Run by Eden Catering, this is the poshest place some of us can go to in these difficult times. The restaurant is located in the clubhouse, with waiters in their black and white attire and expansive air- conditioned dining area. The best part is that there is a student’s lunch special, which cost just below RM 10. The bad part is it is always char key tiaw every time we ask. Our best bet is their lunch set menu which rotates on a weekly basis on a 7 week cycle. You will also get an iced lemon tea with a dessert with the set ranging from RM 10- RM 15.
This week, after much debating (“Where do you want to go?” “ I don’t know, you decide lah” “ I don’t mind” “ I don’t mind either” “Urghhhh…”) N and S decided to try the nasi bukhara lunch set at Aroma, PAUM.
S has been eyeing the set for months but was never lucky enough to come when it was the weekly special. So, this time, she keyed in the lunch menu sets into her smartphone. Smart gal.
The food itself tastes alright. You have a crispy poppadom on top of your rice. The rice, though not seasoned with spices enough was adequate to satisfy our hunger. The tandoori chicken was not too overwhelmingly seasoned, though S certainly hoped for while the dhal with potatoes and vegetables completed our food group. Health conscious N gave his a 6- 7/10 as he expected fresh vegetables and wilted vegetables in a dhal curry did not count as a vegetable serving for him. S scored the food higher with 8/10 because she especially liked the tandoori chicken. Not the best tandoori chicken she has ever had, but certainly the best one with the easiest access to around her workplace.
Next came the dessert. It was a bubur cha cha with tender sweet banana. Or is it a pengat pisang mixed with pulut cha cha? Either way, the chewy cha cha and sago with sweet banana gave us the kick needed to continue our work after a draining morning (oh, we were just being melodramatic by the way). The sweet creamy coconut milk certainly helped this dessert’s case. FYI, N hates anything milky or dairy affiliated. But since coconut is not dairy, we repeat NOT DAIRY, N liked his dessert just fine.
Overall, we would recommend anyone within the vicinity of this place to come here for the lunch menu. We each forked out RM 13.40 for our lunch and hey, that is not too bad. Just don’t order their pies. La Bonito once ordered one and it took them like a million light years to serve her with it because they said it was made from scratch. Maybe because they gave us the impression that it was going to be worth the wait or something, but the collective disappointment on behalf of La Bonito when the pie arrived spoke volumes. We thought they looked eerily similar to the ones you see in Secret Recipe- franchise- like shops.
2 things we have learned from this review:
1. We tend to post less pictures when we are hungry, most probably because we only remembered our task half way through wolfing down our meal
2. Coconut milk is not dairy
Okay, until the next review,
Honest Foodies Review Team
Wonderful review as always
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