Why are there no tables?

Questions about the lack of tables never stopped.

Last Sunday, our masjid (mosque) held it's Hari Raya 'open house'. Since the kids and I haven't had the opportunity to go to many open houses this year it was a nice little outing for them.

Unsure how to balance.

The masjid is just across our main road, so my mom and I decided to walk there. There were many people there and a few stalls (bazaar-like) prepared by the organizing committee. There was sate, nasi impit and kuah kacang, mee and meehoon sup, and lontong. The food was actually quite good. 

Chair = table too

Eating on plastic chairs with no tables was quite an experience while trying to juggle 3 small kids with different appetites but somehow my mom and I managed it. Of course their Raya clothes became casualties and we were probably the only people who managed to get the kuah kacang all over one of the chairs. 

Juggling

It was hot and a bit tiring but everyone left happy and full.

Comot!

Smashin' Ayam Penyet at Wangsa Walk

Waiting for chicken!

It's true! I must be one of the very few people who still has not tasted Ayam Penyet (translated on the menu as smashed chicken..hmm). It's just that I had a bad experience with Indonesian food once so I was less than enthusiastic to try again. However, my curiosity got the better of me, so we decided to stop off for lunch at Ayam Penyet @ Wangsa Walk.

Look here!

We ordered 2 sets of Ayam Penyet, Sup ekor and Ikan Assam Pedas.

Love the chicken..but not the other stuff

First of all the ayam is not "penyet" at all. It's just fried chicken. I loved the flavour. A little hint of spice but not overpowering and fried just right. Wish we had ordered more. The accompanying sambal was very hot and a bit sour but complimented the chicken very well.

Water with meat

Initially we had ordered the sup ekor and ikan assam pedas because we noted that the ayam penyet set did not come with any gravy. Eating dry rice isn't something that we enjoy so that was why we ordered the extras. BAD BAD BAD choice. The sup ekor was just a watery tasteless soup with little portions and the fish was a bland but overpoweringly hot gravy with very tough and totally unfresh peice of 'togkol' fish (or was it 'tenggiri' it so tough I couldn't even tell the difference).

The drinks look nice.. pity they weren't

Since the food was hot, you would think that the drinks would be refreshing and soothing to our palates. Unfortunately, they were not. My watermelon snow juice tasted strangely of honeydew essence and was so diabetic inducingly sweet that despite my tongue being on fire I could not force in more than 2 sips. I drank an astonishingly expensive (RM 0.70) glass of sky juice instead. The girls' drinks were not really any better with the milo ais being the only decent one. 

All in all, the Ayam Penyet itself was good but everything else was not. Next time, I'm just going to order the chicken and drink plain water.

Accidentally Cheap Potato at Kenny Rogers

Another book reader- yeay!

Know how each place has it's own signature dish? Kenny Rogers is probably most famous for it's roasted chicken. As usual most of us decided to play it safe by ordering our normal quarter meal with side dishes. But Maz decided to be a little adventurous.

We were't confident enough to try the new Balinese Chicken

She chose a Baked Potato meal (Beef Bolognase) with came with the standard 3 side dishes + 1 muffin option. For some reason she decided to load her plate with carbohydrates that day (rice, pasta and potato). Unfortunately, the combination of a baked potato with what is basically a spaghetti sauce was not really a mouth-watering one. The topping was average and overall the meal did not really work.

Carbohydrate overload!

The Baked potato meal cost RM 15.90 (same as the Quarter meal). Why "cheap"? Because although there were four of us, we only paid for 2 meals. The cashier mistakenly rang up the bill (we noticed 2 days later when splitting the reciept). An honest mistake. Still torn whether to go back and pay? Let's take a vote. What do you think?

Hmmm....

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