Ayam Goreng Kunyit

An all-time favourite fried chicken marinated in turmeric. You can easily find this in almost every Malay or Thai restaurant, and believe me, those "Kedai Yom Yum" usually have the best ones... A must try for those who never had some. It's not spicy, or oily. Best taken with freshly cooked plain rice or fried rice. YUMS!

Recipe:

300-500gm chicken fillets/breast, cut into slim pieces

1 tablespoon turmeric powder

1 tablespoon fish sauce

A pinch of salt

1/2 yellow onion, sliced

1 small clove garlic, chopped

1 cup of thinly sliced carrots, green beans, celery - any of your favourite veges)

1. Marinate chicken with turmeric powder, fish sauce and salt. Mix well. 

2. Heat up a wok, with 3 tablespoon oil. When oil is really hot, fry the chicken. Stir always.

3. Add in the rest of the ingredients, stirring.

4. When chicken is cooked, turn off heat. Stir to ensure the veges cook as you'd like it. It doesn't take too long as they're thinly cut.

5. Serve with rice! Enjoy!!

Saba @ Seri Maya

Saba restaurant, at Seri Maya, Jalan Jelatek.

Nice little restaurant, friendly staff, not too crowded. Great Arab food, and reasonable price. Popular amongst locals and the Arab students and community around here too.

It was the 6 of us plus a baby. We ordered a few kabsah, lamb and chicken. Some breads - what looked like turkish bread and also something else... I forgot what, but all are delicious.

This is a finely blended bread and banana in a creamy base. Delicious as a dessert.

Something from the grill, westerny one... for the kids ;-)

Oooh, the kabsah with chicken... yums!

One of the breads. It really looked like roti canai, but tastes different. Nice. Suppose to eat it with honey, but we dipped with hummous. I love, love loveeee hummous.

Kabul at Sooka Sentral

Took a detour from my usual lunch spots and together with some friends, we headed to Sooka. One of them friends suggested this place and since the rest of us had never had it before, we got curious and hungry to try....

Kabul is on the 1st floor of Sooka Sentral, right next to Kelantan Delights. A simple restaurant, nice chandeliers and lights, friendly peeps. They do delivery service too, within Sentral if I am not mistaken.

The menu is easy to read and most items in the menu are cleverly displayed - without which, those unfamiliar with the cuisine will not have an idea of how the dish looked like. I think pictorial menu is so "in" these days, as most restaurants offer so many different types of food. It is easy to browse the menu, I love all of them! 

There were many patrons during the rushy lunch hour on a Friday afternoon. Well, it is Sentral afterall. Prices are average, but the portions are small, really. A bowl of lamb masala or butter chicken would have 2-4 small pieces of the meat, and some gravy, enough for one. Best to order a few different dish and share.

Above is the butter chicken. I have no idea why it is really shocking orange... but it does taste wonderfully creamy and buttery. Chicken is also soft.

Each of us ordered roomali roti (if I remember the name correctly). It is very similar to chapati, soft and thin. We ate them with the butter chicken, chicken curry, dhal, fried okras, lamb masala. 

My plateful of some of the dishes. Colourful and I just could not wait to devour!

Fried okras. This is just. so. delicious!!! It has a mil curry flavour and fried with onions and dried chilis. Nothing spicy, really. Just soo flavourful and yums.

Our total bill for 4 peeps was RM77+. Plus drinks of course, I had the masala chai, the rest had mango lassi,  etc... They also have fresh cows' milk to have the masala chai with!

What are your Kitchen Must Haves

I am soon to have a new kitchen. A more properly equipped one - that is, a real built-in oven. What are the essential must-haves in a kitchen - besides ofcourse, the basic stuffs like pots n pans and knives and ....

I need a good blender, mixer, oven-related accessories, a big pair of pot n pan, maybe some nice aprons, and a bunch of new stuffs like herbs and spices rack...

If you have any ideas and suggestions, it wod really help me design and equip the kitchen better, and perhaps save a bunch of kachinggsss on what brand to buy!

Below image from images.art.com.

Delicious, Bangsar Village II

Was looking forward to having Sakae Sushi but it is no longer there and was replaced by Senyu (forgot how its spelled) Sushi... What a disappointment! I was craving for the spicy tofu soup, chawamushi and sushis....

Ended up going to Delicious. Have been hearing all sort of hype about this place... so went there to witness for myself, how good this place is...

A signage said to wait to be seated. There was no one to greet us, so we went ahead in and was seated shortly by someone. Menu looked old and torn on some pages... Not that its important but it would be wise to invest in keeping your Menu Booklet clean and appealing. Very simple menus, lack of visual displays... It was hard to decide what to try but I am going with pasta - called Napolicious while F chose a lamb shank dish.

We ordered and the meals came timely. No time wasted. As it was a quick lunch, I ordered something simple. The food was ok... big portion for such price.

The Napolicious is very garlicky, and too much of pasta sauce on the plate which really drowned the pasta. It had bits of crispy bacon in it. Very creamy. I could not finish it really.

Before that, we shared a small French Onion Soup, that came with bread and cheese topping. This was nice, but the soup was not warm. Would had been nice to have a warm soup to start my lunch.

The Lamb Shank came with rice and cucumber with raita. Fairly nice dish and lamb was quite soft.

Would come again to try others on the menu offered, and maybe try a different outlet too. And recently read that E&O also has some shares in this biz thus why they also opened an outlet i. Straits Quay, Penang. Looking forward to their new chain too, Deli. :-)