Birthday lunch @ PappaRich

For this year's Birthday lunch, we've decided to go to a Malay restaurant in Chadstone - PappaRich. 

And we ordered loads of things.

The first to come was the Seafood Laksa. I always love a good Laksa, and had been searching around to find one that I like.  This one at PappaRich, I found that I quite like the soup.  It's creamy, and you can taste the peanut butter and coconut milk, all to a good balance.  It also had a sufficient amount of seafood with it.  If we didn't order so much other things, I think I probably would be content to have this all to myself.

This is curry chicken with coconut rice.  When this came, I was so busy with the Seafood Laksa that I probably didn't pay enough attention to it.  But luckily I still got to have a taste of it.  The curry chicken was very nice and I loved the coconut rice.

Then came the Roti with curry sauces.  I really do love those Roti.  Crisp but soft.  Lovely.  And the three curry sauce were all different but all tasty too.  I personally loved the one in the middle, which I believe was standard common curry sauce.  The reddish one on the right was kind of sweet, but had quite a chilli after taste.  I don't remember much about the yellow one on the left...

This is the infamous Deep fried chicken skin.  Really crispy.  It tasted good, but to tell the truth, it's more like, well, fried crisp.  You can't really taste any chicken or chicken skin.  But it really really was crispy and I did quite like it.

Then came the Chow Kuai Tieu, which we ordered just in case we didn't order enough...  It wasn't bad, but I certainly have had better else where.

Satay Beef, a must where going to Malay restaurant.  Since we ordered curry chicken already, we decided to have beef with the satay.  The satay sauce was really good, you can taste the peanut butter, a little sweet, everything to a very nice balance.  The beef was a little dry, but I guess that's just how things always will be when you have skewer out in restaurants.

And this is the drink I had, sesame milk with sesame ice-cream.  The ice-cream was quite nice, but god this drink was so cold.  Nice, but I guess next time I won't order it.

In general, the food and sauces are all very tasty.  This is definitely a place I would return to.

Straits of Malacca @ Glen

Weekly lunch.  This week, it's Straits of Malacca at The Glen.  A Malay place.  Nice and cheap place.  But you do need to come early on weekends because it is always pack full around lunch time.

This is the Seafood Laksa.  I always wanted to find a good laksa.  I wouldn't say this one is the best, but it's not too bad.  One that I can go back to.  It did came with quite a bit of seafood - mussels, prawns, fried fish, etc.  And the noodle was also a mix of Hokkien thick noodles and the thin rice noodles, which is how I always like my Laksa to be like.  I must say though, the bowl that they used for the Laksa was probably not a very good choice.  It was a bowl that is kind of flat, so the soup did get cold very fast.  Not good for soup type noodle, especially when I wanted to drink all the soup...

This is the Satay skewers, three beef, three chicken.  The beef was a bit dry and tough, but the chicken was quite nice.  The satay sauce, though, was a bit too much to the sweet side, and not enough peanut taste in it.

This is the Malacca Lobak.  Don't ask me what that's suppose to mean.  Anyway, it's three fish balls, a few pieces of deep fried tofu, and some tofu skin roll (腐皮巻).  The fish balls were good, the tofu was okay, but the tofu skin roll (腐皮巻) tasted a bit weird.  Not something I'd have again.  Guess I'll go for either just the fish balls, or just fried tofu.

This is, obviously, spring rolls.  Not much ingredients it seems, but it was fried very good, very crisp.

Overall, not a bad place.  Cheap.  Guess I will go there again when I go to The Glen.