Oriental Cravings @ One Utama

I always have this mindset that restaurants in shopping malls are normally not as great, but that mindset of mine somehow drifted and changed when I took the guts to try out Oriental Cravings. Obviously, I went in the restaurant with not much expectation but just a restaurant to fill my empty tummy. I decided to try this place and to my surprise, the food is actually quite tasty. I knew I was skeptical about the place because you're paying a whole lot more for a bowl of curry noodles as compared to the ones you get at hawker centre. To my belief, I thought "how great can a bowl of curry noodles/laksa be, when you are paying about RM20 instead of RM6?".

But, enough with all the chitty-chats, above all, I had a decent and satisfying meal. Please do note that the curry laksa is non-halal as it consists pieces of roasted pork. To me, it was a decent bowl of laksa, better than most of the "shopping mall" outlets laksa. However, what blew me away was the Fried Yam Cake and the Cendol. Yes, the Cendol. The cendol was delicious, just the right amount of Gula Melaka. And their cendol isn't frozen(which is good!).

My verdict: - Skip the laksa (as many hawker stalls out there, serves better ones), go for the Fried Yam Cake and Cendol. I have not tried the rest of the dishes available, but there were a number of patrons that ordered the Rice Wine Meeshua (I'm not a fan of Meeshua, so I may not be the right person to taste it).

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