Unquestionably, the Roti Canai is the delicious signature dish here. Tip: order an extra "pancake"…read moreor "roti". Roti is a general, broad (Sanskrit) term for any type of bread or flatbread, whereas "roti canai" is a specific, popular type of flaky, layered flat bread from Malaysia. This is served with a curry chicken sauce, but really there is not a lot if chicken, android the pancake is crispy, layered, fluffy, piping hot, and unbelievably good. The curry is like a butter chicken, Indian influenced curry.
As mentioned, this is at heart a Malaysian restaurant but also served Chinese and Thai classics.
Also unquestionably, the decor could use some serious help by the Restaurant Impossible crew. It feels cramped and like a Halloween costume of a Chinese or Asian restaurant, lacking any character or charm, almost a caricature.
The service is attentive, but most likely students from nearby Furman University and less experienced, but nice. It is somewhat amusing to me for some reason when, mid-meal, the waitress arrives to the table with a pitcher of ice water and looks at our empty water glasses to ask "would you like more water?"
It was lunchtime. Not very crowded. The roti was superb. The $4.00 "pork egg roll", howevre, was a single, skinny, overcooked, under stuffed appetizer with a thin duck sauce accompanying it and tasting like a commercially premade dish or a frozen selection from the grocer. Never to be ordered again. The main I chose was the chicken bulgogi lettuce wrap, which was served with romaine lettuce (not the classic cold, crunchy iceberg as at most places. The bulgogi was overly ratioed with diced water chestnuts in excess to the chicken pieces and it was also very sweet and nothing like classic bulgogi about it. The ingredients for bulgogi might be in this dish, but the composite wasn't the thinly sliced "fire meat" (what the word bulgogi means) I expected. It had chunky chicken, not slices and the sauce was overly sweet and gloopy (too much corn starch) and no heat spiciness. I really did not care to finish this dish.
My wife had a serviceable Tom Yum soup that she said she would never order again.
We do eat out frequently at Korean and Thai restaurants and these dishes really are not on the same level. But, the Roti Canai is so good, we will definitely be back to eat again. Five plus stars for Roti Canai.