Arabian Night...

Again, a belated post.

I was in KL again last week for the International Super Seven Championship held in Putrajaya.  After the tournament weekend, SmallKucing invited me to join her and Cleffairy for dinner on 31/05/2011 in Wadi Al-Nile Restaurant at Platinum Walk, Setapak.  I'm having Arab food, for the first time.  

Well, who else but my trusted driver to bring me there?  Anyway, Badman seemed haven't updated his radar so we actually stuck in traffic jams somewhere in between, took the long route towards Setapak, got a 'little' lost (we missed the junction and went further up somewhere) and was late to our 8pm dinner date.  

Here's what we had: (Photo credit to SmallKucing)

Mint Tea (RM6 per small pot).  

I wonder if the hot water can be refilled like some restaurant do.

This is 'hummus' (RM6), a mixture of chick pea with tahina sauce.  Love the texture of it.  

Mulawah bread (RM4).  See SmallKucing up there?  I bet he also blur looking at the size! =p

Kabsah Chicken (Quarter size) - RM10.  Badman picked this too.  

SmallKucing's Mamarazi choose the Grill Chicken (Half) - RM15.  

Check out that portion!!!!

  

Well, luckily she warned me about the portion so I pick Lamb Kabsah (Quarter) for RM15.

Still, it came with generous heap of rice and nice chucks of lamb.  Love this one very much, because the lamb is well marinated, tender and it didn't smell.  

All the rice dish came with this soup and chilli.  The broth of the soup tasted like been made with tomato puree mix with some other spices in it; it's somewhat sourish but goes well with the rice.  The chili is nice too.

  

...and washed it all down with mango-flavored fizzy drink, called Fayrouz.  

Can't remember the price.  Should be around RM4-RM5.  It has other flavors like raspberry, pineapple and apple.

I was craving for something sweet...too many unfamiliar names on the menu, so just pick one. 

This sweet dish is called 'Banana Masood' (RM8) - fried bread mix with cream, topped with honey and banana.  Don't be deceived by the look of it.  This portion alone need 4-5 of us to share!  =p  

It's comforting, and I think it almost reminded me of having oats for breakfast, maybe can make this for breakfast too?  Or for baby food?  

Generous portions of food at affordable price, nice surroundings, quality food (Cleffairy told us once she saw the restaurant owner rejected a whole bunch of bananas sent to his restaurant, said the goods he requested is not fresh.  This shows that the boss really take the quality of his food seriously!)..you hardly can find it anywhere nowadays.  Yes, I already marked this place in my 'must go to eat' place.  ^_^V

Anyway, before we left, Mamarazi gave me a bag of goodies (forgot to take photo, almost wipe everything clean then I remembered...sigh) - some rice dumplings with chicken fillings that she made by herself; pickled mangoes and keropok....Thank you for the dinner ya.  It's nice to meet you and Cleffairy.  Hope to see you again soon!  ^_^V