Warung Lele Restaurant

The Professor, Mr Harvest-The-Crops and I went out for lunch at Warung Lele. The Professor loves the satay here. Unfortunately, by the time we arrived for lunch at 1.10pm, many of their popular dishes had run out, like the curry chicken (ayam kalio) and fried beancurd with egg (tahu telor). Ah well, we learnt that day that you really need to get to the restaurant before 12.50pm for lunch.

We started off with Sate Ayam ($7.50 for 6 sticks), Jakarta skewered marinated chicken served with homemade peanut sauce. This was very good, thick chunky pieces of juicy chicken meat that was tender, and coated with a sticky sweet sauce that was caramelised and smoky from the grill. 


The Ayam Bakar Bumbu Santan ($7.50) cilandak homemade marinated BBQ chicken, drenched in a thick, paste-like sambal, was another great dish. Chicken was char-grilled so it had that smoky texture and flavour, but retained its juices.


The Sayur Lodeh ($7) with cabbage, long beans, carrot, firm beancurd and young jackfruit in a coconut gravy was rich, creamy and full-bodied. Perfect for ladling oodles of it onto steaming hot white rice.


No meal is complete with The Professor without an order of red meat, so we ordered the Sapi Lapis Surabaya ($8), Jawa Timur style sliced dry beef rendang. This was just alright, not as fork-tender as I'd like, and a little dry on the inside. But the chili gravy was fantastic.


The Onde Onde ($2) homemade pandan ball with gula melaka filling and grated coconut flakes was an aromatic, chewy ball that exploded with the smoky and intensely sweet flavours of gula melaka. I'm not a fan of coconut or kuehs, but this was fantastic.


The Emping ($1) Belinjo nut crackers were great for whetting our appetites.


When combined with Sambal Belacan, the crackers were brilliant as a pre-meal appetizer. 



Warung Lele Restaurant Pte Ltd
8 Shenton Way
#01-16 & #01-19
Tel: 6423 1552
Open Mondays to Saturdays from 11.30am to 2.30pm and from 6pm to 10pm
Closed on Sun and Public Holidays
Website:warunglele.com

Comments

Anonymous said…
The Prof and Mr Harvest had a gas factory going in that afternoon, after the meal......
16.11.10
Bern said…
For the benefit of my readers: Both The Professor and Mr Harvest-The-Crops regularly pass gas, independent of the ingestion of spicy rich food.
16.11.10
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