Petaling Street, Sydney

After my trip to Malaysia, I would love to find a restaurant which has similar hawker food. Miss Laughter highly recommends Petaling Street. As the name suggested, I would expect some authentic Malaysian hawker food. Since it was our late supper, we only tried some dishes. The food didn't disappoint. Miss Laughter and I already arranged another date to go back for a proper meal! :)

Mee Goreng Mamak

Roti

Petaling Street

760 George Street

Sydney NSW

(02) 9280 1006

Sinma Laksa House, Kingsford

Finally I am eating in an Asian restaurant to celebrate Chinese New Year for this year. This is our favourite Singaporean/Malaysian restaurant, especially their Singaporean chili crab... yum yum! Since it is Chinese New Year, the restaurant has some banquets specifically for Chinese New Year. After checking up the dishes in the banquet menu, except for the yusheng which we are craving for, there are some other dishes which we are craving for is not included. So we go for a la carte. :)

Yusheng or Lo Hei

Yusheng or lo hei which is a traditional Chinese New Year dish. This is because of its name homophone to abundance, prosperity and vigor. It is a raw fish salad which consists of raw fish, salmon and king fish, shredded vegetables and various sauces. This is also a fun and messy dish. Everyone at the table will stand up and toss the shredded fishes, vegetables and sauce together. When we are tossing, we also say all the well wishes for the coming year. The higher we toss the better the year will come. :)

Yusheng or Lo Hei (after our tossing... what a mess!!)

Here comes our favourite Singaporean chili crab. This dish we normally will lick the plate before we give the dish back. They have mantou to dip the sauce, which is the best part of it. Of course, we have licked this plate as well!! :p 

Singaporean Chili Crab

As we have eight of us, we have ordered another crab. We were thinking to get the salty egg crab. Unfortunately, they do not have this one on the day. We then order the butter crab. Their butter crab is dried and it is not saucy. It similar to deep fried but without the oiliness to it. This is very tasty not a bad choice at all. Both crabs are fantastic for day. We have been using our hands and getting really messy for them!

Butter Crab

After these two crabs, we are getting full. But no no, our stomach can fit anything since it is Chinese New Year... or just an excuse? :p The butter prawn today is not as good as it used to be. The prawns are smaller in size. One good thing is their taste still good and we cant complain much about it. 

Butter Prawn

Another fruit and vegetable salad dish which we ordered is Penang rojak. The sauce is very thick and toffee like. It is not too sweet and balance out to the sourly taste of the granny smith apple which they used. It seems like the fried tofu is missing from our dish. 

Penang Rojak

One good thing of the Hainanese chicken is boneless which is good for the lazy people, like me! The chicken is very smooth and tender.

Hainanese Chicken

Lastly we have ordered a vegetable dish sambal kangkong. This is the spiciest dish out of all for the day. The sambal is very tasty and it goes well with our nasi goreng. 

Sambal Kangkong

Nasi Goreng

Wishing you all Kung Hei Fat Choi and a prosperous year of Rabbit!

Sinma Laksa House

391 Anzac Parade

Kingsford NSW 2032

(02) 9313 7663

Roti Bom at Mamak

One late night, I was hungry and my friend called and asked "Let's go to Mamak for supper!". Obviously, I wouldn't say no to such an offer. So I quickly got myself ready and went to the restaurant.

As you may read my previous blog, I was indecisive as to which sweet roti should I get. This time I will pick the other one, Roti Bom! I was told that it needs to wait for at least 20 minutes. I was so eager to taste this roti, so of course I said, "It's fine!".

We chatted for awhile and the roti bom came!

Roti Bom

This is the sweet version of roti canai. The roti is like spreaded with syrup to make it sticky and chewy. One bad thing about this is it will stuck to your teeth! :O After trying most of their sweet roti, I prefer roti kaya out of them. :)

Mamak15 Goulburn Street, Sydney NSW

Flying Dough at Mamak

This one is on my friend's "To Eat - city" list. We were thinking, now it's around 8:30pm, the quene outside has gone already? We were at the intersection waiting to cross the road and saw the quene was there but isnt lining up to the next shop. :) Should we wait or not? When we were at the front of the shop, it's not that bad. Majority of the people that we saw earlier were standing there to watch the chef flying the dough. The shop front has a clear glass window allowing the passer-by to see the chef making the roti.

Flying Dough

After around 20-30mins of the wait, we were seated. As I have been to this place a few times, my friend has choosen the dishes for the night. We ordered the drinks first, as both of us were really thristy by that time. We ordered cham and teh 'O' ais limau.

The cham is half tea and half coffee drink. My friend said it is not as sweet as the teh tarik. The teh 'o' ais limau is ice tea with a splash of lime. This is one of my favourite drink, with a hint of lime taste. :)

Cham & Teh 'O' ais limau

The satay sauces is nutty and crunchy. It's not like the usual satay sauce that is from other places. We only ordered half a dozen which I feel it's not quite enough. But then I wanted to try more variety of the food, need to hold off my hunger for satay and its sauce! We used up the sauce at the end. ;)

Chicken Satay

The roti telur bawang is made with egg and onions. It came with 2 curry dips which one of them is a little spicier than the other. Both of the sauces match well with the roti. If you prefer more chilli, they also gave you spicy sambal sauce as well.

Roti Telur Bawang

We have choosen lamb murtabak which the roti is filled with spicy lamb, cabbage, eggs and onions. The lamb version is not as tasty as the chicken which I have tried before.

Lamb Murtabak

How can we miss out the dessert after all these? hehehehe... so we asked the waiter for the menu. Since we have already tried the roti tisu, we would like to try something different this time. After narrow down to two choices, roti kaya and roti bom. We ended up ordered the roti kaya. Kaya is a traditional spread made from pandan and coconut.

Roti Kaya

We were so full by the time we finished the last dish. We walked out of the door with a smile on our face, another tick to the "To Eat" list. :)

Mamak

15 Goulburn Street, Sydney NSW

Phone: (02) 9211 1166

Opening hours: Open 7 days, Lunch 11:30am to 2:30pm, Dinner 5:30pm to 9:30pm, Supper: Open till 2am Friday and Saturday