My Elephant Thai Restaurant, Aman Suria

Awet Thai Seafood Thai Restaurant wins hands down for their Thai food when compared to My Elephant Thai Restaurant. My Elephant Thai Restaurant generally inclines to  Thai fine dining in an economical sense. Thai food are served in pretty plates and has a touch of decorations on the platter. However, taste wise, it has many areas to improve.

My Elephant is relatively well known among both the KL and PJ crowd. My Elephant would be one of the favorite choice for a decent Thai food experience though I would like to beg to differ that their Thai food isn't as authentic as it should be.



Mieng Kham

My favorite Thai appetizer is the Mieng Kham where raw condiments are wrapped in leaves and eaten with a  special sauce. The Mieng Kham here is nothing compared to Amarin Thai Restaurant (Midvalley) or Rama V in KL. The lack of raw ingredients as evident in the picture is the first disappointing factor. With 10 pieces of leaves, it is obviously insufficient. Secondly, the sauce was disappointing without any strong lemongrass or fish sauce taste. It was relatively bland.

Green Aroma Cooler

The Green Aroma Cooler was good with strong Pandan taste and a very soothing taste. I do recommend it for something different.

Citron Cooler

 Another wonderful beverage where the citrus taste is evident in the drink itself. My Elephant serves pandan water as your normal water. Pandan leaf is boiled with plain water, however, no sugar was added. Hence you can smell the pandan but it taste just exactly like plain water.

Stir Fried Vegetables

 Once again, it is a basic stir fried vegetables with garlic and a tad too much starch.

Pandan Fried Chicken

In the aspect of the popular Thai dish of chicken wrapped in pandan leaf, My Elephant failed it badly. My first impression of the dish was for the chicken to be served wrapped in pandan leaf, but it looked like an extremely batter coated deep fried chicken. I was disappointed to be honest. The taste was average and not as juicy as I would like it to be.

Steam Fish with Signature Thai Sauce

My Elephant's steam fish with signature Thai sauce. There was not much to shout about, a tad of sweet and sour with a tinge of spiciness. 

Green Curry

The Thai Green Curry was miserable in terms of the serving. There was few miserable pieces of chicken soaking in a whole bowl of green curry which I personally felt a too sweet. 

Glutinuous Rice with Mango and Coconut Milk

Out of all the dishes, I think the dessert qualified as slightlyl above average. Another signature Thai dessert - the gultinous rice with mango and coconut milk was generally satisfying. However, I think Awet Thai Restaurant had a better recreation of the popular Thai dessert.

Waterchestnut with Jackfruit in Coconut Milk 

My all time favorite dessert - this was really disappointing in so many ways. Firstly, there ice were in chunks and blocks. I like it cold but without ice bits. Secondly, the amount of jackfruit and waterchestnut was ridiculous. It was literally coconut milk. It was disappointing much to my dismay.

To summarize my whole experience, this is definitely not a place where I will be back for a second visit. The food was definitely not worth the price I paid for. 

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Awet Thai Seafood Restaurant, Kampung Kayu Ara

Awet Thai Restaurant - you may or may not heard of it. But it is pretty popular for its Thai food, I didn't even know of its existence till dad told me about it. If you need a good Thai fix, this is the place.

 

There are several outlets, but I tried out the one in Kampung Kayu Ara. The restaurant itself is located off the mainroad, where one would have to turn into Kampung Kayu Ara to find the restaurant. On weekends, it is crowded and jam packed with customers. It is definitely a good idea to book a place prior to visiting the place.

 

 

Tom Yum Soup

Do not expect bland watery tomyum here. Instead, you get a thick and well boiled tomyum soup. The strong taste of tom yum and ginger is present. However, the seafood in the tom yum soup was not overpowered by the tom yum taste, instead it contributed a deliciously seafood taste in the soup itself.

Thai Salad

 

The Thai salad is simple and unpretentious. Fresh juicy prawns are tossed with onions, chili, minced pork and capsicum, a significant hint of lime juice coated all the ingredients. It was sour but delicious, I am confident that a splash of fish oil was added into the salad.

 

 

Tom Som

This is different from the normal red tom yum soup, instead it is of clear broth but nonetheless, delicious. Between the tom yum and tom som, I love the tom sum better.

Stir Fried Angle Beans

The angle beans was stir fried in basic garlic and oil and combination. It was delicious, but I was less than impressed by the amount of starch they added into the dish to give it a whole glossy, thick coating.

Salt Baked Fish

Salt Baked Fish

The fish was covered in thick sea salt before being tossed into the oven for baking. The outer crust is salt based and will be removed, we will only consume the flesh itself. The fish was delicious and the salt gave the fish a simple seasoning that doesn't outshines the freshness of the fish itself. Best eaten when freshly served.

Pork Chop

 

The pork chop is Awet Thai Seafood Restaurant signature dish. The pork chop was surprisingly tender and well marinated. When dipped into the sauce of garlic and chili, it was good, The pork chop was tender enough to be made for sandwiches.

 

Baked Pumpkin with Eggs

Baked Pumpkin with Eggs

The baked pumpkin with eggs was superb and damn good. I can just have it for dinner. The pumpkin was baked to softness and perfection where each spoon digs into the flesh easily. The egg custard complimented the pumpkin so well. The richness of the egg custard complimented the blandness of the pumpkin. I really recommend it.

Ice Kacang

The ice kacang was a disappointment. It was bland despite the mountain of ingredients added into the bowl of ice.

Mango with Glutinous Rice

Mango with Glutinous Rice

 

Another signature Thai dessert which deserves two thumbs up. The glutinous rice was warm and goes well with the coconut milk and mango. Nothing says comfort food like the combination. It was just so good with warm rice, cold mango and cold coconut milk.

 

I would return for a second round definitely and the dessert makes it to the top of my list. It would be a good place for some above average Thai food.

 

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