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| - In a city where malaysian food is so hard to find - I really wanted to like this place. I didn't.
We arrived at 1120 and were the only people in the restaurant - it took 20min for someone to take our order. One waitress was vacuuming and others scurrying were around taking care of a large catering order.
Having rarely eaten Malaysian since arriving in Canada 18mo ago we were excited and ordered 3 dishes:
1. Har mee (prawn noodles) - only cooked on the weekends - must be special!
- it looked great, 3 large prawns, a big bowl, thick noodles
- unfortunately the soup was so watery with little prawn flavour it could have just been instant noodles
2. Mee Siam. When this came out I was like, wow, has it been so long since I've eaten Mee Siam that I've forgotten what it was???
So I wikipedia'd it to check if my memory was faulty:
Mee Siam , () which means "Siamese noodle", is a dish of thin rice noodles (vermicelli) in spicy, sweet and sour light gravy.
No, my memory was correct. The dish that was served was basically fried bee-hoon (thin noodles) with some tasteless watery gravy - slightly sweet but certainly not spicy, not sour. My wife suggested it was sweet chilli sauce, but bottled sweet chilli sauce would have tasted better.
3. Roti chanai with chicken curry
Finally something that tasted authentic. Given the other 2 dishes I was worried the roti would be microwaved. Instead it was light and crispy. They curry was also great - it's not too spicy and pretty much like what my family makes. Chicken was tender and fell off the bone.
Unfortunately 1 out of 3 is a fail. Not coming back.
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