Anjappar KL

What to eat: Chettinad Meal

Where: Anjappar Restaurant, Brickfields, Little India, Kuala Lumpur

Verdict: After a day long trip to Genting Highlands, we returned to KL Sentral late evening. And wanted to have some heavy Indian meal as we were too tired and starving. Within few minutes of stepping out of bus, we got into Anjappar near KL Sentral. Ordered for 2 non veg meals, egg podimas (burjji).

Meal was just like the same we get in Chennai....it had sambar, rasam, veggie poriyal, koothu, chicken/mutton/fish gravy, curd, pappad with limited steamed rice. Totat bill was 20.5 MYR including a water bottle. Worthy place if you want a sumptuous chettinad non veg meal. If you're a veg and have lot of money, you can always go to Saravana Bhavan which is just next after few doors.

Saravana Bhavan KL

What to eat: South Indian Veg Cuisine

Where: Hotel Saravana Bhavan, Brickfields, Little India, Kuala Lumpur.

Verdict: Whole world knows Saravana Bhavan is costly for less quantity. But we had no option as we were going to a Chinese Temple in Genting Highlands where we are not sure if we get Indian food. So we had only Saravanan Bhavan in mind. We entered their branch in Little India next to KL Sentral. Ordered for idly, medu vadai and coffee for break fast and then 2 packs of coriander rice for parcel so that we can have it in the chinese temple on the hill. Idly and Medu Vadai were pretty decent with 3 types of chutnies, gun powder and sambar. Filter coffee was awesom as usual. I felt they were better than their branches in India. Total bill was 32.7 MYR which is pretty high when compared to local hawker stalls of KL.

Restoran Mamak Kampung

What to eat: Roti, Tea Tarik along with Chicken, Fish.

Where: Next to Victory Boutique Hotel, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur

Verdict: We stayed in Victory Boutique Hotel in KL during our last Malaysian visit. So this is the only option for chai and late night meal. This restoran (means "Restaurant" in Malay language) is open for 24 hours with staff working in 2 shifts. We had Roti Canai (Regular Parotta), Roti Canai (Egg Parotta) and Tea Tarik (Tea made of milk cream).

They have a comprehensive menu of non veg delicacies made out of Egg, Chicken, Fish, but no pork as most of the customers are muslim. Meat and Seafood fries and gravy items are available all through out the day and night, even at 5AM ;) We were deeply skeptical to have meat at early morning, but the local eat all the time. We also used to have dosai sometimes which is pretty ok.

Shop owner and one of the cook were happy to see us speaking tamil. Had a nice discussion with them about their last visit to Tamilnadu. Chef who works in night shift was from Sivakasi, a small town in Tamilnadu. They really do a lot of hard work...managing a resto for 24x7 is not that easy. But it seems pretty easy in Bukit Bintang area due to the easy procedure to acquire license compared to corrupted departments in India. Indian Govt should bring out a department to handle the whole set of licenses for hawker stalls and restaurants so that lakhs of people gets employed. Hope my wish becomes a reality soon in our country.