Second chance…

Annie-Q told me that she dropped by here for lunch…

…and she felt the beef rendang was very nice. Well, my missus and I dined here when it first started business around the time when it was just having its soft opening and we were not too thrilled by what they had to offer. But since Annie said it was good, I reckoned that after all this time, they must have improved so my missus and Melissa and I went there that same day for dinner.

I had the Indian butter chicken curry (RM15.00)…

…which I quite enjoyed but Melissa had that in Wellington, New Zealand and she said that it was different. What she had there was kind of sweet but this one was slightly sourish, probably due to the use of yogurt – they do that a lot in Indian cooking. It did not really matter actually, as long as it tasted good.

Melissa tried their tandoori tangari kabab (RM15.00)…

…which was also pretty good but the gravy that came with it was not as nice as the butter chicken curry gravy so I shared mine with her seeing that they did give quite a lot of that…and also a substantial amount of the basmati rice.

My missus had their Indonesian nasi tumpeng (RM13.00)…

…and it certainly was worth it for it came with some otak-otak (fish paste)…

…fried beef…

…and chicken rendang…

I tried a bit of the otak-otak and I thought it was quite good except that they could do with a little less msg in it.

The food here is certainly cheaper than at Payung though not necessarily nicer and the drinks definitely do not come cheap. A glass of iced reverse osmosis drinking water costs RM2.00 and Melissa had their honeydew juice…

…which cost a whooping RM8.00…and it looked kind of diluted, if you ask me.

I liked the drink coaster very much – I thought it was rather pretty…

…and also their toilet signs…

…but the music was driving me up the wall. They had video clips with some loud clubbing music with the likes of LMFAO or Marc Anthony with Pitbull raining over me…and it certainly was a welcome relief when they decided to switch to Adele – live at the Royal Albert Hall…

I think for ambiance and overall dining pleasure, I would still prefer Payung but since the food here isn’t too bad now, this is one place that I would consider dropping by whenever I want something different for a change.