Khukri Nepalese Restaurant

The Khukri Nepalese Restaurant

Mum came to me on a Friday night with a pile of papers on NEPALESE foods. Curiosity hyped, what does it look it?How does it taste like? Nepalese hmm...as i was thinking should taste like Indian foods as i guess. Well, I was not wrong actually but neither I was right. It was like a mix culture of Chinese, Indian, Mongolian, Bhutanese and the list actually goes on. The next thing was where is it...Mum said Jalan Silang/Jalan Tun Tan Siew Sin. Hmm...without having any clue to the location I agreed to mummy and we shall explore this place. 

As I was around the corner reaching to the restaurant, I only realized it was very difficult to find it with limited parking lots available. So, as I was walking, I was feeling very uneasy and scared as I was passing the sea of foreigners. They were everywhere, North,South,East and West and they gave me that scary look. The roads were packed with humans,buses, motorcyclist and not forgetting stalls everywhere. Oh my, where is this restaurant??? How long do I have to go through this before I can actually sit inside the restaurant. As I was walking, I was having a good impression about the restaurant already, I am not sure I would even find it. Lost!! And How racist I was. (I am so sorry but hygiene wise, I missed a few people trying to spit on the floor and thank goodness I was not hit with any of those.)

Look and look and look. Finally, we found it. This restaurant is on the first floor of an old building.  Aww, air-conditioned, this was something to look forward too after walking so long in a dusty and hot environment.

As we walk in, we were very well greeted by the waitress in the restaurant. We were seated in d middle of the restaurant and the this ornament caught my attention.

Guess guess guess?? For hand washing? To serve us water? worse... ash tray? Pretty heavy actually. Well, in the end I was guessing it is just an ornament as every table has one on it. I suppose it is made with real bronze. 

                        Back to the food intention, flipping through the authentic Nepalese menu.

Mo Mo

As appetizer, we ordered the Nepalese dumpling called ''mo mo" which looks something like the xiao long bao where you can get those in Dim Sum shops. So there is some Chinese culture in Nepalese. Okay this mo mo skin was abit thicker as compared to the xiao long bao that we usually eat. We ordered the chicken (meat choice- chicken/pork/lamb) was very well seasoned with curry powder It was served with Nepalese sambal like sauce, resembling the Indian Chutney but very much well blended with spices,tomatoes, ginger, onion, and I am still guessing the secret recipe.

Ahh...here comes the entree. The rice was supposed to be served with nepalese style stir fried saag with spices (spinach = bayam ) however it the vegetable served was mustard leaves (i guess this could be due to availability of produce or cost saving method by changing vegetables of which is cheaper for the day). Curried potatoes was also served together with this set. Lovely, the potatoes was cubed and cooked with spices and curry powder i supposed...garnished with crunchy green peas. Yummm...this actually reminds me of a dish my childhood Indian friend's mum cooking. The texture was just nice, soft yet not mashed.

Besides that, the rice is served with a meat curry (choice of meat = pork, chicken or lamb). We ordered the pork and chicken. Both curries looks and taste the same and the only differences between them was the choice of meat. The chicken was very tender and succulent however the pork was rather fatty and tough. It was very fibrous and old. I would definitely prefer if the pork was little more tender then it would be perfect. I guess it was also a blessing in disguised we did not order the lamb as it does look pretty tough by looking at the people eating them on the other table. (busy body me !!)

The accompaniment was a gravy or Nepalese 'dhal' curry but this is cooked with black lentils and barley. Very smooth like thin porridge, not spicy and taste like the savoury version of our mung bean soup.

 Another curry like gravy would be the chick peas curry with the skin still on it. The chick peas was very different compared to our ordinary chick peas we can get in 'pasar malam', very crunchy and a very good match with the potatoes cook together with it. This is also a non spicy curry but very different as compared to what we usually get in the indian banana leaf shop/ mamak stalls.  

This restaurant also served desserts the kheer (rice pudding dessert with milk) and halwa (semolina flour with milk). I wish I could try them out as well but the they look rather rich. I would definitely try them out the very next time. Still, I was not very satisfied although I am very full, I decided I would give the Nepalese milk tea a try.

Nepalese Spice milk tea

Seriously, when I saw it was served in a plastic cup, I do have my disappointment but the colour of the cup reminds me of the masak masak cups. The tea was very rich with milk...powdered milk in fact. It has also a very strong cardamon and cumin spice mix. This is definitely my first time taking spice tea with milk. It was not bad actually,best without the sugar and milk if I have a second chance.

For those who are very adventurous with food, this is indeed a good place to spice up your taste buds. Give it a try !!

Address

No. 26, First Floor

Jalan Tun Tan Siew Sin (Jalan Silang)
50050 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 03-2072 0663

Open daily, lunch and dinner.