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D'Fortune, Bandar Menjalara |
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Friday, 01 July 2005 |
Bandar Menjalara is usually a happening place for seafood & steamboat. Every seafood restaurant there seems to be packed. But we decided to have western this time we were there and based on Yoke Sim's recommendation, we made our way to D'Fortune.
Like most of the other places in the area, D'Fortune was filled to the brim as well.
It took a bit but we were finally seated at a table inside and it was interesting that rather than serve peanuts as appetizers, they served customers with fortune cookies. Imported from England, no less.
 Where drinks are concerned, most people seemed to order the fruit juices. Stick to that as their iced tea is bad. Generally their drinks are too diluted, even their fruit juices. I asked for my Charbroiled Rib Eye Steak (RM22.50) to be medium rare. What I got was rather too well done. Not medium rare at all. Such is the state of Malaysian cooking that the chef often feels that he has to overcook the meat. If I want meat that well done, I might as well order a Ramly burger. But to their credit, the brown sauce was not bad. It's just unfortunate that they murdered my slab of meat.
The meat of the Charbroiled Black Pepper T-Bone Steak (RM23.50) was more stringy than the rib eye but it was certainly a huge
piece of meat. If there was an award for the Value dish of the night,
this would be it.
The tender grilled lam chop (RM14.50) with black pepper sauce was
somewhat lacking. Perhaps the sauce overpowered the taste of the meat
but something was amiss. It took awhile but my wife finally put it down
to the absence of mint sauce.
While the sauce of the
Spaghetti Cabonara (RM8.50) is not as creamy as I may like it, it had an
interesting bled of herbs & spices in the sauce and they put a
generous amount of parmesan cheese on it. So much in fact that you
could smell it. My daughter rated it better than the one she had at The
Rib Shop.
The melted cheese & sausage roll (RM8.50) is a sausage & cheese
wrapped inside a spring roll and served with a very nice salsa sauce. A
simple dish but clearly one of the pleasant surprise of the night. I
would even declare it the winner.
RM106.58 for all 6 dishes. I didn't review the chicken chop. Not too bad. Decent food, decent prices.
D'Fortune is located at
27 & 29, Jalan 3/62A
Pusat Bandar Menjalara
52100 Kepong
Tel: 03-6272 6202
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