Mamaku Kitchen

Did you know that I love Indonesian food? It's like my top 5 cuisines to eat out, like Thai, Indonesian, Malaysian, all the Middle Eastern cuisines and Japanese. Notice that Vietnamese isn't there because I can cook that at home. Also American comfort food, cause I love burgers and fried chicken but not every other aspect of that cuisine.

There's a very small amount of parking at this place, its along Sandgate road and in the same section as the Night Owl!

This place!

I didn't take any photos of the interior cause nearly every table as taken up . . . all ten of them! It's tiny, tiny little spot. Here is a copy of their menu!

I went with Manda and rather than let her pick, I just committed and picked a few dishes for us to share. The first thing we got was this home made pork crackling! Manda sang this dishes' praises as it reminded her of the old fashioned pork crackling you could get in bags. It was perfectly puffy, well seasoned and had a great crunch. She was talking to me and I was trying my best to look interested as I continued to stuff them in my mouth. We both agreed that to satisfy our fattiness, we really needed about $20 worth of pork crackling.

Mmmmm crackling

We were both iffy about the addition of the kale salad to this chicken satay dish but in the end it ended up being our second favourite dish of the night! The chicken was bland, tender but bland in the way that plain chicken can be. We both agreed that we both enjoyed it when you got a ton of peanut sauce to dunk it in, not that we found anything particularly tasty with the peanut sauce. 

The real winner was, and I can't believe I'm saying this, THE KALE SALAD. Or rather it's dressing, it was a rich, creamy, peanutty, slightly sour dressing that coated all the leaves of the kale salad and contrasted beautifully against the richness of the other dishes. I like the kale salad and dressing so much, I'd have happily shelled out top dollar for a giant bowl of the stuff.

FEED ME KALE SALAD

We got the lamb curry with potato pieces. The potato pieces were quite large and slightly starchy, they were very filling. The lamb pieces were fall apart tender but we found the flavour of the sauce to be quite bland? Like it needed a good whack of salt or some more spices to entice the taste buds. Both Manda and I both agreed that despite being well cooked, the flavour wasn't to either of our liking.

Pass

We got the vegetarian mi goreng to be healthy, it came out looking like a great jumble of carrot, kai lan, scrambled egg, thick egg noodles, spring onions and a scattering of fried onion pieces. We both love noodles and could have ignored this dish, the noodles were great but the dish needed more salt! At least we were healthy with our low sodium and ton of veggies noodle dish?

I've had better!

We did not finish our food ):

Stuffed!

Mamaku Kitchen
Atmosphere: 7, tiny, tiny little cafe, I think its really cute though with its ingredients in jars and family photos.
Service: 4, a bit slapdash, considering the space is so small, I felt like it was hard to get the server's attention. I remember our waiter zoned out and we couldn't get his attention so we could order. Also we got given the wrong food, even though our order was taken correctly :/
Food: 5, pretty average. Not good enough that we would go back again, its a shame cause the menu looked fantastic.