Mamak

Mamak

366 Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

After collecting our race packs for sunday's colour run, we decided to go somewhere closer to Melbourne Central for lunch. Mamak sells Malaysian cuisine, something closer to home and it is crazy pack during lunch time. Some spice to wake our taste buds.

Mamak has other dishes that are pretty good such as satays and roti canai (refer pictures from malaysia festival). Mamak has an outlet in Sydney as well I guess. Happen to come across their stall at Sydney's Chinatown night market.

The pineapple peanut sauce that comes with the satays is a pleasant surprise. It brings out the flavour of the BBQ skewed meat but it is pretty pricey for a local delicacy in Singapore.

 nasi udang - would prefer if they do not prepare the prawns with soda for the fake crunchy taste. It is so hard to find really fresh seafood in the city unless you drive out to the fish market which can be pretty troublesome.

curry ayam - pretty spicy judging from the fact that the dish is aimed to cater to the australian taste.

maggie goreng - my favourite, strongly recommended by my friend Vanessa. 

Piece of advice : Go for the set lunches, very much cheaper and it serves the same portion as the mains. 

Have fun peeps :D

Petaling Street - Melbourne CBD

Petaling Street - Melbourne CBD

1f/188 Little Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Went there on 2 occasions with two different groups of friends which explains the two sets of photos. People from Singapore who miss the taste of home you can have another option apart from Killiney Kopitiam and shorter queue compared to Papa Rich you cango to Petaling street. I love their fried fish, a must have and almost everyone orders that there. The century egg lean pork porridge is quite tasty too.

On average I spent about $20 the first time and $16.45 the second- partly because I went with a huge group of friends after cell.

Feels sooooo good to have kang kong and lala after soooo many months. Apparently it is quite difficult to find kang kong here in Melbourne and restaurants charge quite abit for it. I remembered seeing AUD 18.90 on the menu at another eatery and thailicious! SO EXPENSIVE D: I miss my SGD4 kangkong at taste of thailand in Sinagpore, spicy and salty enough. Sambal kang kong won't taste good if you don't fry the balacan (shrimp paste) skillfully.

Here the sambal kang kong costs $13.90 if I remembered correctly, cheapest vegetable dish there too hahahas. Pretty satisfied as of now, but you can replace those I had back home. It is less spicy here to suit the local taste and preference which I can totally understand, so can't complain much. 

Killiney Kopitiam /Max Brenner Chocolate bar

End of mid-semester break and there's a club social gathering. Taste of home!

Killiney Kopitiam

Shop 11, 108 Bourke St 

Melbourne, VIC 3000

Max Brenner Chocolate Bar

210 Lonsdale St 25 - 27 Qv Sq 
Melbourne, VIC 3000

The hot chocolate , banana crepes with hot chocoloate sauce is soooo good ! Life is so good especially when you have good food :)

Shall let the pictures do all the talking teehee.