Monday, August 27, 2018

Asam pedas

I've been working with a different team at work this quarter, and we had a team lunch today. We initially planned to go to Pak Hussin Tomyam, but it was suddenly closed today due to lack of workers. (When we reached, they said they were opening at 4pm and not 12pm which was the usual time.)

We ended up going to Asam Pedas Premier which is situated at One Precinct, next to the Sunshine Market food court.

We decided to each order our own set, and just add on a few side dishes to share. I ordered daging panggang masak lemak cili api.


The beef is actually in slices:


The gravy was really good, creamy with a slight tinge of spiciness from the cili api. The beef was not really tender enough though. But since it was in thin slices, it was still okay.

Most of the others ordered rice with chicken: ayam goreng rempah, ayam rendang, ayam sambal. They said the ayam sambal was really spicy but good. Then one ordered ikan pari bakar, and another ordered daging bakar (which I considered but did not order because there was no photo to tempt me :P ) It turned out that the "bakar" items were like a Portuguese grill, wrapped in aluminium foil. But I didn't take photos of the main dishes other than mine...so I can't show them to you!

As for side dishes, we ordered cucur udang, which were nice and crispy at the edges, but lacked prawns.


Then there was sotong goreng tepung, which I really liked.


The batter is spiced, so there is no chilli dip for this (there was a dip for the cucur udang above).

As one of the others mentioned, we came to Asam Pedas Premier, but none of us ordered asam pedas. So we ordered a bowl of asam pedas pari to share.


Verdict? I liked both the asam pedas and my masak lemak cili api. As I mentioned above, I liked the sotong goreng tepung but not the cucur udang. My set cost RM13.50, and the others were around RM12-13 if I remember correctly. For lunch (Monday to Thursday), they had lunch sets which come with a free drink (basically the price is the same as on the usual menu but they give us kopi o, teh o, or sirap for free). I can't remember the prices of the side dishes and all though...and we haven't seen the bill yet!

Then at the end we took a group photo.


You can see the advertised cucur udang behind us...the prawn there is sure a lot bigger than what we were served!

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