Tajudin Nasi Briyani, Medan Pasar Kuala Lumpur

When it comes to food, I am undoubtedly a rice person (China-man mah!). And when it comes to the different varieties and preparation methods of rice, Nasi Briyani is undoubtedly ranked among the highest in terms of taste in my books. I am very fortunate to be working near one of the best Nasi Briyani stalls in KL, namely Tajudin Nasi Briyani in Medan Pasar.

This humble little nasi briyani stall has been the ultimate GO TO place for workers around Medan Pasar. Located in a back alley, kindly disregard hygienic and comfortable surroundings if you plan to eat here but trust me, the food is absolutely to die for.



































The speciality here is their nasi briyani with fried chicken, which cost RM5. thats right, freaking 5 ringgit? Where to find in KL??? The meal comes with their signature smabal, which is smooth and sweet and not spicy at all along with fresh cucumber slices. I usually order a side of sambal eggs as well as I love some eggs with my lunch. The rice is very aromatic with a hint of saffron, and is really soft and fluffy, absolutely how good nasi briyani should taste like.


































The fried chicken here smells absolutely impressive. I suspect they use kampong chicken as the meat is lean yet tender, and of course very very juicy. Make sure you load up the fried chicken skins & flour leftovers or charcoal bits as I like to call them. heh.

















As for the smooth sambal, its definitely one of the best sambals I've ever tasted. The lack of hotness in this sambal compliments the rice really well without overpowering it. For those who prefers something with an extra kick, various curry sauces and extra hot sambals are available for you as well.






















Besides fried chicken, Tajudin offers a lot more choices of meat as well, such as mutton, quail, fish and squid. They also serve roti canai in the mornings too.









































































Tajudin is realy a great find in the middle of KL, offering great food which comes with modest pricing. I personally go there every single week for lunch. So note that parking is non existing there and its absolutely packed during lunch as there are less than 15 seats there. I normally go there around 12 or 3pm just to beat the lunch crowd.

Here's a map for you readers. The place is really hard to locate if you are not familiar with the area. It's located between the old OCBC byuilding and a stationary shop, opposite a money changer shop. Look for the fruit stall facing the main road and Tajudin is just next to it.













Nasi Briyani Tajudin

Lorong Bandar 13 off Jalan Tun HS Lee,
Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 012-265 3653/ 016-602 3737 (Mr. Tajudin)

Opening Hours:
10am - 4pm




doggyjames says...a great hidden gem in the middle of KL, this warrants a place on my TOP 10 Malaysian makan places, you die die must try!

Stone Cafe, Seksyen 13 Shah Alam

Me & my office mates frequently drive to sek.13 for lunch whenever we have a chance. This day we had the "sek.13 feel" again so off we go. Instead of the normal coffe shops we frequently visit, we found this new place, Stone Cafe. Nice exterior and all so, we thought we gave it a try.

















front view


















interior

The restaurant certainly looks very nice, well it IS one of the newly built restaurants there. Interior looks new and very spacey, well a little too spacey...wonder how are they going to cope once the crowd has been built up?

Anyways lets moce on to the F&B.

Carmen's Iced mint coffee is certainly the BOMB. From her looks you know you have to try it, yes?






















the only thing good here...notice carmen happy haha

The coffee was really good...HOWEVER the good part ends here.

First dish to arrive was my wet char kuey teow. Tasteless, bad texture and simply just plain bad. a plate of tasteless flour for RM6.50...i instantly got pissed off. WTH is this crap? I don't think anyone would have finished this plate of...sighz. I had to order a cuppa black coffe KAO to wate everything down...luckily the coffe was good.

















wet char kuey teow


















good cuppa coffee to wash the cr@p down

Carmen's Cantonese Style Bee Hoon wasn't any better either. In fact from what she descripe, it was like eating bee hoon with tasteless water. Simply awful, tasteless and really....just BAD.

















canton mee hoon

If you think what me & Carmen had was bad...wait till you see this:

Pauline ordered the Nilam Sandwich set ( just normal sandwich with ham & mayo) & fried chicken wings. For RM 9 for the sandwich & RM 4 for the wings I'd expect a nice triple decker sandwich & juicy wings. But no...she had 2 slices of white bread slapped with mayo & ham, some soggy fries and hard, dry dark sticks that resembles parts of a chicken. BAD!

















overpriced roti & ayam

We weren't happy in the end...











unhappy customers

Heres a map for you readers, just in case u wanna try it...


















