First of all I just want to say 20,000 hits and counting for
18 months of blogging is not too shabby.
Thank you to all of my readers for taking some time out of your busy
schedules to read my food blog. Well now
that I am done London and Barcelona it’s time to get back to some local
food. When we got back, we decided to
head out and try some real authentic curry.
We decided to give the Gourmet Malaysia HALAL Family restaurant a
try. They specialized in a lot of
authentic curry dishes from Malaysia and Singapore. It was a good thing we got reservations to
the place as it was lined up all the way outside the door on a Saturday
evening.
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| Roti Cannai |
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| Special Gourmet Malaysia Platter |
First to arrive was the Curry Chicken and the Roti Cannai,
which was basically Roti with Curry Chicken.
Since there were five of us, one serving of Curry Chicken was not going
to do the trick so we figured we get the Roti Cannai to help get us a few extra
pieces of chicken. The curry sauce was
very good. It was not overly spicy but
just enough to get your tongue curled up as you taste it. The chicken was soft and absorbed most of the
curry sauce. The standout however was
the roti. I’ve tasted quite a bit of
roti during my time but this was one of the best rotis ever. The bread was
extra fluff however it was strong enough to hold all the curry juices. It was freshly baked and the aroma of it was
amazing. We actually ordered an extra couple of roti orders because it was just
that good and it was amazing to use to soak up all the curry.
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| Penang Char Kwei Teow |
The Penang Char Kwei Teow arrived soon afterwards and it was
basically in my mind a “gong chow ngau hor” or “Chinese Beef Chow Fun” except
the different between the two was that in their dish they would use seafood
including shrimp to use as an ingredient as opposed to using beef. The taste of the noodles was exactly the same
as a beef chow fun. There was no difference
at all in my mind. If you were a huge
fan of the Chinese “gong chow ngau hor” then give this one a try as well. You might like the seafood edition of
it.
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| Nonya King Prawns |
The Assam Fish head came next. The curry had a bit of sweet taste to it so I
suspect that they might have used a bit of mango in their curry sauce for this
dish. The fish head itself was good and in
this instance, they went with a salmon fish head. Although the entire dish was nicely made, I
wasn’t too sure if it was well worth the overall price. When you think about it, it’s the head of a
fish so there really wasn’t a whole lot of meat to it. However I do know some
people could just eat fish heads all day so it really depends on what your
likes and dislikes are. For me, for the
small amount of meat available and that there was only one head served I
thought the price of this dish might have been slightly overvalued.
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| Tong Choi Vegetables |
The Nonya King Prawns arrived next and this dish was
delicious. The prawns were cooked in a
sour and spicy type of. The shells were
still on the shrimp but they were nicely fried.
The sauce itself was a little thick and gooey but the spiciness of it
and the taste of it made you wanting for more.
It was actually quite spicy. It doesn’t hit you right away but it’s one
of those delayed spiciness. The prawns
themselves were quite fresh and tender.
My suggestion is to lick the sauce off the prawns, peel away the shell
and then re-dip the shrimp into the sauce. You certainly won’t be disappointed
with this dish at all.
Last but not least was the Special Malaysian Gourmet platter. It had some skewers with beef on it, some
spring rolls, mango and pepper slices, and battered shrimp. There were about 3-4 pieces to each one and
although each one tasted up to standards, it was to me another dish that I
thought was slight overvalued. For the
amount of food one is getting and for the price one was paying ($19.99 for this
platter), I thought there wasn’t enough substance in it to warrant the price. It was not entirely filling and to me it was
more of a sampler, albeit an expensive sampler.
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| Assam Fish Head |
Despite having a couple of dishes being slightly more overvalued
than what I thought they were worth, the restaurant still boasted some
exceptional cuisine. Most dishes were
under ten dollars with the platter being more.
All the dishes however tasted great so I can’t complain there. Parking was a little bit of a pain as one
might have to park at a supermarket in the back in order to get to the space. Service was fairly decent although some of
the food took a while to arrive. This
could have been due to the large number of people there although our first
dishes really didn’t arrive until 30 minutes into service time and overall time
was like two hours. What I would suggest
is trying going there for lunch where it might be less busy and try out one of
their lunch courses. It’s more or less
the same stuff and it will give you a preview of what could be a much bigger
selection in the dinner selection.
Overall I give it a 4.25 out of 5.
Gourmet Malaysian Restaurant
4466 Sheppard East E101
Scarborough Ontario
647-764-1188
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