It's Malaysian restaurant.
First, the environment. Mahogony wooden furnitures gives the feel of classic south east asian feel. Good source of lightings from the downlights coupled with 3 decorative lamps combined to bring a nice relaxing ambience to the place. There are pictures of different types of chillies to bring home the point of 'spice' (as their name suggest). However, even though I said that the ambience is relaxing, when the crowd starts arriving, the place is noisy... like really noisy .. you will really need to talk a bit loudly than you normally would in order to get yourself heard. Today's crowd is comparably less crowded and it's still noisy.
When you enter into the restaurant, they will bring you to a table as well as the menu. Choices galore on the menu on the front and back. Once you've decided what you wanted to eat, you can make your way to the counter and make your order. You would have to pay on the spot. The cashier on duty has good grasp of english and knowledgeable on their food on the menu. I've overheard her conversation with the customer before me where she explained the difference between the 'normal' laksa and the Sarawak laksa listed on their board. I made my orders shortly after. It was quick.
The food though took awhile to arrive. To be fair, the cashier did politely inform me before I made my orders that they are fairly busy, and there will be a 'slightly' longer than usual wait.
Anyhoo. The drinks were served first. Milo Dinosaur and Teh Tarik. Dinosaur is cold milo topped with milo powder. (They also have the Milo Godzilla which is topped with icecream.) Teh tarik is pulled froth milk tea (wonder if that's the right description :/) The taste are alrighty. Nothing too fancy, or really blows me away.
Next came the entree dish - Deep fried fish balls. I like the taste, reminds me of the fishballs I can buy back in Singapore's pasar malam(street market).
The beef nasi lemak came. That's my wife dinner. I had tasted a bit. Good coconut aroma from the rice. That's a plus. The rendang beef is indeed spicy. And slight salty, but tasty. Coupled with the hard boil egg, sliced cucumbers and ikan billis, her dinner is a fair 4 star.
My dinner came last. Beef hor fun. First impression. Not enough chopped green chilli served together, one look and I can see 3 chopped pieces only.. I mean, what's the point then. :/ This is served with some bak choy and slice beef. They are all stirred fried together. The beef is chewy, but not too hard. Still ok. It's the sauce that I'm not really a fan of. It's fairly watery, resulting in a rather bland taste tonight. I would say that the portion is rather small also. Overall, I would say that the beef hor fun at Nanyang (if that place is still around, I haven't swing by for a while now.. haha) is way better.
Overall, considering the good and meh. This is definitely a place I would still visit. First, it's down southern end from the city, which is nearer to where I live, plus the choices of south east asian food definitely means that I can try other food as well. I'm not a good spice eater, but good spicy food are rather hard to come by in this city. So yeah, I'll be back. :) read more