Stone Cafe
No.48 Jalan Ragbi 13/30
Seksyen 13 Shah Alam

Tel: 6016-413 2013


Doggyjames says...not eye see.

Desa Paku Restaurant, Bukit Jelutong Shah Alam

About 10am on a boring Tuesday morning my work lunch buddy/residential cutie pie/wacky becky Rebecca mentioned this new place just opened near the office. So not willing to go for the same mixed rice, mamak and too lazy to drive out, me and another lunch buddy Carmen decided to try this place out

Literally minutes away from the office, this place provides a different feel from the usual kopitiam & mamak stalls around my office (my office=very JAKUN place). I like the feeling inside out, nice simple yet comfortable feeling...this is soooooo gonna be the place for me to snake...lolz


















Desa Paku Restaurant


The seating inside is quite nice and comfy too, with minimal number of patrons as its still the first day...this looks very promising i told myself


















nice simple & clean setting


They have 2 basic food groups namely rice & noodles. The rice section includes the usual chicken rice, fried rice, nasi campur etc and as you can see in the picture, there are quite a few selection for their nasi campur. As i found out from the boss later this is apparently a malay/thai cuisine restaurant...nice!


















dozens of dishes to choose from


There is also a noodles section as well. The interesting thing is that over here, all the noodle dishes are made right in front of you. they have these huge claypots holding up the soups: tomyum, curry, sup rempah & a clear broth looking soup...this kinda reminds me of Bakso style noodles btw...they serve those nice yellow meehon like noodles which really taste nice


















noodles...old school style


Being a rice and curry person I went straight to the dishes, picked out some spicy sayur paku and overloaded the rice with curry & lemak. Interestingly I decided to try their ayam percik too, although I am not so into chicken. Their ayam percik however looks really appetising, even Becky & Carmen decided to order some for themselves. Besides those they also have seafood e.g. fish, squid, prawns & if my eyesights serve me well...crabs. There are beef & lamb too


















my mixed rice with ayam percik, sayur paku & some sambal


The verdict? to be honest it was a little dissapointing...the vegetables were too cold and a little bit salty...and chicken was cold too. But despite saying that I really liked their seasoning on the chicken, would really wanna try this piece of baby HOT. The curry sauce are not too bad either...just how i like them, spicy and fatty! The sambal balacan was really really good! fragant and spicy, totally how sambal balacans are supposed to be


















becky & carmen poking their ayam percik


Becky took the tomyum noodles. Accoding to her the tomyum was...dissapoiting. the soup was almost tasteless (on my count) but they do throw in a generous amount of seafood & prawns...5 BIG ones by her count...and fresh too!























becky's tomyum


Carmen decided to have a hailanese style seafood fried noodles. This was surprisingly pleasant! The sauce was really fragrant and packed full of great taste and again, the noodles was accompanied by several big & fresh prawns. Carmen really enjoyed her meal























carmen's hailan style seafood nooldes



After the meal I decided to have some kuih as dessert...kuih were alright but a piece of advise: when your lunch buddy ask you to get the kuihs heated up microwave style....DO NOT DO IT!!! *stares at Becky*


















post microwaved kuih


Lunch was OK for me. Since its their first day of business I shall give them some room for improvement. The gals however seemed like they've really enjoyed themselves!


















the cute girls!


Heres a map for you readers should you need it. Coming from NKVE & Shah Alam just drive straight untill you see the flextronics factory. Then turn left immediately. You should be able to be The Star on your right and some shoplots on your letf. Turn left when you see HeiTech village and turn left at the first turning. Then follow the road all the way. You will then see Desa Paku on your right very soon.





















Doggyjames says...Good option for lunch for office folks in the area, room for improvement