“Don’t judge a
book by its cover”, that the suitable phrase to describe this restaurant. This
restaurant does not have an interesting looks and appearance just by looking it
at the first time. But at the second glance of it, this place might look
romantic enough that may attract youngster especially love birds to dine in
this restaurant. Do you ever wonder why do they choose Kitchen Rahsia for the name of the restaurant?
Is that because of the location is hard to find or because of the secret recipe
of the menu? To be honest I also don’t know why they choose that name. Maybe
the secret will be reveal after you read this blog entry.
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| Grade A given by Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia |
Kitchen Rahsia is
located at a residential area around Batu Buruk, Kuala Terengganu. This
restaurant maybe a little bit hard to find because of it’s almost look alike a
house and there is no landmark around the restaurant. Owned by Taufiq Maryuti
which also the executive chef at the restaurant. This restaurant specialised in
western cooking but also has other type of dish other than western. The
restaurant can accommodate only 60 people at one time and the total of us dine
in at the restaurant is about 50 people. The business hour of Kitchen Rahsia started at 5.30p.m to 12.00a.m
and they will have their break at 7.00p.m to 8.00p.m. And, the restaurant will
close every Thursday and Friday. The kitchen was very clean and organized and
customer can look what the chefs are doing in the kitchen because of the big
transparent window allowing them to look in the kitchen. Despite the ordinary
looking restaurant, this restaurant was very clean and the Kementerian Kesihatan giving them Grade A for the cleanliness and
safety of the restaurant.
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Upon arriving at this restaurant, there is one thing
lingering in my mind, “is this the restaurant?” because of it look so ordinary
and almost look alike a mamak stall. The
restaurant was opened exclusively for us on that day because we have an
academic trip to Terengganu and the restaurant supposed to close on that day
because it Friday. Because of we arrive at the restaurant early, the buffet
line was not ready yet and I took this opportunity to explore the restaurant
and interview the chef at the restaurant. I have the opportunity to interview
Chef Hadi Abdullah and I ask him about the foods and ingredient of the
restaurant and he answered, “All the preparation we did from scratch and we use
fresh ingredient where the raw ingredient is bought daily”.
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| Chicken Roulade |
After a several
minute, a chef yelled “dinner’s ready and enjoy your meal”. The first glance at
the buffet line, I already decides what will me going to choose for my first
bite. I choose the chicken roulade because I look so delicious and it has a
nice smell coming out from it that makes me drooling. The chicken roulade was
stuffed with chicken ham, cheddar cheese and button mushroom, and accompanied
with vegetables which is carrot and broccolis, served with cocktail sauce. The
chef also recommended us to mix the cocktail sauce with black pepper sauce to
give some kick to the sauce and of course to make it tastier. The cocktail
sauce consists of ketchup, chilli sauce and a bit of black pepper sauce and it
is suitable to eat with fried food especially the chicken roulade. The first
bite I took for the perfectly cooked golden brown chicken roulade with the
already modified cocktail sauce, it was “wow” and delicious. The chicken was
tender and juice and the taste of chicken ham and cheddar cheese were
harmonically combined. And of course with the modified cocktail sauce which is
cocktail sauce combine with some of the black pepper sauce make the chicken
roulade up to another level. The vegetable was perfectly cooked, neither to
tender nor undercooked. I was wordless. I thought an ordinary looking
restaurant would have an ordinary taste dish but it was the other way of it.
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| "Air Driver Lori" |
For the beverage
I choose what they called “air driver lori”. This was the signature drink of
the restaurant and they say customers always ordered this drink. This drink is
made from longan, cincau and candied winter melon. They said this drink can
also lower down body temperature because of the ingredients was traditionally
use by Chinese people as a fever treatment. So I recommended this drink if you
feel hot or your body temperature raised after you eat durians. It will help to
lower down your body temperature.
After all, foods
in this restaurant are delicious and are recommended to everyone out there who
searching for western and local food that can satisfy your appetite. The price
also reasonable. I greatly recommended this restaurant although it ordinary
looking. But look at other angle; you can bring your friends and lepak at this restaurant until closed
where you hardly do at other restaurant because of its image. Moreover, you
also can have dinner with your boyfriend or girlfriend here for a special
occasion. I’m sure there were secrets lies within this restaurant. Is that the
foods or the appearance? Nobody knows.
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| The ordinary looking interior but it kinda romantic |
