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Satay

April 23, 2012 by Feisty Foodie 13 Comments

As I mentioned, I have been on a real Malaysian kick lately. I suggested one night that we head to Satay, where I’d been once very many years ago, and DLS was game for the quick drive from my place to the East Flushing location.

Satay 01.jpg

Our meal started with an order of roti canai, a thin, crepe-like pancake that, when done well, is chewy, soft, but crispy in spots. This was definitely a very good roti, served with a side of slightly spicy curry for dipping.Satay 02.jpgFor veggies, we ordered green beans with belacan, a dried shrimp paste that is extremely fragrant and almost fishy-smelling.  The green beans were cooked perfectly – slightly crisp, but cooked through – and the shrimp paste added a really nice dimension to the dish, a bit of umami and the pungent taste was great.

Satay 03.jpgSatay 05.jpgDLS mentioned always wanting to try ‘har mee’ (also known as udang mee), so we ordered this. This was the only miss of the night – neither of us liked it that much; though it wasn’t particularly spicy, it also wasn’t particularly flavored strongly. I had a little bit and relinquished the rest to him.

Satay 04.jpgOne of the dishes I’d long remembered from my first visit to Satay was the Malaysian cheong fun, which essentially is rolled rice noodles served with a delicious, slightly sweet sauce, a bit of hot sauce on one side, and a piece of eggplant stuffed with fish paste, a long okra stuffed with fish paste, a piece of tofu stuffed with fish paste, and this interesting crispy bit. While I really like the slippery noodles with the sauce, the eggplant was tasty, but the okra and tofu didn’t really add anything to the dish. I think I would be just as happy – possibly happier – getting this as a street cart dish with fishballs (Cantonese style, in Chinatown) instead of at a restaurant.  Does anyone know where else I can get this – I’ve only ever seen it on the menu at Satay?

Satay 06.jpgAt the last minute, I added a half a Hainanese chicken to our order, just to try it and be able to compare to other Malaysian restaurants. (Yes, one of the reasons DLS is a great dining companion is his ability to not hesitate and agree when I ask if we should order another dish, even though there’s only two of us and we’ve already got a LOT of food.)  The chicken was smooth, sweet, and balanced perfectly with the sweet soy sauce on the bottom of the plate – very juicy, tender chicken.  Yum.  I almost wish I had more stomach room to eat more of this…

Satay 07.jpgDLS also ordered a lychee drink, and myself a soy milk. Both were good.

Satay 08.jpgThe last dish to come out was satay, which I found super tender – not like jerky at all, which sometimes I find satay can emulate when overcooked or over-marinated.  I was impressed with just how tender it was, though as it cooled, it began to toughen up a little bit.  The peanut sauce was delicious as well.

We wound up taking a lot of the food to go, but the server (who I think might have also been a manager) was pleasant about it and did a really good job packing it all neatly – including all the sauces – in a bag so that it wouldn’t spill on our drive back.  Really friendly and pleasant service, though the place was only starting to fill up when we were leaving around 8pm on a Tuesday.

Yvo says: Everything we ate was enjoyable (though I didn’t like the har mee that much), and I would have no problem returning. I might opt to get the cheong fun somewhere else, but all the other Malaysian dishes were delicious – and I really want to try their rendang as well!  I’ll be back.
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Filed Under: Around NYC, Asia, By Name, Cuisine, Flushing, Malaysian, Queens, Restaurants Tagged With: DLS, roti, satay

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Comments

  1. Matt says

    April 23, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    I’ve never heard of or seen Malaysian cheong fun before, but it looks tasty. Hope I can find it somewhere.

    Reply
    • Feisty Foodie says

      April 23, 2012 at 6:56 pm

      I hope I can find it too – or I’m just going to go back to cart food, which wouldn’t be the worst thing 🙂

      Reply
  2. hungry says

    April 23, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    I didn’t know okra was used in Malaysian cooking. I learned something!

    Oh man, you brought back such good memories of those noodles with hoisin, soy sauce, and sesame seeds. It’s been awhile since I’ve eaten something from a Chinatown cart.

    Reply
    • Feisty Foodie says

      April 23, 2012 at 6:57 pm

      I loved those ‘ha mai cheung’ when I was a kid. I still do, but it’s harder for me to get to Chinatown at a reasonable hour to get it – and when I do, there’s so much other food to get too! Yum!!!

      I’m not sure it’s okra, actually, since it’s bigger than any okra I’ve ever seen. On the menu they’re called ladyfingers or something similar, so it might be a very similar vegetable as it tasted about the same too.

      Reply
      • hungry says

        April 24, 2012 at 4:37 pm

        Ah, at first it looked like a long pepper to me.

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        • Feisty Foodie says

          April 24, 2012 at 11:44 pm

          It does! but they called it something else. It tasted like okra to me though, just huge.

          Reply
  3. T.C. says

    April 24, 2012 at 12:15 am

    Prawn Mee/ Udang Mee/ “har mein” is a fav. Even if it’s not too spicy, it better be packed full of seafood flavor. Too bad it wasn’t either.

    Interesting cheung fun dish above. Lotta stuff in it.

    Reply
    • Feisty Foodie says

      April 24, 2012 at 8:05 am

      It might have been… I honestly was so focused on other dishes that I couldn’t really tell you why I wasn’t interested in the har mee. Maybe I was afraid of getting it on me…

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  4. kim says

    April 24, 2012 at 9:29 am

    Hi Yvo, if you like Malay cheong fun (with all those interesting mixed-ins), check out Curry Leaves in Flushing. I tried it once and it was fulfilling and cheap. 🙂

    Like you, I loooove good, silky cheong fun. Especially with all the saucy toppings~

    Reply
    • Feisty Foodie says

      April 24, 2012 at 11:46 pm

      Thanks Kim!!! I’ve heard from my friend whose BF is Malaysian that Curry Leaves is also really good. I definitely have to check it out – hopefully sooner than later! Good to know they have it, though I would have been happy eating the dish with nothing but the cheong fun part… so good!!!

      Reply
      • kim says

        April 25, 2012 at 9:21 am

        I know. I love cheong fun mixed with the sweet, sesame sauce, sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds~

        Glad to reconfirm Curry Leaves for ya. 🙂

        Reply
  5. hungry says

    April 26, 2012 at 4:10 pm

    Just saw this: http://realcheapeats.com/nyc/2012/mai-food-cart-steamed-rice-noodles-with-fried-fish-balls-centre-st-south-of-canal-chinatown-manhattan-nyc/

    Reply
    • Feisty Foodie says

      April 27, 2012 at 10:54 am

      Yum! I had my favorite cart when I was a kid, but they were old when I was a kid (like, grandparent old) so I can’t imagine they still do it. It was outside the old HKS (that burned down, which is when they stopped running the cart I think) on the Fujian side of Chinatown… Allen/Delancey, way over there I think. Sad… their cart had a blue tarp over the back. I loved it!

      Reply

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