LongTable Traditional Nyonya food, Plaza Glomac, Kelana Jaya

This nyonya shop is still relatively new, opened a few months ago at Plaza Glomac. Long Table was established by a family where they wanted to preserve the typical nyonya style cooking of Penang.

We were treated to sample some bowls of Penang assam laksa. This laksa had a very thick fish broth, mostly from the amount of shredded fish, in this case ikan kembung. It was very tasty especially when eaten with the ‘har gou’ (shrimp paste).

For starters, we had cucur udang. This cucur udang defers abit from the usual one we get from the roadside because the batter used was lighter, and it didn’t give that heavy feeling. Furthermore, it was mostly bite size pieces, so it doesn’t take up too much space in the tummy for the more good food to come.

Roti babi. This I only thought we can get in Penang, but Long Table offers this delicacy in their humble restaurant as well. As the name says, this is bread filled with a filling of pork, potatoes, carrots and peas. Eat it by dipping it in the lea perrins sauce which comes together with it.

Our first main dish came, which was Ikan Gulai Tumis aka curry fish. The fished used here in this dish was black pompret and it came packed with ladies fingers. Not too spicy because I was able to eat it. The fish also gave some sweetness to the curry.

Sambal Petai Prawns was up next. A petai lover, I absolutely loved this dish because they were so generous with the petai, as well as the prawns. Went really well with my rice. Yummy.

Next was Ince Kabin or fried chicken. This fried chicken came with a dark brown colour, almost looked like it was burnt, but I later learnt that it was how it was marinated. I found the chicken abit hard initially when I bit into it, but once you get to the meat, its really quite tender and juicy. It also came with a sprinkle of tiny keropok, which all of us finished up in no time.

And how can we have a nyonya meal without ‘Ju Hu Cha’. Eaten together with the fresh lettuce, this dish was very refreshing. Furthermore, the black chinese mushrooms in this dish, helped soak up alot of the moisture, hence it almost had a juicy texture to it.

Steamed otak otak was one of the final dishes. I like this version of the otak otak as compared to the ones that are grilled, because this one retains  more moisture since its steamed. It doesn’t feel too dry. Furthermore its wrapped in banana leaf, it smells extra fragrant.

To close our meal, we finished off with some sweet desserts. Onde-onde and Jemput Jemput aka Co-codok. I loved the onde onde especially when I bite down into the center where the gula malacca will come gushing out. You’ll keep going back for more.

The jemput jemput, I haven’t really tasted it before this, but if i remember correctly it was actually deep fried mashed bananas. Interesting, but this should be eaten hot because if not, it’ll go all soft and have that ‘masuk angin’ feel to it.

We really enjoyed our time there at LongTable. Good food and good company. You can never go wrong with those two combinations.

**Dear readers, please note that LongTable is closed on SATURDAYS and not on Sundays as previously stated **

LongTable

The Long Table Restaurant
Block D-02-1, D-03-1
Glomac Plaza Jalan SS7/19
Kelana Jaya
47301 Petaling Jaya
Selangor

Non Halal

Opening times

Sunday to Friday ( CLOSE ON SATURDAY)

LUNCH  – 11.30 am till 3.00 pm

DINNER – 6.00 pm till 10.00 pm

Tel:012 2469928

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