Mamak

It has been a while since I have had a decent meal at a restaurant so today I decided to treat myself. Luckily I was able to make an impromptu plan with Aadil to got to Mamak in the city. I had heard about it from a few people and the place was also the Editor's Choice for the Best Asian Food by the Good Living Guide.
My exposure to Malay food is limited to a bit of Chinese Malay food that I have sampled at a restaurant called Sambal in North Ryde. The food there has been consistently good but not outstanding. Anyways we finally did get to Mamak at 9 on a friday evening, had to wait for just about 10 mins for a table. The staff were not too bad in terms of service. Everyone spoke tolerably good english but they could do with some more enthusiasm.

Sambal udang

I guess where the place lacks in service and ambience (there isn't any itz just a long narrow room) it makes up for in terms of food. We started with some prawns in sambal sauce called Sambal udang ($18) which was a decent portion size. The prawns were cooked just right and not overcooked the sambal was just the right touch of spice.

Chicken Satay

The other starter we had was a plate of Chicken Satay ($8 for 6 pieces) which again when had with the spicy peanut sauce was above average.Roti telur bawang

The star of the meal was the house speciality i.e roti. I had the Roti telur ($6) which is egg roti and Aadil had Roti telur bawang ($6.5) i.e egg and onion. He liked it so much that he decided to skip the prawns and order another one.

For drink I had the Limau ais($3.5) which is a lemonade and Aadil had Teh halia ($3.5) i.e. tea with a hint of ginger. It did good for his sore throat and tasted pretty good, reminded me of a Masala chai in India.Cendol

I wrapped up the meal with Cendol ($5) i.e starch noodles made from fresh pandan leaves with gula-melaka syrup, coconut milk and shaved ice. I have never tasted pandan before but the noodles didn't seem to have much flavour but the iced coconut milk helped fight the heat of the night and end the meal on a rather sweet note.