Ya-Mahyuddin Al-Jailani Restaurant

Phew, the restaurant name is quite a mouthful. This eatery situated at the end of the stretch of shophouses along Kampong Bahru Road is more a Indian-Muslim prata place, than a restaurant proper. I've long heard about their nice nasi bryani, but never went to try until pretty recently. Twice. First time we had bryani. Second time we had a huge variety and came back with extreme food coma.

First visit was with XP and CW. We all ordered mutton bryani, and a few prata to share. We packed a packet of mutton bryani back for E. We really liked the nasi bryani. It was fragrant, with a generous serving of mutton curry. Their prata were fluffy, and yummy. Although I do like my prata much more crispier on the outside. Maybe because we ordered prata with fillings, and the fillings made the dough a little wetter. I should try the plain ones next time. While the three of us had a comfortable portion lunch, E apparently got a huge huge packet. Considering he's the big eater of the lab, and he was stuffed to the brim by this lunch, I guess he really got a big bag of food.

Two weeks later we returned with a bigger group. We ended up ordering different things: maggi goreng, nasi goreng mutton, mutton murtabak, mutton bryani and chicken bryani. There was an option for either fried or curry chicken for the bryani... interesting... but HY stuck to the norm and ordered curry chicken bryani.

The maggi goreng was simple, but delicious. It came with a beautifully fried sunny side up. I thoroughly enjoyed my mutton nasi goreng, filled with minced mutton and with an ample amount of fat to make it extra yummy, not to mention extra unhealthy. But note it wasn't overly oily, and I wasn't sick in the stomach after finishing it. We liked how their mutton bryani was served with small pieces of mutton, as opposed to a single large piece with bones that many places tend to sell. The killer was the murtabak. We waited quite long for it, and when it arrived, we were stunned by the size of it. My picture doesn't do it justice, but if you can try to imagine the size of the fork and spoon relative to it... Poor XP and CW ordered one each. We had to help them out a little. That resulted in all of us being uber full after lunch. Thankfully they left out one order of prata, or it would have been worse.

Mutton nasi goreng

Mutton bryani

Maggi goreng

Giant mutton murtabak

I think we got so full from this meal that we are sort of reluctant to return for fear of a comatosed afternoon again. But I'm sure we will get over that, and return for more.