When I was in KL, I noticed that there were a lot of foreign workers around – Bangladeshis and a lot from Myamar including those in the housekeeping department in the hotel where I was staying. Well, it so happened that at one of the coffee shops along Jalan Alor, I stumbled upon this stall in the back portion…and I was attracted by the unfamiliar writing on the sign…
At first, I thought it was Thai but when I went to ask, it turned out to be Myamarese. I already had lunch that day, so I decided to go back there the following day to try their native cuisine.
The fish was VERY nice, sour enough and not spicy – something like our assam fish…
…and what I thought was beef rendang was not. It tasted something like the nyonya’s ayam ponteh and I reckoned it would have been nice had it not been a bit too cold for my liking.
The vegetable dish was a disappointment…
…and I did not like the complimentary soup nor the ulam either. The dip looked something like cincaluk but I guess it required an acquired taste that I did not have…
All those dishes with rice came up to only RM10.00 – cheaper than the horrible bowl of mee sua that I had at a coffee shop in the vicinity.
I went back there again a couple of days later with my missus to let her try the exotic food from our neighbouring country. We had fish again…
…and though this time it was cooked differently, it was also very nice. I liked the pork dish too…
…and the brinjal/ladies fingers…
…cooked with prawns tasted something like our masak lemak. Together with the rice for two persons, it cost only RM11.00.
It seemed that the stall catered mostly to their own people as I noticed that most of the people eating there spoke a Thai-like kind of language. All in all, I thought it was affordable and inexpensive and a welcome change from the stuff that we normally have every day.
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the price is really cheap considered it is in KL…. and the food looks great too…..
Yes…it certainly is. And the food is nice too…but cold. Still, I enjoyed it…
The food looks really great and for that price it’s a steal…! The fish came in such big portions too considering the price… Should really drop by one of these days to try it out!
I must say that it is not easy to find though as it is in the back portion. You will not be able to see it from the outside…and will have to go in and look for it among the stalls at the back. It is nice…and a welcome change, otherwise I would not have gone there twice…
I dont like to go Jalan Alor now.. when i last went, most of the stalls were managed by the foreigners, no more authentic taste like last time.. those employers just leave their stalls to them while they just collect money, i guess…
So far when I ate there, the people manning the stalls were all Chinese…but that did not mean that the food was good. I did notice especially in Damansara Uptown – they were all from Myamar…but the dishes that they cooked were pretty good. It’s the same here – we’re getting to see more and more Indons doing all the work at the kampua noodles stalls…and in Sabah, they’re mostly Filipinos. None from Myamar or BanglaDesh here…
yeah the vege dish looks like a slump of… hmm.. whatever lah.. =P
Hah!!! I guess you’re a typical city boy of Chinese descent. If you look at some of the authentic ethnic dishes here, you may get to see vegetables like that and some may be really very nice. Should be more open-minded and give it a try – like the pansuh (meat cooked in bamboo) which may not look very colourful and attarctive but tastes really very good. I don’t think you’d like kasam though – that’s fermented meat! Even I have not acquired the taste for that…and you’ll probably run a mile away! LOL!!!
The brinjal look nice!
Which one? The last one’s very nice…something like our masak lemak. I didn’t quite care for the other one – not really a fan of brinjals anyway.
One thing is very apparent here in Penang, the ever smart chinese businessman, have now hired the foreign workers to man their hawkers stalls, and now they can have so call hawkers chain stalls already… sometimes the boss dont even have to be there…
Ya…trust the Chinese to do that, and they get richer and richer and mostly, not declared… Oops! Shhhhhh!!!! LOL!!!
Yeah…it looks strikingly similar to our ayam ponteh albeit the colour is a little bit lighter? :p
Ya…not enough tau cheo/fermented beans. With more of that, it would be quite the same…
Not bad
Yes…not bad at all and the best part – relatively cheap some more!
looks yumy…dont mind to try…hehe
Go for the fish! It’s really nice… The meat would have been nice too if it wasn’t so cold…
Wahhh… those food are quite cheap, considering the portion!
They served the same portions, it seems – whether I went alone or with my missus. Just one extra ringgit for the one extra plate of rice. Cheap and nice…
LOL… the extra plate of rice must be for you lah, Cikgu?
No leh? One for me…and one for my missus plus the food RM11.00. The previous visit, only one for me plus the dishes – RM10. Oh! I forgot…you’re the president of your club! LMAO!!!
What were you doing so deep into Jalan Alor? hehe
Eating… Hehehehehehe!!!!
That’s cheap. I can’t tell what vege dish was that. You call it vegetables??! It looked like some mashed up brinjal.
Yup…brinjal. Not so nice…but the watery one – brinjal plus ladies fingers – that one’s quite good! LOL!!!
Oh nice close up pictures can even see the layer of oil over the dishes. Long time have not been to Jalan Alor. Those days when my office is nearby would often go for the claypot seafood noodles and its always very packed during lunch time. Wonder the shop is still around most likely made ton$ of money and shifted to some bigger shop lot. tQ
Ya…one thing I noticed, the food was slightly on the oily side – something like Malay cooking, also rather oily. Haven’t tried any claypot stuff at Jalan Alor – maybe next trip…