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| - It's refreshing to see an Asian food vendor that can execute food consistently, holding back nothing for the sake of being in a foreign market. Often with many places, flavours are compromised in an attempt to have a broader appeal. Delicate flavour profiles that balance the sweet, sour, spicy and salty are often much too sweet or terribly bland and unexciting.
Enter Kaffir Lime.
Owner and chef, Junian operates this tiny Indonesian eatery in the atrium of Kingsland Farmers Market making some of the most flavourful, fresh and unforgiving Southeast Asian cuisine in the city. Bold curries with deep and complex flavours, paired with the ethereal and aromatic perfume of the delicate jasmine rice. Add to that, the kiss of lime, lemongrass and fresh cilantro on farm fresh greens and you have yourself a meal to remember.
There is always a regular selection of signature items on the menu, including the satays and the ever famous vegetarian dish, Gado Gado. The specials are always changing and there is always something delicious cooking in Junian's tiny kitchen. The ingredients are always fresh and scratch made. Junian's chili sambal is unbelievably hot and the difference between his version and the jar is like night and day. He also makes his own peanut sauce which captures the essence of the roasted peanuts. Awesome.
Must try dishes:
Beef Rendang - a savoury beef curry simmered with coconut milk until fall apart tender, made from Hoven Farms beef
Black Pepper Lamb - a slow cooked tender and juicy lamb in a black pepper sauce
Gado Gado - Shredded cabbage and fresh vegetables with baked tofu and tempeh, topped with a fresh homemade peanut sauce
*always order extra sambal - Junian will always ask
My only complaint is that the Market is only open from Thursday to Sunday.
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