Restaurant Saravanna’s Banana Leaf Rice
It’s easy to find banana leaf rice during day time / lunch hour, but to find the same thing during evening / night time is going to take some effort and asking around. One day, Jerry brought me to this restaurant at Bukit Baru that serves banana leaf rice all day long until 11PM.
This restaurant, called Restaurant Saravanna is situated right opposite Bukit Baru’s Jiki’s food court (next to the Maxis specialized store), and according to Jerry, they are quite popular for the huge servings and banana leaf rice.
I sat down and ordered for a glass of iced water. I always find it fascinating when an Indian restaurant serves their drinks in stainless steel cups. I love the coldness whenever I hold the cup and the water droplets at the side of the cup is so “pretty”. For starters, Jerry ordered 5 pieces of “vade” which ended up us bringing back home. Yummy, but it did not blend well with my rice. -rolls eyes-
Stupid Jerry decided to boycott me and ordered a plate of “Maggi Goreng Ayam”. For the price of RM4.00, he got himself almost 2 packets of noodles and a handful of chicken meat. During our last visit, they gave Jerry a big chunk of chicken breast meat. Compare to those mamak shops in Bukit Beruang that charge the same price, they are like 1.5 times more generous with their ingredients. Even the plates / pizza pans they used are 2 times larger than other mamak shops!
I had banana leaf rice instead. 2 pieces of crunchy “papadam” (Is it the correct spelling?), which I later ordered another 2 pieces for RM0.50. A spoonful of cucumbers, onions and pineapple in coconut milk. Maybe it’s not coconut milk also.
A spoonful of potatoes and long beans in dried curry sauce and stir fried cabbage each.
A plate of dried chilies chicken and mutton rendang. The chicken was slightly dry, but the unlimited supply of chicken curry solved the issue. They chopped the mutton into small bite size but the meat weren’t superbly tender though, just nice. Both dishes weren’t spicy, kind of disappointment since I love spicy food a lot. The dishes came slightly cold but they heated it up with the microwave before serving.
I tried to change my picture style a little bit by going slightly macro focus in, and the picture ended so not appetizing. I think I will stick with my own style instead.
A bucket of chicken / mutton / fish curry for you to flood your rice.
All these for RM7.50. In fact, they should charged me RM15 for all the double servings. -lol- I had 2 servings of white rice, 2 servings of potatoes and long beans, 3 servings of cucumbers and onions, 4 pieces of “papadam” and 8 scoops of curry mutton. -bbbuuuurrrrrpppppp-
There’s a little knowledge whenever you have banana leaf rice. After you finish your meal, you should fold the banana leaf towards you, not outwards. If you fold the banana leaf towards you, it means the food is nice, you like it and you “accept” it. But if you fold it outwards, it means the food is bad and you are “giving” it back to the person / host. Is it true? I am not sure, but no harm following, right? After all, it does make sense.
Jerry ended his meal with another stick of ciggy.
As for me, I ordered a glass of “teh tarik”. Ha!
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November 15th, 2006 00:45
Rice on banana leave is nice and economical. One of deb and my favourites too as we like Indian food very much. It’s called papadam. Nice crackers, where you can find from the shops or market and fry it on your own. Yes, the folding leaf thingy is correct, as my Indian friends tell me so too… Even nicer if they have pickles or the sourish soup to go with the meal. Ah we all real makan kaki la 8-)
November 15th, 2006 01:22
Oh man…that looks so NICE! Can’t wait to eat that……..!!!!!!!!
November 15th, 2006 01:31
I miss malacca… I wanna eat also
November 15th, 2006 01:39
wahh wahh wahh..ciggy picture….. bad bad bad….
teach bad ppl lor..
November 15th, 2006 04:49
I’ve been thinking of this for a few days already. Sigh
I want to eat southern indian food!!!
November 15th, 2006 05:57
Each time I come, I regret it, now must go find Indian food, lucky I have Gold Roast teh tarik, can make my own. This Saturday when I go up San Francisco will definitely have to go look for Malaysian restaurant.
Btw thanks for blogging advise, will definitely take it to heart.
November 15th, 2006 07:15
war…. war.. since when you change layout arr?? omg…. the current layout is sooo clean…
November 15th, 2006 07:18
ooo ooo.. i like how this theme update new comment ^^ so canggih like that
November 15th, 2006 08:26
“After you finish your meal, you should fold the banana leaf towards you, not outwards”
There is another version to this….if you fold towards you, it means you will come again (for makan). If outwards, means you do not want to come again.
