Satay

I ate at different places in Flushings while visiting NY last winter. I have tried traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. And on the night of my trip, my family took me to Malaysian. My family did the ordering since I've not been here before. I can't name all the dishes I took that pictures of, but they all tasted great. We had fried tofu, some satay dishes, fried pig intestines, fried rice, and vegetables. My favorite dish has to be the Han Nan Chicken Rice. The secret of this dish is not about the chicken. It is all about the rice. The rice has to cook in a certain way. It needs to be cooked with chicken fats with chicken broth. Without the correct balance, it will not taste right. Many of the places I visited failed to prepare the rice properly. Overall, we love the dishes. The service is pretty good. You can almost expect excellent service in small family-style restaurants. I can't wait to go back and try that chicken dish again.

I'm a big fan of Malaysian food in general, the flavors, the colors, the presentation and of course the prices. The first thing I think you'll notice when you walk in is the smell of incense not food. There isn't anything particularly exceptional about this place. You can be as nit picky as you want, but nothing should stray you away from the food you are getting. Their roti is on the thinner and flakier side. I have been to a few where it's thicker and softer; at this point it's just personal preference. Their Hainanese rice is awesome, and their satay is also very good. Their Hainanese chicken is also flavorful and so is the string beans with shrimp paste (it does have a small kick!)

1/29/2023. We went there early enough to get some kuih Dakar, some bakeries with kayan in them. We got some taro cake too. Then we decided to stay for a late lunch. Got roti canai, wonton noodle & Malaysian mee. The sad part & unfortunate part for me is that I got a long piece hair in the wonton noodles. My wife reported to them but I didn't objected much. They didn't do anything about it. Then at home when I ate 1 of the kuih dadar I found another hair, almost the same length. Time to buy the Powerball.

Hands down my favorite Malaysian restaurant in NYC. I’ve been eating at this family style restaurant for 15 years and it never lets me down. Pretty much all of their dishes are amazing but let me recommend my favorites: roti canai appetizer, satay chicken/beef appetizer, beef rendang, prawn mee, coconut rice, and the string beans/okra/eggplant stir fry. In all the Malaysian places I’ve eaten at, no one makes a better roti canai than this place because their roti is not like a scallion pancake, it is so much more. It feels homemade and is fluffier, thinner, and stretchier. The curry used for the dip is also amazing. The satay skewers are smokey, full of flavor, and come with this amazing peanut dip. The peanut dip is perfectly balanced in saltiness and sweetness (I usually don’t like my foods sweet so this is saying a lot). The beef rendang is tender and has great flavor. The coconut rice that they make is actually infused with coconut flavor and makes the rice incredibly fragrant. The prawn mee has these amazing chewy egg noodles in a seafood broth that is not overly seafoody and is a little spicy. Lastly, the vegetable stir fry is so unique to Malaysian cuisine and seriously addicting.

Visited during lunch time and the lunch is solid. This is $40 including tips so the price is slightly higher than what’d I pay for in the area. Everything tastes great, the sauce for the roti canai was room temperature which didn’t bother me; but might bother others. Serving size for the hainan chicken is generous, but almost half were mostly bones. All in all, I would be back for the hainan chicken over rice takeout and skip dine in.