Authentic Persian Meal at Naab Restaurant

Again, courtesy of my 12 year old, we visited this restaurant. The story is, my son achieved 5 A's in his school exams and was rewarded by his aunt (my sis) with a Groupon voucher for a meal at Naab's.

So, another meal, courtesy of my dearest son.

Naab has a very nice ambiance, with soft middle eastern music playing in the background. and a very very friendly staff. They immediately served the three of us with drinks, even though, the coupon was for two. Hats off to them!!

Naab offers a wide variety of celebrated Iranian and Middle Easter cuisine. The lemonade, lightly spiced with mint leaves was very refreshing.

First we were served with Mirza Ghasemi, a mix of smoked eggplant and tomato, topped up with egg seasoned with garlic. You have to eat it with bread. At first, the combination of egg and the eggplant mash looked a little weird.Surprisingly, tt was a fresh, nice taste for our taste buds, and we enjoyed it all the way through.

We also had the Hummus Salad, also with hot bread. Yumm....

The Shirazi Salad was refreshing, with a slight hint of middle eastern spices, cumin maybe...

 

As we move on to the main course, the standard gets higher and higher. We had the Lamb Koobide Kebab, which was grilled marinated lamb, served with saffron rice. First, of all, the lamb was so tender, and well cooked, with all the right seasoning and flavour. The rice was fluffy, and fragrant.

We also had the Ghorme Sabzi Stew, chunks of lamb and chickpeas cooked in stew. It complimented the saffron rice.

For dessert, we had Baklava, a sweet pastry popular in Greece and the Middle East, consisting of multiple layers of butter-soaked phyllo pastry, spices and chopped nuts, a drizzled with sugar syrup and flavored rose water. And to top that off, we were served with Iranian tea, in cute little cups.

Beautiful restaurant, attentive staff and fantastic food....to sum it up..a wonderful evening!!

Spendid Thai Food in Bandar Puteri-Awet Thai

It was a special day, Mother's Day, and my son insisted that he "belanja" (treat) me for dinner on this day. So, we went to Bandar Puteri with the hope of finding a good Thai restaurant. We found this crowded restaurant, and you know, being Malaysian, we figured that somehow a restaurant that is packed must serve good food. Awet Thai, is a no frills restaurant in Bandar Puteri, Puchong.

Seafood Coconut Tomyam, we had was prepared really hot and sour here, definitely not for those who have a weak tolerance.It was  just the taste that suited the three of us. It was packed with prawns, fish and squid.

The staff told us the next dish, which I could not remember the name is their specialty so we decided to order. It was fried "siakap" (snapper) in a spicy gravy, which was appetizingly sourish. It was really good, and was something different from what we normally have. It came with extra gravy with such "umpph".

One of our family favourite dished is the deep fried "kangkung" (water spinach). The "kangkung" was crispy and was serve with a "mysterious" sauce (up till now I have no idea what it was), but satisfyingly delicious.

The last dish we had was the sambal petai, my favorite dish. The spiciness was just right, with medium size, fresh prawns, and it went so well, with the steaming hot rice.

Another interesting thing was , they served us with pandan water, in this very cute, silver cups.

As I said, Awet Thai is a no frills restaurant, but the food is definitely good. I would not mind a second trip. The best part of the day, was my 12 year old insisted on paying the bill, and the poor boy had only a 50 ringgit note, and needed his father to top up the rest :)