This was the first time I visited this place and was confused because all my friends recommended me the pasta, in a Middle Eastern food restaurant. I insisted on ordering the same themed food as the restaurant, so I ordered a dish called Shishtawok.
It is apparently an Arabic barbecue chicken dish marinated with herbs and spices before it is grilled. Aside from the chicken, it is served with Arabic bread, salads, and garlic dipping. I didn't know the proper way to eat this dish so I tried my own way. I hate salad, so I put them away. Then, I cut the chicken pieces inside the triangle cut shaped bread, dashed with enough amount of garlic dipping (or I prefer to call it sauce). The chicken was ok. The herbs and spices flavor tasted similar to tandoori chicken but not as strong. The garlic sauce was lacking of the main star flavor which is garlic and tasted all oily. Overall, the dish was lacking flavor.
I tried to taste my friend's carbonara pasta and the flavor punched right through my tongue. I guess it's the work of the MSG because my friend felt so thirsty some moments after we were out of the restaurant.
Although I don't smoke, I observed that this place is also famous for their shisha and vape. They allow you to vape indoor after 11.30 PM.
An impromptu trip to the bakery known for its salted egg croissant. Actually, I went there to hunt down their melty chocolate croissant but the only flavor left was the famous salted egg filling. I felt so ironic.
The pastry was warm after the server reheat the croissant. The golden brown color and crispy layered buttery skin will make crusty sound on your mouth. The golden yellow salted egg yolk filling running out of cracked open pastry. The filling is sweet but nothing really shines about everything else.
I hope to taste another flavor of croissant from this bakery after this salted egg yolk hype is over.
This place is on top of my list for comfort food! They sell ayam penyet, meatballs (fried and soupped), fried catfish, rawon and fried finger food. My regular order will be nasi soto ayam with two bakwan (vegetable fritters)!
Soto ayam is yellow soup which is made from spices like ginger, candlenut, turmeric (this makes the soup yellow!) with lime added to add the acidity goodness for the soup. It contains chicken, beansprouts, and glass noodles. This is the most similar taste that I can get from a soto dish here. I can taste the spices where most Indonesian restaurant in Malaysia only serve soto as a yellow colored soup with celery leaves flavor. Only sometimes I have to add more salt into my soup. Believe it or not, the soto will taste more delicious on rainy days! The bakwan is okay. I always order this to add something crunchy to my meal. Remember to ask them to refry the bakwan or other finger foods that you order.
This place is really recomended as I eat here every weekend. The place is opened by a Javanese and makes it homey when most of the waiters speak to each other with Javanese. Aside from that, the prices are super affordable!
For location : it is located near Mentari and Ridzuan Apartment in Petaling Jaya, located in the corner of the block and quite hidden. That's why it is called warung pojok (corner stall)!
In this visit, I actually ordered two pies, savory and sweet pie. First I ordered the Chunky Steak Pie. At first, I doubt the pie would make me full, but I was wrong. When most pies are only full of gravy, this pie however is full of meat chunks. The beef was tender and tasty with some pieces of nicely cooked carrot.
The second pie was Peanut Butter Brownie. The pie is full of warm dark chocolate ganache which complements the peanut butter inside the pie. When I cut the the pie with my fork, the chocholate flowed over my paper plate! Bite size cuts of brownie and small nut chunks gives additional sweetness and texture to the all saucy filling of the pie. This pie easily joined the list of my top chocolate dessert list!
Now I know what to order for my next visit to this place!
First, let me say this before I start my review, the interior design is awesome! I love their hanging cloud lamp in the middle back of the cafe!
Moving on, I had their soft serve creation called Nom Nom Nom. For the soft serve choice, I chose to twist both blue pea gula melaka and strawberry rose. The creation itself is lightly based and sprinkled with feuilletine flakes with additional langue de chat.
The soft serve was smooth and creamy enough but I couldn't really taste the gula melaka from the soft serve. On the other hand, the strawberry rose flavor was lovely! The taste and the fragrance is just sweet and wonderful! Eat it with the langue de chat and most importantly the feuilletine flakes to add more texture to the soft serve!
For extra review, I was quite disappointed though when I saw lots of flavors on the menu but I could only choose 2 flavors that were only available on that day, which none of them were my favorite choices
This cloudy ice cream is called The Sweet Day. Salted caramel ice cream on a dark colored handmade cone, I wasn't sure what the flavor of the cone was. Drizzled with butterscotch sauce, the ice cream is topped with honeycomb and surrounded by cotton candy veil.
