My girl could not come home over the weekend as there was some parent-teacher association event going on in her school in the jungle for two days so we had to drive all the way on Sunday to send her her rations for the week, the remaining one for the year as the year-end holidays will start right after Friday this week.
She enjoyed the sambal terung and also the sambal tofu so very much that she asked if we could buy those for her again and of course, we headed there right away, Friday, in the hope of tapao-ing for her what she wanted but unfortunately, it was not on their menu that day. However, the nice boss, Guna, asked us to come back the next day and he gave specific instructions to the cook to cook those two dishes.
Well, since we were there, we thought we might as well have lunch and of course, we were lured by the sight of the drool-worthy sambal petai udang (stink beans with prawns)…
It was so good that I simply had to buy some home for our dinner!
Being my no-meat Friday, I had their fried fish…
…and they had this very nice sambal belacan (dried prawn paste)…
…to go with it and on top of those, I also had their sambal egg…
My missus had the petai and the fish too but instead of the egg, she had paku (wild jungle fern).
This time, I quickly went to pay at the counter to the handsome and friendly Indian guy there before Guna could stop me and the total came up to RM19.00, inclusive of drinks. I think what my missus had was RM7.50 and mine was RM8.50, not really cheap but petai is so expensive these days and what more to say, there were prawns in the dish and my missus said that I helped myself to a whole lot of it, definitely more than just one regular serving.
Yes, we went back the following day and my missus had their nasi campur (mixed rice) again – the sambal terung and the fried cangkuk manis and two or three pieces of their tandoori chicken, just that theirs was deep fried not cooked in the traditional stone oven nor the cauldron that I’ve seen people using at some Indian eateries in the peninsula. The total was only RM5.00, a whole lot cheaper than when we had the petai and prawns and the fish the day before.
I decided to try their other varieties of the thosai – they have a new Indian guy…
…making that and the roti canai and murtabak and yes, he’s very nice and friendly too.
I loved the ghee thosai (RM3.00)…
…that had the added fragrance of the ghee whereas the onion thosai (RM3.00)…
…was like regular thosai with bits of chopped Bombay onions in it…
I enjoyed both of them especially with the dips that they gave me – the chutney, the nasi lemak sambal and the dhal dip…
Yes, we got what we wanted for my girl – the sambal terung…
…and the sambal tofu…
…and of course, she was delighted to get the good news that we would be coming the following day with those in hand.
SRI PELITA CAFE (2.293579, 111.820700) is located along Lorong Kampung Datu 11, off Jalan Kampung Datu, the first shop in the block to the right of Paramount Hotel.
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