White…

It seems that a few of my friends have dropped by this place and they like the food there and the very nice boss who personally runs the place. One said that he had the chicken bryani (RM6.00) and he ordered some vegetables as the side dish. When paying for the food and drink, he casually mentioned my name and was not charged for the extra. Hmmm…I think I will have to start charging people for using my name, don’t you think? LOL!!!!

Well, I went back there again like I said I would as I wanted to try their white tom yam. I ordered that with mihun (RM6.00) and it came out looking like this…

It was not white at all, not really tom kha kai/gai as that would be really white because it has santan (coconut milk) in it. I tried googling and found in this blog that this clear version of the Thai tom yam is called tom yam nam sai. Whatever the name may be, I must say that it was very very nice.

There were three prawns in it and quite a few pieces of chicken along with all the tomatoes, the sliced Bombay onions, the serai (lemon grass) and the daun limau purut (lime leaves) and lots of chilies. There should be daun ketumbar (coriander leaves) in it too but the guy said that they had run out of it that day.

It tasted really great and I liked it a lot – flavourful, sourish and spicy…and I finished all the soup…

According to the boss, the guy cooking it spent some time in Kelantan and that was where he learnt how to cook this. I enjoyed it a lot though I would think it would be great as a soup to be savoured along with a few other dishes and rice.

With my drink, the bill came up to RM7.40 and of course, the boss rounded it up to RM7.00.

While I was there, I saw these pulut panggang (glutinous rice wrapped in banana leaves and cooked over an open charcoal fire) and was wondering whether they were any good. I found out that they were selling them for 80 sen each with a choice of condensed milk, kaya (coconut jam), curry or nasi lemak sambal to go with it…

I was already too full from the tom yam so I decided to buy them and try them at home…and guess what! The nice boss sold them to me at cost price! I found that they were very nice – there was sufficient panggang fragrance and they were quite  lemak (rich from the santan). I would prefer Kate’s but these would be good enough for one’s morning or afternoon tea break and a lot better than some that I have had around town.

Hmmm…now that I’ve tried the tom yam, I wonder what I can have next when I drop by the place again…