Last Sunday, Utheya dropped in with Nicole around 1.30pm whilst his mother and I were busy thinking of lunch and wanted to invite his mother and me to Ikea in Damansara to look-see the quality of some tables and chairs he will be purchasing for his planned Kopi Tiam in town. We plan to drive up after Joey closes shop at 4.00 pm and gets their kids ready for the trip .
The 1 hour 30 minute drive was smooth and good as there is no AES camera system between the highways in Melaka and Damansara. Michelle and I slept happily throughout most of the trip as it wasn't often that we get to sit at the back these days and enjoy being driven around.
The traffic was quite forgiving on this Sunday evening, and we found ourselves meandering around Ikano Power Center crowd watching, browsing and shopping around for a good place to ''makan'' after touring the many available samples of furniture my son might be interested in at Ikea.
My daughter in law Joey decided to taste their pineapple rice with Tom Yum whereas Utheya went for the Fried Rice and green curry combo. Michelle and I both decided to have just the normal fragrant white rice topped up with baby kailan and non spicy steamed garoupa fish.
The Tom Yum soup was perfect with just the right amount of spiciness and the fresh seafood ingredients were both succulent and tasty that we found ourselves slurping every precious drop away joyfully.
Their baby kailan was crunchy perfect, stir fried with a right balance of fried onions and peanut oil. A simple yet tasty dish that many restaurants these days fail to produce.
These small restaurants tucked away within these massive megamalls often surprise us with their own individual take on how a particular dish should taste and this restaurant was no different in that sense as we found their steamed Garoupa quite sweet with a lilting lime and galangal root taste that was quite refreshing.
The green curry however was a tad under powered and bland, without the usual 'ooomph' associated with Thai Green Curry but what to do, you can't win them all !
The restaurant's ambiance was very modern and almost British looking with a large chandelier taking center space with much pride surrounded with a color scheme that was quite daring but attractive in it's own.
We found many families dining in here with their kids and I suppose that was why it felt quite homely yet was attractively up scale in attitude and pricing.
All in all a robust meal to end a robust and scenic Sunday evening with the family
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