Friday night indulgence @ Sambal Malaysian Restaurant

Craving for Malaysian food after leaving Malaysia for a while??? I understand that feeling...

No worries, all fellow Malaysian! There are actually quite a few Malaysian restaurant which I think quite authentic HERE IN SYDNEY!!! I think the most famous will be Mamak (City Haymarket & Chatswood)??? Another famous one is Sambal Malaysian Restaurant (well at least every Malaysian at Macquarie know about it). All I know about Sambal is that the boss is from Penang so if you are from Penang and really miss Penang taste, then you should come to Sambal!

It's Friday night!!! So we (Tanya, HD and myself - small group was good) decided to indulge ourselves again with good food (well, not so often right? Just once in a while). We were not really craving for Malaysian food but when we reached there and saw the menu, we were like crazy women (only applied to Tanya and I cause HD is not a Malaysian who is happy to try any food from any country)! We were not craving the Malaysian food but deep inside us did!!! Haha~

Have a look at what we ordered. These are all famous Malaysian local food!

Char Kuey Tiaw - Fried rice noodles.
This is one of the most famous food in Penang, Malaysia.
A friend of mine from Penang told me that the most famous char kuey tiaw stall in Penang uses duck eggs to fry the rice noodles which makes the noodles smell really nice (the typical char kuey tiaw uses chicken eggs instead) but it also costs 4 times the normal char kuey tiaw.

Assam sotong - Assam squid.
Assam tastes hot and sour. Eating it with rice = SUPER NICE!

Inchee Kabin - Deep fried chicken served with a special sauce.
HD (who is not Malaysian) said it's like KFC but healthier than KFC!
Well, he's half correct. It's like KFC when you bite it (cause it's crispy) but don't really taste like KFC. This is 100x yummier than KFC! ^v^

Rendang Lembu - Beef rendang.
Again, I don't eat beef so I can't tell how is it taste like. But I've had chicken rendang before so I definitely know how rendang taste like. If you are not Malaysian, Singaporean or Indonesian, you might get mix up between rendang and curry. Well, they are not actually the same. Both rendang and curry are spicy but they taste totally different because of the spices used. Another thing that distinguished curry from rendang is curry has lotsa sauce (erm, not sure if sauce is the best word...anyway, I meant lotsa water I guess =.=")

Belacan eggplant.
It's a hot dish again.

After all the savoury... Let's have some sweet for dessert!
Ais kacang - shaved ice, one of the most popular dessert in Malaysia!
It's a cold dessert with shaved ice, Rose syrup (sirap Ros - this is what we called in Malaysia), coconut sugar syrup (Gula Melaka) and carnation milk on top of the ice.
And don't think it's just ice!
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The 'treasure' are all at the bottom! There are red bean, grass jelly and atap chi (I don't know what it called in English but it's some kind of sea coconut).
These are just some of the things we have in Ais kacang. There are all kinds of Ais kacang in Malaysia. I love the one with ice-cream and peanut on top of the shaved ice the most ^^

Not too expensive restaurant (if you don't compare to the Malaysia price cause if I compare, honestly, I could have seafood banquet already!). The restaurant also opens for lunch with Malaysian hawker centre food like asam laksa, char kuey tiaw, kuih muih etc! Anyway, Sambal is definitely a good choice if you really miss Malaysian food or if you like to try new things!