Food Review | Onde Onde Restaurant, Nyonya & Local Delights

Few days back, Wee Sheong and I were invited to do our very first official food review (I did once, at The Frames but that was more like a gathering than a food review, review. If you get what I mean..) at a restaurant called Onde Onde at Desa Park City Waterfront.

The concept of the shop is mainly the 'old school' decorations. Most, if not all of their decorations were bought from places like Malacca. Their wall decorations were not the only thing that caught my attention but the marble tables and wooden stool were too. Makes it look like we were not sitting in a restaurant in the middle of the city, instead somewhere in the state of Malacca or sort. In short, the decorations goes well with the whole concept of the shop - the serving of nyonya and local delights.

There, as you can see from the pictures, the store is very localised, giving you the feel of being 'home'.

Now, on with the food servings that you can get at Onde Onde. First and foremost is their  Prawn Mee (RM9.90). It comes with two different type of noodles - bee hoon and the yellow noodles. The soup itself tasted somewhat salty, to which I was fine with.

Next on, we had their Penang Chee Cheong Fun (RM6.90).

It comes with a flat type of cheong fun on top of the har kou (prawn paste). I've never tried eating chee cheong fan with har kou before (I usually eat them with soy sauce). Didn't know it tasted really good with it.

We then had their signature Penang Asam Laksa (RM9.90), my favourite dish of the night. I liked it to a point that I finished the whole bowl by myself while the others moved on to the other dishes. hehe..

It comes with a visible macekerel fish, and thick laksa sauce. Certainly up to my taste buds although, I was sniffing halfway through it - it happens whenever I eat hot and/or spicy stuff. And although I don't usually eat spicy stuff, this was something that I willingly consume although I was suffering in spiciness. =D

Onde Onde also serves combo menu where you can get two different dishes together with other small side dishes in the menu if you're up to eating two type of main dish at once. The one we tried is Combo B which comes with Fried Rice and Nyonya Curry Laksa (RM15.90).

Besides, they also have their very own Home-made duck egg kaya grilled toast (RM2.80). I don't usually like kaya, but this tasted just fine although, I could not taste much of the duck egg in it (Don't think I know how it tastes either. My taste buds aren't very sharp lol). I think the reason I liked it is because the taste wasn't too strong; just a mild taste of kaya and butter.

As for drinks, we were served with two types of drinks: [Left] Japanese Cucumber Sour Plum Juice (RM5.90) and [Right] Coffee (RM2.80).

You could have visibly taste the Japanese Cucumber in the juice mixed with a mild taste of sour plum. Nothing too sour or strong which hinders the aroma of both ingredient. And as for the coffee, it was freshly brewed.

Being in a nyonya and local cuisine restaurant, naturally, they would have served an assorted kuih muih especially as their name suggests...onde onde (RM3.50)

Pulut Panggang (RM2.90)

Never tried this ever before, but after having my first taste of it, it was good. Spicy though.

Last but not least, it deserts! We had their Sago Gula Malacca (RM4.90). Their gula Malacca originated from Malacca itself so you wouldn't need to go all the way to Malacca to get a taste of it if you're carving for it at any time.

As much as I like the sago gula Malacca, it still would not beat my all time favourite cendol! This time it comes with a touch of durian it. It is none other than Onde Onde's Durian Dessert (RM7.90).

Which I liked like A LOT. I foresee myself making a revisit just for the Penang Asam Laksa and this signature cendol of theirs. The close-to-exact same taste as I've tasted in Malacca before. Been looking around for a cendol like this but I've never found one until this. And since its gula malacca comes from Malacca itself, I could just make my way there (which is very near to where I stay) and satisfy my cravings whenever I have one. heh!

Onde Onde Restaurant can be found at:

GF-03A Ground Floor,

Waterfront @ ParkCity 5

Persiaran Residen,

Desa Park City, 52200

Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 03-6280 7419

Opening Hours: 9am to 10pm daily