Banana Leaf Weekend?

Over the weekend I got a message from a good old buddy (a childhood friend and fellow parishioner from Kuala Terengganu) asking me if we’ll be sampling banana leaf rice. He’s now residing in Brussels (and no, he’s not Jean Claude Van Damme) and comes back to Malaysia every so often, and he misses Malaysian food terribly.

Bless his soul! We’ve overlooked this particular cuisine so it looks like we’ll be leafing through some banana (pardon the bad pun) this weekend, and Brendan cannot be more thrilled.

Everyone who knows us intimately will know of our son’s obsession with chicken curry, specifically the south Indian variety. We swear at the rate he’s going we’ll have an Indian lady for a daughter-in-law, given his penchant for curry since his prepubescent days.

We did some research and came up with the following options:

Restoran Kader

24, Jalan Lebuh Ampang

50100 Kuala Lumpur

+60320728244

Mathai's Banana Leaf Rice

Mayflower Seafood Restaurant

144A Jalan Vivekananda, Brickfields

50470 Kuala Lumpur

+60322603698

Vishal Food & Catering

No. 22, Jalan Scott off Jalan Tun Sambanthan, Brickfields

50470 Kuala Lumpur

+60322740995

The first shop is near and dear to us, and is actually our default banana leaf restaurant (within walking distance from our apartment). The latter two shops are what we’ve gleaned off the internet. Yes, there are a slew of banana leaf establishments in Bangsar and Petaling Jaya but we’d rather not pay through our noses to experience banana leaf dining.

So Mr. Francis Felix Cherian, you wish is our command J