November 15th, 2006 09:58
lol ! I had Banana Leaf rice for my dinner too last night.
But mine is Kosong and Vegetarian version means no meat
and nothing else.
Rice 4 type of vege Papadam Dried Chili Fried Potato many
more. All at RM 3.80 and result ?
My tummy which looks like Perempuan Mengandung 8 bulan now -_-”
November 15th, 2006 11:30
it’s too heavy to have bannana leaf meal for dinner or supper.
eating on banana leaf is very appetising..due to blend of multi color food with fresh green background. hot food on the leaf is really serving it’s health reason.
very very fine dining experience..
real fine dine of indian cusine shall consist of 6 types of tastes which can get in Taali Rice Plate form..
btw..i love simple food…just to avoid “tummy to look like Perempuan mengandung 8 or 9 bulan’.
November 15th, 2006 11:33
Allison : The sourish soup is called “rasam”, I will order if I am at my usual Indian rice shop. Hehe.
Ah_Mike : Go search for a banana leaf rice restaurant?
KID1417 : Visit Malacca luuuu… :P
Milly : Nothing bad about putting pictures of people smoking.
Moopig : Ahaks, this post can give you the extra motivation to go out and eat Indian food.
Fire Horse : Wahaha, part of my blog’s job is to make people go hungry and objective achieved. Haha! You’re welcome.
Aprilcherrie : Change recently only, few days back. Hehe, got plugin to do that one.
Balajoe : Ah, so its true that there’s such “rules”. Hehe, thanks for enlightening.
Kai Hong : No meat then no fun already. You don’t see T-rex eat vegetables right? :P
KL Dude : Well, dinner or supper or lunch, it doesn’t really matter. If at that particular moment I am craving for it and there’s shop selling it, I am going to eat it. Haha! That’s explains my “tummy that looked like Perempuan mengandung 8 or 9 bulan’. As for the fine Indian cuisine, I have yet to try. Mind enlighten me where to get such food?
November 15th, 2006 12:17
craps, i hate to read this when i’m so darn hungry…arrghhh!!why hasn’t lunch time?i can’t wait anymore!
November 15th, 2006 17:23
Now you make me wanna eat banana leaf rice liao :P
November 15th, 2006 17:29
your dinner or supper is so heavy o…but once a time is very nice and shiok..
November 15th, 2006 19:10
I look like a drug addict man…
November 15th, 2006 20:51
stop promoting food in your malacca!!!! pls? hungry now*
November 15th, 2006 23:05
Stephanie : Haha, I hope your lunch tasted as good as my pictures. Ha!
Che-Cheh : Haha, go grab one then.
Irene : Hehe, heavy or light doesn’t matter. I still need to eat.
Analgestic : Because you are one. LOL.
Tze Shan : That’s my job what! :P If I don’t write about Malacca food, who is going to write? :P
November 16th, 2006 00:41
wrt about ah moi(s) in malacca! woohoooo~ or report something about MFA larh… since u r living there what :P
November 16th, 2006 13:02
waa how come each person the portion of food is so big.. no wonder u so happy with da food.. its just too much banana left.. dun u think so? any different taste? control ya!! have a nice day :)
November 16th, 2006 14:56
Yummy~
November 16th, 2006 16:09
your friend with the ciggy… HOU YENG ARRR
November 16th, 2006 17:14
Tze Shan : What da fark I blog about MFA? -.-lll Unless their airplane crash into one of my campus’ building or they let me go up to the air for free lah. As for girls, no hot chicks in Melaka one. :P
Tonyyy : They are famous for its big portion. Ahaks! Hehe, too much? Okay lah, a little heavy dinner, no doubt, but its still okay for me. :P
Jason : Wanna try?
Boss Stewie : What’s so cool about smoking? :P
November 19th, 2006 07:22
err jason, next time in KL i bring u to this banana leaf rice place near maybank KL, called anuja … damn cun wan i tell u, even if u eat vegetarian only ar, there is like 5 - 6 condiments edy …
papadam - free flow, vege free flow, the deep fried bitter gourd - free flow … and on fridays got free dessert …
normally for banana leaf rice, they dont charge for the papadam and extra rice … so get nasi beryani la, worth it ma - haha
November 19th, 2006 22:48
Earl Ku : The price of nasi briani here is RM6, with a piece of chicken, totally not worth it compare to banana leaf rice. Hehe, would like to try the shop you mentioned.
January 31st, 2007 20:09
诶，看的我好饿啊＾＆＾
January 31st, 2007 22:24
Emma : 去吃东西咯! :D