Satay-Mu

Do not judge a book by it’s cover

Walk­ing down James street return­ing from a team lunch last week, I noticed a menu in a win­dow stat­ing Malay­sian Food, not know­ing there was even a res­taur­ant there, I noted noth­ing other than the loc­a­tion vow­ing to return later as I really enjoy good malay­sian food.

On return I found a little non­des­cript cafe in front of a com­bin­a­tion pool hall/karaoke space. Not deterred, I checked the menu in the win­dow out, it was rather long and had all the usual malaysian/singaporean food I adore, so I entered and ordered a per­sonal favour­ite Kway Teow.

The ser­vice was good and fast, my meal was with me was me in a few minutes, while you could not see the kit­chen from the cafe, you could hear the cook­ing as the ingredi­ents meet­ing a very hot wok. The serving was gen­er­ous, looked great and tasted good. I have eaten Kway Teow many times and while it did not match my per­sonal favour­ites from Tak Chee & the now defunct Singa­pore Indian Malay­sian Cuisine it came close, beat­ing every­one else.

The ingredi­ents where fresh, not over­cooked, with all the right spices and with the slightly greasy pep­pery after taste I expec­ted. Not enough chilli for my taste, how­ever, cut chilli was provided. I will be def­in­itely be going back to explore more from the menu. A likely can­did­ate for a reg­u­lar lunch spot, good food, fast ser­vice and cheap at $9.60 (with cur­rent 20% off intro­duct­ory offer).

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