albee’s kitchen is the first malaysian themed restaurant to be featured on this blog which is not in malaysia! this restaurant is located near the train station in campsie which makes it convenient for patrons (the next blog post will feature a much harder to get to by public transport restaurant). albee’s also has a kingsford branch which must be new as i have never seen it in kingsford before.
anyhow we went there for dinner and it was packed. the four of us had to share tables with a mother and son group which made the experience not as great, but this is to be expected of a popular restaurant. where it got really interesting was our waitress walking off another not agreeing with our order (she didn’t come back!) but we gave the same order to another waitress and it all came out okay. there was no special orders or anything, everything we wanted was on the menu so that was odd.
we ordered the nasi lemak, a fragrant dish in which rice is cooked with coconut milk and accompanied by sambal, egg, anchovies and peanuts. it was delicious. i found the sambal to be not too spicy (but perhaps a little bit too spicy for the standard australian taste buds); peanuts and anchovies were crispy and rice was oh so good. a must-have if you go there!
the nasi lemak was accompanied by chicken satay which came with proper peanut gravy. it was good, but not authentic enough; we suspect that it may have been pan fried instead of grilled on charcoal. at $10 for 6 pieces, i would be thinking twice about reordering this.
our next dish is beef rendang. the beef was soft and tender and the sauce was great. i loved it. perhaps not as good as the ones you might get in malaysia, but it comes pretty close.
and finally our last dish was a nam yu pork rib, which are deep fried pork ribs coated in red fermented tofu sauce. i enjoyed this dish, but the others at the table did not; some noted that the meat was a bit fatty. i found that the fattiness combined with the crunch was delicious. my only problem was the bones in the dish, which made it much harder to eat!
we spent about $20 per person and got reasonably good food. i might be trying out mamak before going back to this local eatery.
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