Comments on: Kedah House Restaurant and Cafe

By: webmaster

webmaster — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:32:28 +0000

P, when we were there, they had one person in the front of house and one person in the kitchen. So yeah, if they had a crowd, I can imagine the food would take a while to arrive.

As for authenticity – I grew up in Singapore and I found the some of the food here to be authentic enough. Perhaps certain dishes you tried were off (like our tahu goreng and ice kachang for instance…)

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By: p

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:11:32 +0000

Went there some time ago – the food took forever to get to us & when it arrived, it was a rip off! It is not authentic & not well run. Will never go there again

By: shokutsu

shokutsu — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:44:23 +0000

I think my friend was just trying to force me to eat another dish that night, knowing full well I was maxed out and tried to pass that rojak as a after-meal item. Being it was my first time seeing that dish, I was an easy target for his highjinx.

Singaporean cuisine is wonderful for its variety and interesting melds of Chinese, Malay and Indian food to me. I have a few more posts from the region to get to, hope you stop by our site to check them out in the time ahead…

By: webmaster

webmaster — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:53:21 +0000

Thanks Shokutsu. Your Singaporean host has a pretty interesting take on rojak indeed ; I would consider it an appetizer or maybe an amuse (in much smaller quantities), but it would never cross my mind to classify rojak as a dessert. I see from your blog that you had been introduced to other Singaporean dishes besides rojak – how do the flavours agree with you?
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By: shokutsu

shokutsu — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:31:49 +0000

Very informative and educational post, thanks for sharing. I too often fall into the habit of trying out places that I’ve ignored for ages and pass by daily in my car. More often than not though, it turns into a miss.

I was first introduced to rojak in Singapore on a recent trip there. My Singaporean host told me that this was a dessert, since we’d already eaten our main meals that evening. Interesting that it is such a mix of ingredients, and hence really definable as a salad. The sweetness of the fruit must have been the reason he tried explaining it to me as a dessert.