Sedap Corner

For decades, Mi goreng from Indonesia used to reign our table when the residents were struck with craving for  instant super spicy noodles. Used to, cos now we have a new favorite instant noodle at home. The one from Korea.



Anyway going back to " mi goreng" being a product of Indonesia, you would have thought that it was just appropriate that I should have had first tasted the "un-instant" version of it in Indonesia, where else??. But no! I had a plate of it at Johor Bahru, Malaysia. haha.



I was so ready to just "pizza hut" but brother and bff saw an outlet in the mall which was serving local Malay dishes. We were at City Square, a mall at JB where relatively most familiar international fast food chains can be found. But enough of Kenny Roger's, J. Co, Starbucks,etc., My travel buddies pushed me to sit on a chair in Sedap Corner.

But since this was just another fast food outlet in a mall, we cut ourselves from expecting for authentic flavors of the dishes. When we randomly walked-in, we had no idea that Sedap Corner has been in the culinary market since the late 80's and was actually quite popular in the region and beyond.

When you least expecting it, your expectation tends to be met easily. From zero, no other number to get down to. So, my carnivore of a brother had "beef rendang". I actually stopped counting how often he had ordered this dish, during that particular Singapore-Malaysia trip. I think, wherever/whenever it's available, he had this.

At Sedap Corner, it actually came as meal with rice, some veggies vinaigrette and a handful of "kropek" . Well, no need to ask brother how was it cos all beef rendang, he likes.

nasi goreng kampung

nasi goreng too. Two platters of nasi goreng kampung were ordered by the two girls.

Me ofcourse_ordered...

.. mi goreng, whatelse! Fried mee siam. Too spicy I didn't finish it and shared the plate to the group. I kindah like the instant pack version better, haha.

For desserts, I'm now quite confuse which one we got from this dessert outlet across Sedap Corner. But on the table we got the following :



bubur cha cha. It was quite like our local "guinatan halo halo". And just now I realized I already have a post about this dessert here.



 Including other desserts and coolers we had could be seen in that post also.

 

Selera Restaurant

At Nongsa Point Marina & Resort in Indonesia, we took our lunch at the Selera Restaurant located at the wing of the hotel lobby.



The restaurant succeeds the white domination theme of the hotel.




For me the focal point of Selera is the picturesque  marina spreads infront of the restaurant. However, that day the rainy weather got in the way. I bet, from this focal angle, on a sunny day the marina would be a sight to behold.

I was pretty excited ( I swear I was! I always try to put on a poker face whenever, haha ) to taste Indo dishes. I might have had some of them in SG and Malaysia, but I couldn't specify at this point..

From this menu, the most I was familiar with was _ "goreng". Only because, back home_  mi goreng instant noodles are staple and would always occupy a big space in our weekly grocery cart.

Bestfriend was quick to order her favorite nasi goreng. I cut my confusion and mirrored her choice. She had it a lot of times here. .case closed, haha



Nasi Gorengkoe. Rice with chicken satay, fried chicken, fried prawns, sliced omelette, local pickles and prawn cracker. It's a chef creation and lemme warn you _ everything in the plate was spicy, yes even the rice... haaaahhh, waterrr please!!!!



Rendang. As usual my brother default dish would be meat!! Specifically something beef. Rendang is a popular Indonesian beef stew. The plate was served with rice, local pickles and prawn crackers.



Here in our country, I could compare this plate to our local tapsilog/tocilog/bangsilog. When you get to visit the Philippines, you try our original version of nasi goreng, okey.