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First of all, let me say I'm no Singaporean/Indo/Malay food expert.
I have been to Singapore once and have tried most of the Indo/Malay restaurants in the city that I know about. For me, this restaurant serves food the most similar to what I ate in Singapore. My Indonesian friend recommended this place to me and I've been loving it since.
It's true that the spices here are milder than what I had there, yes, I do wish for stronger spices here. But after so many trials of other supposedly authentic places in the city (Restauran comes to mind, which to me is just Chinese food trying to be Indo/Malay), this place just gets better and better, and more authentic in my mind it seems.
Some of the dishes I have tried the last few times I've been that I'd recommend are:
Popia: these are a fresh spring roll. Similar to Filipino "fresh lumpia". Fresh-wrapped (not fried, and also not similar to Vietnamese rice fresh wrap rolls) and filled with a combination of fresh and cooked vegetables, ground meat and in this case sausage. Comes with two, cut into bite-sized pieces.
Veggie salad with peanut sauce (I forgot the name): this was very refreshing, a nice way to have salad in winter as well. Plate came with cooked cabbage, al dente green beans, sliced boiled eggs, al dente bean sprouts, fried slices of tofu, and small shrimp chips on top.
Hainanese Chicken: Steamed chicken served with rice cooked in chicken stock. Served with several sauces. There are many Chinese restaurants in the city that serve their versions of this so I'd probably pick the other dishes to order here over this one.
Laksa Noodle soup: Rice noodles in a coconut curry gravy with shrimp, egg and chicken as garnishing.
Hokkien Prawn Mee: vermicelli and yellow noodles fried with shrimp, sliced cuttlefish and pork bits.
Beef Rendang: addictive, coconut and slightly spicy, easily pulled-apart succulent beef stew. Ordered roti with this, heaven!
Nasi Lemak: I ate this for breakfast every day in Singapore. A plate served with coconut-scented rice (heaven) with a small deep fried whole fish, boiled eggs, cucumber, fishcake wrapped in leaves, and slightly spicy shrimp paste sauce (I would like more spice in this). A little bit of everything makes this dish heaven for me.
Fried fish served in leaves with Sambal - crispy and addictive.
Martabak - a wrapped roti canai filled with minced meat curry with eggs and onion. Would prefer spicier but this was gooood. Served with hot curry (which again, I would like spicier).
Teh tarik: this is a tea that is mixed with carnation milk and 'pulled' from one mug to another to create a froth when served. I had this a lot in Singapore.
Chendol - icy drink with coconut milk and pandan leaf flavoured jelly bits and red bean. Refreshing, slightly too sweet but these icy Asian drinks (whether Indo Malay / Filipino or Chinese) are always too sweet for me.
I know they fry their shrimp paste there themselves (or maybe use a jarred one and add to it?) as I came once during lunchtime and the place reeeeeked (but for me, in a delicious way but not for my then pregnant-friend) of it!
Décor is simple, looks like a quiet Chinese Restaurant inside. There are many tables inside but I'm not sure how well it would accommodate very large groups. Impressively clean. Food is always served fairly quickly. I will be back again and again!
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