Cuisine: Malaysian, Nasi Lemak
Price: ~ RM 10 (for lunch + drink)
Service: 3.0 (refer to glossary)
During lunch times, on suitable days (suitable = no rain.. no sign of rain in the next hour.. no one’s too lazy to walk), the whole group of us walk 3/4s of the Uptown square to get the Village Park for the oh-so-yummy nasi lemak.
The place is always completely packed. Today, 13 of us crammed ourselves onto a table meant for 8 (5 rather large guys mind you) all for the sake of this oh-so-yummy nasi lemak.
It was really crammed. You know how when you pretend to be a chicken in school plays or charades, you squish your arms (with your elbows bended) close to your body. That’s how we ate our lunch today.
The most famous here is their nasi lemak + ayam goreng (fried chicken). I’ve had it twice:
- the first time I thought the chicken wasn’t very flavourful
- the second time I thought it was nicer
But the one thing consistently yummy, is the sambal. It’s the sweeter kind of sambal. And although it’s not as spicy as I’d like it.. it’s good. We always ask for more cos they never give enough.
I personally really like their lime juice. The limau ice is exceptionally refreshing – just the right degree of sour + sweet + cold balance.
My colleagues really like the kedondong – it looks really green.
They have other Malaysian favourites too, like the mee rebus, fried kuey tiao. I had fish ball noodles today. The soup was average but the fish balls were quite err… “bouncy” ? Hope it’s not boric acid.
Conclusion:
I don’t think the nasi lemak is as exceptional as my colleagues (and everyone else) make it out to be. It’s on the pricier side for a working lunch (RM6.50 for a plate of nasi lemak). I probably won’t choose to come here unless my colleagues want to or if I wanted to let someone else try the oh-so-yummy nasi lemak. I might make a trip specially for the limau ais though.. :p
But my taste is known to be different.. so maybe take my conclusion with a pinch of salt.
Other reviews: WaiSikKai, JulesEatingGuide, DamansaraLunchClub (pix only)
Address: 5, Jalan SS 21/37, Damansara Utama, 47400 PJ [google map]
Phone: +603 7710 7860
Opening hours: (I don’t know.. but I overheard the lady say they open in the mornings too..)
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ck // November 4, 2009 at 9:30 pm |
Was at Village Park today afternoon around 1.30pm, a very bad experience and end up with order nothing and left.
My friends like to go there, and I was there few times already, the nasi lemak is just normal.
Today again, I arrived earlier than my friends, sit a table far away from the counter(alongs the corridor), the table was messy, so I stand and wait, then a waiter come and clean it, after cleaned, he told me that he go and bring over the menu to me.
Due to I was received a call from customer few minutes ago, ask me to check an urgent mail sent by her, so I open up my LAPTOP with my Celcom Broadband to download that mail. During the time I see the waiter walk towards me with the menu, but suddenly he turn back into the shops…I feel weird, but thought that maybe he forgot something else, so I continue downloading my mail. After I done download my mail, I start realize that I sitting there around 10mins, menu still not coming.
I also notice that there’s an empty table just in front of the main entrance, so I decided to shut down my laptop and walk over to the table. Because it takes time to shut down the laptop, so I carrying it on my hand and walk towards, see an Old Man carrying a cleaning cloth towards the table and want to clean it for me, but suddenly he stared at my laptop, show me two hands and bad face, then walk away from the table and stand beside. I suddenly ‘HANG’ for few seconds, and remembered that my friend told me this place not allow to use LAPTOP. So I keep my laptop and stand up, then that uncle suddenly sit at my place and seems like want to chase me out from the place. That uncle(heard that is the owner) really too rude, he may have his own rules, but I didn’t use his electricity or wifi, and never disturb his do business because I only use for few minutes. He might be right for generating himself a good business turnover but definitely very wrong due to his bad very attitued. I will defintely ban this place for my life time.
This shop information should be removed from all the Malaysia internet sites or blogs because it may misleading some tourist come to the place, and what if they treat the tourist who bring good income to Malaysia market ? This will give a very bad impression to the outsider that Malaysian is all like that.