Sun, 7th Oct 2007

Wow!

Having read about the d'other Office Cafe & Bistro on Rano's site, I was curious to try out their food and to meet Keiko again. We worked together briefly on an event last year.


(Pic taken from Ranoadidas - Keiko and her husband, Yacob).

Although they were selling just takeaways for the Ramadhan period, their staff were very enthusiastic and welcoming, and took time to introduce and recommend all their specialities to us.

With such a variety of cookies, cakes, and savouries, we finally decided on their lontong, mee siam and curry puffs (potato & sardine) for our tea. (Mark loved the puffs - he ate most of them, Wm had the sardine puff and I had half a potato puff). The pastry wasn't greasy at all which was great.

Lontong - Consisted of compressed rice cubes (like ketupat), fried tofu, tempeh, whole egg, potato cake, with sambal and a really spicy minced dried prawns mixture generously dusted all over. The gravy with cabbage, long beans and rice vermicelli was served separately. We heated it up and added the ingredients.

This was lovely, just like something you would eat from a great cook's home, it was beautifully cooked, with just the right amout of spice. I could certainly have this again.

Pic taken from Ranoadidas again, with thanks to Rano.



My photo which does no justice to the dish :D



Mee Siam - Consisted of meehoon, fried tofu cubes, taugeh, whole egg, sambal & limes. Again, lovely; to begin with, we found the gravy slightly sweet but adding a bit of extra lime juice made this perfect. Again, it tasted 'lovingly home-made', a rare find in restaurants nowadays.



D'Other Office Cafe & Bistro, No. 11 & 12, Ground Floor
Blk B, Hassanin Complex, Spg 42, Jalan Muara
Kg Delima Satu BB 4713
Tel: 673 2342498
email: d.otheroffice@gmail.com

(It is located at the end of the HSBC block at the Delima area).

Great value for money at $10 for all. And thank you, Keiko, for the complimentary cendol, so icy cold and refreshing.


The food is delicious, if you've not tried it, go. Today. Right now.