Nasi kapau is Minangkabau steamed rice topped with various choices of dishes, originated from Nagari Kapau, Bukittinggi, a tourism and culinary hotspot town in West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is often described as a Minang version of nasi ramas or nasi campur (mixed rice).
A nasi kapau food stall usually consists of stages and rows of large bowls, plates or saucepans filled with various dishes. In nasi kapau food stalls, after the customer is seated, they are asked which dishes they desire. The waiter then prepares hot steamed rice on a plate with cubadak (unripe jackfruit gulai), and boiled cassava leaf, and sambal on the side. The chosen dishes will be put directly — using long serving spoons — upon the steamed rice or in separate small plates. Nasi kapau eating establishments usually insist on using high-quality fragrant rice directly brought from Bukittinggi and Agam Regency.