This ice cream is very consistent to its name which is very sweet! The honeycomb and and cotton candy is too sweet with a sudden salty sweet taste from the ice cream. The ice cream itself is delicious and creamy, plus the butterscotch sauce, making it even nicer. Sadly, the excessive sweetness doesn't really suit my preference.
Tsujiri is an all-green-tea dessert cafe and tea house. Unfortunately when I came there, there was water disruption on the area resulting the shop not being able to restock their dishes. All what's left was only their other flavor aside from matcha which was houjicha, roasted green tea. Luckily, I was there mainly because of the houjicha ( I am more of a houjicha fan than a matcha fan) and it didn't really disappoint me.
The texture of the soft serve is not that smooth and soft, in fact it tasted more like sorbet with a little bit grainy texture in the ice cream. The houjicha flavor itself is very strong and pleasant. I could clearly taste the toasty flavor of the green tea.
It is very recommended for all houjicha fan out there!
I was quite unsure before I decided to try Miru's honey toast because of my previous experience of having my first but horrible honey toast dish from another cafe. However, the nice reviews took my attention and there I was with their signature Shibuya Honey Toast.
Turns out the food lives up to its kind reviews! The fluffy toast with gracious buttery goodness swiped away all my bad memories of the former horrible toast that I ate. Additional greatness when you combine the warm toast with the rich creamy vanilla ice cream! The plate becomes sweeter with a dash of whipped cream topped with nut sprinkles.
It was really a great dish. The power of this one dish has successfully made me plan my next visit to this beautiful cafe!
The Dark Side is one of Every Sundae's sundae creation which mostly contains chocolate. Visually it looks mouthwatering because I've been looking forward to chocolate flavored dessert for quite sometime.
The dark chocolate sorbet is served with huge chocolate cookie as base, drizzled with chocolate sauce, and finished with generous amount of caramel popcorn. As the menu said, it wasn't ice cream, it was sorbet. The sorbet is light and not too sweet. Probably that 's my bad because I've imagined a creamy chocolate ice cream in my mouth but the one that came was sorbet. On the other hand, the cookie base alone is quite nice.
Overall, I can't really connect the the flavor and texture combination from the cookie, sorbet and popcorn. It's like not all of the elements in the dish are capable of complementing each other completely.
This is the one of the best selling item in this renowned curry house.
Unlike most biryani served in other places, Fierce served dum style biryani. The boneless chicken thigh is cooked along with the long grained basmati rice is cooked nicely with spices. The flavors will then be sealed inside the container with roti dough. This dish is also accompanied with vegetable raita, achar, and of course a generous amount of curry sauce to be enjoyed with the biryani. The fragrant hot steam filled the room when the lid was opened, teasing everybody's appetite. I am not a fan of spicy food, nevertheless the chicken biryani managed to balance the heat of the curry by complementing each other's flavor. The achar and raita gives the additional freshness to the overall dish.
It was a really wonderful biryani experience!
Despite the specials of the day which was biryani, we decide to sample some snacks to lighten up our hot day. Samosa and mix pakoda was the snacks of choice, then accompanied by a glass of masala chai and Ganga amrit.
The samosas were crunchy outside and fluffy inside with generous amount of filling packed with heat and flavor. The mix pakodas were light and crunchy with some typical Indian spice and herbs flavors. Both dish served with a same sauce which taste tamarind sauce which tasted sweet and sour.
It was my first time trying out masala chai and it turned out that I wasn't really a fan of that drink, but I love the Ganga amrit. The combination of milk, honey, and rose syrup matched my tastebuds preference for sweetness.
In addition, The Ganga Cafe doesn't only provide you with good food but also a sanctuary. Their service was excellent and they even gave the freshly combined mint, lemon, lime, and tea drink called Ganga tea cruch as a compliment! What could be better than a great place to hang and good food combined together?
Idli Only Cafe shares the same place with Indian Kitchen in Jalan Maarof.
Cheese naan, butter podi idli and panankalkandu paal were ordered and they were amazing except for the cheese naan. The cheese naan tasted dry and not fluffy like it should be. Oddly, the cheese managed to save the naan from the end of the pit.
The other dish, otherwise was a champion. The butter-fried idli, covered with spiced podi, making the idli rich of flavor and full of buttery guilty pleasure. The idlis texture are crunchy outside and fluffy inside. The idlis can be eaten with the complementary chutneys and sambar. All those flavorsome dished sealed with the warm panankalkandu paal which was also very lovely. This drink smells like herb soup, but the taste was surprisingly sweeter than it's smell. The butter podi idli and the panankalkandu paal were definitely champions!
