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User Reviews on Ashfield Cafe
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 comments
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Every Saturday is simply a day of luxury. My tastebuds get a workout with each and every visit to Ashfield Cafe', with the delicious heart warming Malaysian food on offer accompanied with the friendly chatter of Kevin and Gary. I have made my way to Ashfield almost every Saturday with their authentic exquisite specials of Nasi lemak and a tasteful Malaysin styled Chicken Rice.
With a variety of food ranging from curries, rices, noodles, (Aussie) burgers and the yummy satay sticks available everyday of the working week, I guarantee food satisfaction!!!!
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totallylovefood -
See my reviews 2 , 27 September 2008
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Food 8 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 7 |
Value 8 |
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Looks like a typical takeaway shop opposite Ashfield station but has a Malaysian menu as well as Aussie menu. Serves all day breakfasts too. Probably not the place to take a first date, formica tables and chairs.
Bought takeaway Malaysian chicken curry. Served the coconut rice/cucumber slices and the chicken in separate containers, lovely touch! Rice was creamy. chicken tender and mildly spicy. If you like Malaysian food, then try this place. Items on the blackboard included rendang, curries, noodles etc.
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Noodle Gal -
See my reviews 39, 13 September 2008
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Food 9 |
Ambience 6 |
Service 9 |
Value 9 |
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The best and only truly authentic assam laksa in Sydney! Very, very good Char Keow Teow and other Malaysian dishes. Don't be fooled by the appearance of the place. This is one of the three best Malaysian hawker food places in Sydney, streets ahead of the fancier Singaporean/Malaysian restaurants around the place. What makes it even more special is the classic Aussie burger and chips, egg and bacon rolls, etc. served out the front.
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ramjet -
See my reviews 4, 21 June 2008
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Food 9 |
Ambience 6 |
Service 6 |
Value 8 |
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Malaysian eateries worth their salt will try to do Nasi Lemak. And this cafe is no exception.
Having been there twice and having tried a few of their dishes now, I can say with a sense of comfort and relief ... that indeed there are Malaysians in Sydney who are cooking the food I have grown up with and loved.
But I digress. The subject at hand is the Nasi Lemak. What is it? And what makes it so important to a good Malaysian eatery? For one... this is a dish that juggles several ingredients and needs the cook to be good at putting them all together well. On the outset, it's just coconut rice with servings of curry, sambal, hard boiled egg and sliced cucumbers.
Upon inspection, you'll discover that the curry is distinctly different tasting from the sambal. And if the nasi lemak you're having is ambitious, there will be different types of side dishes on it. The one at this cafe had a beef rendang, chicken curry, squid sambal and anchovy sambal. In Malaysia, we would call this a luxurious nasi lemak. In my own opinion, I'd call it ambitious.
This dish is important because of its influences. The coconut rice is very Malay in influence. Here are a rural people who live simply. Eating rice and fish as their staple diet. The addition of coconut is what they do when they want to add luxury to their meals. These are a people who once had a saying "it's not everyday you eat chicken". A people who are used to living on meager staples in lean almost severe ways.
Nasi lemak is to them... a big deal. You've got rice that's been cooked with a sweet leaf and the milk of coconuts to bring out rich fatty creamy comfort. And then you have the humble dried anchovy stewing in onions, chilis, a touch of tamarind, perhaps a splinter of cinnamon and heads of pungent garlic simmering down until these petty slivers of the sea turn into an aroma and its saltiness merges with the almost everyday ingredients. The result is what we call, sambal. And this chutney textured chili jam pasty aromatic dish is a complex merge of spice, hint of sweet and a nod of sour.
Eaten together... the rich aromatic coconut rice, with the spicy sweet sour flavours creates contrast, depth and most of all a taste sensation worthy of a nod to the chef, a smile at oneself for ordering it and a look to the heavens thanking the creator for inspiring yet another culinary delight on our abundant earth.
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alliedjourney -
See my reviews 4, 07 February 2008
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