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TARBUSH - ARAB FOOD

Jan 11, 2009
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Arabic food; A.M Tarbush di Jalan Sultan Yahya, Kota Bharu.

I saw the signage for the food outlet for quite sometimes but only managed to get a taste of it last Friday night, after sending off my second daughter on the bus to UTP.

OMG... it was so delicous. We had a taste of Nasi Mendi with mutton. it was served with salad, curry-like gravy and a bowl of saucy olive oil condiment. My wife said it reminded her of the Nasi Pillau that we had regularly at Medina al Munawwarah after subuh prayer.. The shop keeper said Nasi Mendi is only available on Friday and Saturday. For the rest of the week, the menu is Nasi Bukhari. BTW the theme of the shop is `Arabic Food, Malaysian Style'.

We also had Chicken Arabi with arab bread and 'kabbab' like food called by a name that beset my memory... nowadays memory keep failing me on frustratingly more frequent interval; as a sign of my belated adolescence. I find that I had to rely on Thesaurus.com with more frequency.. Any 'petua' to prolong the elasticity of mental alacrity, anyone???

Back to the food.... I had a Pudina Tea to compliment the food... perfect combination. `Sky juice' was not on the menu... hahahah... I knew of this `Sky Juice' when a friend `belanja' me to Tarbush at Ampang. There the food on higher grandeur scale with a plate of Shish Kebab costing more than Rm12. The setting was grander with the curving arabic 'teko' and overall setting to highlight the Arabic atmosphere of inner harem... just a tad more exagerated...

My dinner at Tarbush Kota Bharu costed me only Rm34 ... for a 5 member family (2 already at asrama). That is definitely ok for such a treat.. Definitely, God Willing we will be paying another visit to this food outlet. Already my mouth is watering at the memory of it...

Juadah Berbuka

Sep 4, 2008
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So far kami berbuka dirumah sahaja semenjak Ramadhan ini. Sebenarnya 'I dread' kalau ada invitation berbuka kat mana2 kerana kepuasan berbuka hanya di perolehi di rumahku syurgaku. There's nothing like home bila masa berbuka atau bersahur.

Di sini adalah sampel juadah berbuka yang 'ala kadar' tapi memuaakan. Amat tepat sekali; orang yang berpuasa itu diberikan 2 kenikmatan; kenikmatan di akhirat dan kenikmatan berbuka puasa. Di sini ada kurma untuk pemula berbuka. Lepas itu disusuli makanan manis2; ondeh-ondeh (phew no ondeh can beat ondeh2 home made my wife) yang panas-panas di uli dalam kelapa muda parut. Kalau kat kedai, kualiti kelapa parutnya adalah kurang memuaskan kerana selalunya sedikit keras dan kurang lemak akibat di perah santannya dahulu. Selepas mak ondeh ada lagi sira pisang untuk tambahkan gula dalam darah bagi kami pengidap diabetes tapi dek keenakan berbuka, 2-3 ketul tu habis juga.

Untuk menu utama ada Gulai ikan masak lemak ala2 Kelantan. Saya dibesakan dengan gulai jenis nih menyebabkan paras cholesterol yang mencapai tahap war zone dan sukar diturunkan. Tapi alhamdulillah lagi so far. Ada pengesyoran dari Jab Kesihatan untuk gantikan santan dengan susu but I dont quite like the after effect of taste.

Selain tuh ada daging masak kicap, ikan goreng, ulam dan tidak ketinggalan sos bilis aka budu. Satu lagi juadah wajib tidak ada semalam kerana sudah ada pada malam semalam; cendul. After satisfying with the hard stuff a mangkuk of cendul samada cendul gula atau cendul bandung adalah amat-amat satisfying. To end it all a cup of home made hot tea make life really worth living many times over. Wassalam....