Best Pilah In Eye-Turk

Yesterday was THE day simply because it was the last day of the week before weekend comes and also the last hope for me to receive my shipment. Unfortunately, the shipment didnt come. Somehow we were told yesterday that the lady boss who authorised the release of the shipments will only sign documents on Monday and Wednesday. But she decided not to sign ours. So i am without my shipment. Since i have packed most of my clothes to ship them here hence my wardrobe in KL is almost empty. Initially i thought of bringing some back to KL this Sunday but ...sigh......

So KC decided to cheer me up by bringing me to have the best Pilah in Eye-Turk.

And we went to this restaurant called Restaurant Singapour which is operating in one of the villas along a street and since the decorations are so modest, we would have missed it if not being introduced to look for it.

The restaurant is small with 8 tables. The decorations were simple but cozy with photos of the owners hanging on the walls and also some mexican feel table cloth. And it is equipped with an open-kitchen concept where we can look at how the food is prepared. Since we were the first customers to order, the lady boss quickly went into the kitchen to prepare us with entrees.

A pot clock..cool!

Olives and chilies to be eaten with bread

Salad in vinegar sauce. This was very yummy.

After the lady boss finished with her portion, it was the work of the chef aka the boss of the restaurant. The chef is a friendly 60 years old Algerian with a warm and friendly smile. And he was in the kitchen chopping, cooking, tasting and doing his wonders. Then he decided to come to us and have a little chit chat while waiting for the rice to boil.

Though he spoke little English and we spoke little French, somehow we managed to know a little of his live. Apparently in the 1970s he was working with the Algeria Oil Company in a ship. First he was sent to Vietnam and because of the Vietnam war with the Americans, he with his colleagues were then transferred to Singapore. And the was there for 5 years. He loved that time so much that he decided to come back to Algeria and opened a restaurant under the same name. When he knew that we were from Malaysia, he was rather excited because he had been to Malaysia as well. He even mentioned about how us Malaysian are like the Algerians in terms of praying 5 times a day. And after Singapore, he had a brief stay in Malaysia, then back to Vietnam then back to Algeria. And he has been operating this restaurant for 10 years. We wanted to ask more but i guess the limitation of languages finally hit us. At the end knowing that we could not communicate anymore, he gave out a heartily laugh and went back to the kitchen to bring us the best Pilah in Eye-Turk.

Pilah is actually seafood with rice cooked with tomato paste, chillies paste and seasoned with lemon. The seafood includes shrimps, fish, ca-lama and chicken meat. Verdict? It was really delicious compared to those i had tried. Satisfying!