Indonesian version of nasi goreng pattaya in Pekanbaru, Sumatra
In Indonesia, this kind of nasi goreng is often called nasi goreng amplop (enveloped fried rice), since the nasi goreng is enveloped within a pocket of thin omelette. However, due to proximity and neighbouring influences, today this kind of fried rice is often also called as nasi goreng pattaya in Indonesia.[5][6] Today, the dish is popular throughout Southeast Asia, it is one of the fried rice variants favourite in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
The name is believed to be derived from Pattaya, a popular beach resort in Thailand.[1][6] However, despite its Thai connotations, the dish is actually more common in Malaysia than in Thailand. The omelette-covered pattaya fried rice is hardly found in Pattaya itself.[3] It is most likely that the dish did originate in Malaysia,[1][2][7] and that the "Pattaya" moniker was probably used for novelty or marketing purposes.
A similar dish exists in Japan, and is called omuraisu (from the English words omelette/omuretsu and rice).[1] It is a fried ketchup-flavoured rice sandwiched with a thinly spread beaten egg or covered with a plain egg omelette.
^ abFebi Anindyakirana (13 July 2017). "Resep Nasi Goreng Pattaya" (in Indonesian). Vemale.com. Archived from the original on 28 June 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
Pattaya fried rice at the Wikibooks Cookbook subproject
