Malaysian Makanan

Another Jubiventure! Jubi and I out on the town! That means we meet up, head out for an early dinner and head home before it gets too dark and cold! Oh yeah, living on the edge!

Its the easiest place to find.

We picked this place because it had good reviews, Jubi had never had Malaysian food and I really like Malaysian food. Here is their menu.

Entrees and specials!

Favs and seafood

Deep fried battered?

All the rice

I picked this juice to have, while Jubi was happy to have the chilled water. Its an Apple Tree juice, they just have blends of apple juice with other stuff. It states on the bottle that its just 100% apple juice and I believe that. Its one of the sourest juices I've ever had the displeasure of tasting. If there was sugar on the table, I'd have been pouring spoonfuls down there in order to sweeten it. Jubi isn't a fan of added sugar and even she flinched a little when she had some of this juice.

They gave us extra cute plates when we asked for them. I really like plates in the shape of leaves for whatever reason. Simple and elegant.

I ordered roti canai as my entree. Roti canai is always delicious, no exceptions. God I love roti, so golden brown, delicious, crunchy and flaking into a billion different pieces all over your hands, plate and clothing. The sauce was okay, very thin, mild and with a slightly greasy mouth feel.

Jubi got the gado gado, she ordered it for the opposite reasons I disliked my first try of gado gado. She loves tofu and salads in general. I was quite puzzled when I saw this to be honest, I had no idea where the tofu was, its that bread textured stuff on the bottom right hand of the picture. It was an odd spongy textured tofu that squished in your mouth, was a bit chewy and absorbed the sauce quite readily. I've not had tofu like that before so unsure what to make of it. The other vegetables were wilted bean sprouts, fresh green beans, carrot and julienned cucumber. Jubi remarked that the satay sauce was much spicier than she liked and was almost too spicy for her to tolerate, when I tasted the sauce it was very sweet, quite spicy and with a gingery scent to the sauce. She scraped off a good deal of the sauce and solely ate the vegetables, saying that she enjoyed the bean sprouts and green beans.

I got the nasi lemak. I was thoroughly disappointed. The coconut rice was quite dry, had no discernable scent of coconut to it and wasn't creamy and rice as it should be. The beef rendang was very dark, with a bitter aftertaste and dry beef despite having been cooked for long enough that the oil had split. I only knew that it was beef rendang from having many other nasi lemaks before, otherwise this would've been a dry mystery meat. The chicken curry was plain, probably from the same sauce as in the roti canai, the chicken pieces were quite small and the potato chunks very large. The sambal sauce was very sweet, and not spicy at all. I did enjoy the hard boiled egg, which thankfully didn't have the grey ring of overboiling. The pickled vegetables were tasty and I always love anchovies.

Jubi was keen to order the short soup which came with six prawn wontons in a plain chicken broth with choy sum pieces, straw mushrooms and carrot pieces. The wonton filling was very tasty but there wasn't a heck of a lot of it as you can see. The majority of the wonton was its wrapper.

I didn't realise it would come up so shiny

The wonton in the wild.

Shed of its protective layers, the wonton emerges.

As you can see we didn't finish our meals.

Malaysian Makanan
Atmosphere: 7, cheap and cheerful Asian takeaway. It has all the hallmarks of your local Asian takeaway, complete with yellowed, overdeveloped pictures of their most exotic dishes.
Service: 8, solid. The waiter was very cautious almost? He nearly approached us several times and since we were immersed in reading the menus, he backed off and came back later. He did this four times before we signaled we were ready to order. They were very prompt with bringing the meals, and gave us our entree first haha. They were very cheerful and greeted everyone who came into the store with great enthusiasm.
Food: 6. I didn't really like the food here to be honest. The portions were plentiful but the flavours weren't too my liking. Initially I wanted to come back to try more dishes, but now I don't think I would.