NKT Sotong King

 Yesterday, Thu 1.apr.21, we went for our weekly grocery shopping at the Midvalley Mall from about 10.30 am to 1.30 pm. We bought takeaway lunch from Nasi Kukus Tonggek kiosk in Aeon Food Court for my friend.

My friend took this photo for me when eating the big squid at 2.40 pm. The deep fried squid rice that costs MYR 18.90 nett consists of rice, cucumbers, deep fried squid, sambal and curry gravy. 

I also bought a side order of deep fried tempe in salted egg yolk gravy snack at MYR 7.90 nett for my friend. The salted egg yolk gravy tastes a bit sweet and not strong on the salted egg yolk, barely detectable. The tempe is very firm and tastes like brown dao ban jiang. The usual dao ban jiang is made from fermented broad beans, chili peppers, soybeans, salt and flour.

5.07 pm - both of us shared this big squid rice for our dinner. Since we have given our spicy sambal to my friend, we poured all the sweetish curry gravy over the squid to cover the deep fried oil taste. The squid can be easily chewed because my friend suspects that it has been soaked in baking soda aka bicarbonate of soda to tenderize it.

Total price for two big squid rice and one snack is MYR 45.70 nett.

This is the lunch queue at the NKT kiosk at Aeon Food Court, Midvalley Mall to collect the already paid dine-in orders at 1.09 pm. No queue at the cashier counter at the right of this photo. Seems that they are still quite popular.

*** Brunch dine-in-2021 #2 at Mak's Chee, Midvalley Mall ***

 

10.54 am - a small bowl of beef brisket and tendon noodle in soup at MYR 14.90++ and a big bowl of 6 Wantons and 3 sui gao aka dumplings at MYR 22.90++ because a small bowl wouldn't be enough for both of us since I like to eat the Wantons and dumplings of this eatery. 

The beef tendon has a lot of slippery membranes covering it which makes me a bit queasy to eat it as these membranes are usually removed for beef tendons served in my favourite beef noodle restaurant Yong Kang in Taipei. A normal eater would find the small bowl of noodles to be too little but I like the small portion size because it leaves me room in my stomach for Wantons and dumplings.

10.57 am - A small portion of luncheon meat lard rice at MYR 14.90++ which is just rice fried in light lard oil since not much lard taste and definitely no deep fried lard aka ju yao zhar in the rice. I ate a bit of the fried egg white since I don't eat runny yolks, a bit of rice, a piece of cucumber and a piece of luncheon meat which is very tasty.

Shared this milk tea in ice at MYR 8.50++ before he asked me to drink it all because he tastes milk at the bottom.

Total price is MYR 71 nett, a bit over our brunch budget but a very satisfying Brunch so it was worth the price but maybe not worth the risk if we catch anything. At 10.38 am, there was only one table occupied so we went in to dine in. At 11.30 am, when we went to pay our bill, there were 3 tables occupied by customers. Hopefully we didn't catch anything.

The names of the dishes in chinese characters in the order slip.