Kiasu Restaurant Review

The other day, Fyne, Stan and your beloved Chun Howe met up for lunch for a quick de-craving of Malaysian food at the afamed "Kiasu Restaurant" in Bayswater.

Kiasu is a legendary restaurant in the eyes of the home-food-sick people of Malaysia, Singapore, and some would even say Indonesia and Thailand. It's even well known in the circle of the locals here. Hence, we couldn't help but to give Kiasu a run for its reputation and this is what we ordered, under the recommendations of the waiter:

 

Or Jian (Fried Oyster Cake) 

The OJ was too oily for our liking, and even at the spiciest, we were failed to be amused. It did had some oysters and the taste was alright, but OJ was one of the dishes we were looking forward to, and it turned out to be some mash of oyster and flour stirred by a blind man. 

 Gado-gado (Mixed salad or sorts)

I think this was called Gado2. I think. I don't eat this quite often back home, but we just tried. Turned out to be a cheap mix of mixed vegetables like sprouts and cucumber alongside an half boiled egg, prawn crackers and satay sauce. Now even a five year old could think of more interesting stuff to put in, like mammoth steak and giant lobster drumsticks.

Char Kui Tiow (Fried Rice Noodles)

This may have saved a bit of Kiasu's reputation, but it still wasn't a match for the food connoisseur that we were for Malaysian food. A debate sprang out of the origins of the cooking style but was soon overshadowed by the discovery that there were no seahams in the CKT!

OMG! NO C-HUMPS IN A CKT!? BLASPHEMY I TELL'YA!

Lo Ark (Braised Duck?)

This, dish, was a complete waste of time. The duck seemed to be pre-cooked and then some horrible bottled sauce bought cheaply from Asda was poured onto it. Horrendous dish, the way it was cook was appaling that they even dared to put this dish on the menu. The locals might be fooled into this but we weren't gonna be...

So despite the bad reviews, why am I still blogging about this? (is it that I want to show off my photography skills?)

Laksa (Rice noodle spicy prawn-based soup)

This thingy, I finished the whole bowl. Despite it's lack of ingredients, its soup was really nice for a change. Well, it could be made using prepacks but hell, I can't write all bad things about the food in a restaurant right? Or else who's gonna treat me dinner to write a review for them in the future? The soup was awesome, noodles were authentically assam laksa noodles (aha, see? we Malaysian know), and the prawn taste stood out and made me hallucinate about dancing prawns swimming in the circle around me~

Verdict: Go to Kiasu and don't order anything else except the Laksa (unless you're a Mat Salleh and can't tell the difference). There're better Malaysian food restaurants outside anyway.

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Kiasu Restaurant (link to site) 

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