well known for their banana leaf rice and a set comes with 3 side dishes (we had cucumber salad, fried bittergourd and some melon curry). It comes with pappadum and deep fried chili. You can also opt for rasam — a tamarind sort of drink that is supposed to cleanse the palate and digestive system from the spicy meal. One thing about eating banana leaf is how fast the service is.
Once you are seated, you are given the leaf as a plate, and soon after 3 side dishes will be plopped onto it with rice and another waiter will come with the curry pots where you can choose the sauce you want to drench your rice with. I chose the dal, which was not too watery and well spiced. If this is not enough for you, you can always order mutton, fish, or chicken to go with your rice at an extra cost.
The fried bittergourd was our favorite as it was perfectly crunchy without any bitter aftertaste. So good! My only disconcerting moment is when we were charged for extra vegetables, which in many other banana leaf establishments comes free of charge. Yes, so if you want an extra order of fried bittergourd, you have to pay extra for it.

Sri Nirwana maju Taipan is a separate outlet run by the same management as the Sri Nirwana Maju in bangsar. They have been listed as one of the top 10 restaurants to go to for a banana leaf meal as per an article by TheStar newspapers back in 2014.
They have limited vegetarian options however they don’t run short on the meat & seafood dishes. Unhealthy but extremely tasty, give their deep fried squid with onions & curry leaves a go! Their standard banana leaf set comes with 3 types of vegetables, rice, papadam, rasam (a spicy & sour soup), acar & unlimited servings of different curries. There will be a surcharge when you request to top up any of the vegetables, remember only the curries are unlimited! You can choose to add on their fried varieties which will be fried on the spot or you can opt for the pre-​cooked masala chicken, masala mutton & sweet kicap chicken.
If you feel the bangsar outlet is too claustrophobic you definitely have an option to come by the Taipan outlet, there’s ample parking space. So don’t get turned off by the heat & crowd, there’s a reason they’re there, the food tasty!