House of Sundanese Food, Suria KLCC

Happy Birthday Izam!!!! Yesterday was Izam's Birthday. She chose the House of Sundanese Food at KLCC for her birthday treat. We all trooped over to that place for a big big meal as follows. It was lovely as expected. For those not familiar with this place, I have some pictures for future reference, he!he!he!

Once you sit down, they will serve this Malinja Crackers and a tiny mortar of belacan. This combination is just simply superb, especially at lunch time, way past your lunch time.

We ordered this soup, thinking that we wanted something gravyish to have with our rice, knowing that we will be ordering dry dishes. So this soup here is called Sayur Asam (RM5.50 per bowl). It has quite a tangy taste. It is supposed to be an appetizer. I found that it goes well if you just sip it like a soup, doesn't work too well especially like me, I chose the Nasi Kuning (sorry forgot to take a picture of this Yellow Rice) instead of Plain White Rice.

This is Cumi Cumi Bakar (RM7.50 per pc), Yes, so it's basically one piece of this Squid basted with sweet sauce and slowly grilled over charcoal per person. Really nice, one piece person may sound insufficient however, if you order more than one dish, it's quite sufficient. That coming from me, you gotta believe.

We had 2 dishes that were the Piece de resistance, because they are really good. Trust me. The first one is this Sedap Ikan Seabass Bakar - Cooked Sundanese Style, apparently the basting process itself is an art. It prevents drying out leaving a juicy succulent fish a special sweet sauce. Really it does. Oh, and it costs RM59.90 per dish. A ha! my friend. No joke.

This is the other Piece de Resistance that we seldom take cause you don't really get that much flesh, nevertheless, it's worth trying. It's aptly called Ikan Nila Goreng, The Sundanese "Dancing Fish" that tastes every bit as wonderful as it looks. The fish is deep fried to make the skin crispy and the flesh succulently juicy. The price is a juicy RM43.90 per plate.

Me and Izam, the Birthday Girl.

This one here is the Sambal Terong RM13.00. A simple fried eggplant dish that is topped with a thick mildly spice sauce.

Izam, Zailan (who has under the table, a newly purchase Blackberry, hate him!) and Norlina (our boss).

Azleen and Zakiah.

From Left to Right: Norlina, Zila, Hafiz, Linda and Maisura.

For dessert, I had this Es Cendol. Yum! This is RM4.50 each.

Maisura had this Es Campur costing RM6.00 per bowl.

And the majority who were Mango lovers, had this Mango Lolo. Yes, it is a good as it looks and only RM4.50 each.

Cannot resist another angle.

There were other dishes ordered that are featured here. We also order Kerodok which is actually our version of Gado-Gado, Gado-Gado Ayam, which is as the name explains, Gado-Gado with chicken and not with peanut sauce, but with a much lighter dressing. Hafiz also ordered Ayam Bumbu Rujak because he doesn't eat fish. This is chicken in a smooth rich sauce of blended spices and chillies, quite good. Oh, finally the Kangkung Cha, which is Kangkung Vege cooked in Tau Cheo(Soya Bean paste). Here's the very long bill. Srutinising it, I found that the 1st line, was Emping, this was the Malinja crackers that was served once you are seated, well didn't know they charge them!!! I have always thought they were free.