At the first time, there was already an obvious shortage of hands. The owner of restaurant had to sweat off his brows personally, busy walking up and down taking customers’ orders, follow-up and stopping by occasionally to make sure the patrons were enjoying the moment. Although there was a minor mistake of sending a wrong dish, it was quickly rectified and we did enjoyed the meal. However on our second visit, the situation got so worse that all the credits we initially thought of this place were discounted.

Despite having increased the numbers of waiters, the service didn’t improve and instead got worse and turned off a few table of patrons as we observed. Firstly, the menu was slow to be presented, it was as if no one bothered to serve until you had to put up your hand, loudly called out “excuse me!”, or show whatever gestures obvious enough to get the staff’s attentions. This was what we’d seen happening to other customers. For us, the menu was shown too many times by different waiters even after we already had our order taken. Just how disorganize the system was.

And then for the dishes to serve, it wasn’t only a painful wait, but also a challenging moment where the patrons needed to be alert and smart so as to avoid mistakenly consuming food or drink that you hadn’t ordered. When asked to confirm the dishes or drinks (sometimes they look really similar, or when you’re trying out new food that you not know), the waiter only responded with yet another clueless look.

To be honest, the food was great, but I’m sure the customers are not only paying for the quality of food, but also expect substantial pleasant treatment. That doesn’t require exclusive attention such of fine-dining, but at least sincere and diligent enough to be enjoyable. I truly hope that improvements will be done as it is a nice place to makan and hang out.

Nasi Briyani Daging (Mutton Briyani Rice). Generous portion, aromatic concoction of various spices without over- heavily use of Ghee.

Nasi Lemak with Beef Rendang.

Lok Mei Tong. Still better at Chinese restaurants.

 Air Batu Campur.

Citta Mall

Jalan PJU 1A/48,

PJU 1A, Ara Damansara,

47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Map courtesy of CITTA Sdn. Bhd

The captain of the food crew recommanded desserts after our Char Koah Teow adventure, and we decided on the famous “Penang Road Famous Chendol” ! This stall is located on the McAlister lane, lorong McAlister and it wasn’t really that easy to spot it. It was a hottttt day and this creamy, icey mouth watering chendol is all we needed to fight the heat! wtf wtf.

After rounding and rounding, finally we found this mobile stall. Excitedly we ordered the famous ICE CHENDOL and trust me it was heavenly.

the famous teochew penang road chendol!

It wasn’t the best of environment for deserts but we Malaysians are in for quality, not the surroundings Remember to spot for this road sign and you know you’re within walking range to the chendol stall.

Lorong McAlister, Penang

The Famous Stall !

Hmm.. I realised something in Penang. Every stall has the “FAMOUS” tag on their sign board. So how can we trust which is really the famous ones? Well, thanks to the half penang-nite, we sorta found our way to the “original” famous ones.

One Leg Kicking

you know u want me wtf

So guys n girls, if you happen to be in Penang and you can’t stand the heat, make you sure you drop by this stall and pamper yourself with this heavenly bowl of chendol!