Malay, Asian and Western specialties for breaking fast at Melting Pot

THE Melting Pot Café at Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur will be serving an array of Malay, Asian and Western specialties for breaking fast that promises to pamper diners’ culinary senses.

It features a buffet spread that is divided into various food stations, like Noodle On The Spot which offers dishes like prawn mee and lok lok, while Essence of Action tempts diners with helpings of stuffed whole lamb, chicken shawarma, daging panggang, Hainanese chicken rice and ikan percik madu.

Middle- Eastern cuisine: Sous chef Ikram Zulbahrin slicing the stuffed whole lamb for diners

Malay Chef Abbas Ali, who cooks the stuffed whole lamb dish, said it was prepared Middle-Eastern style and stuffed with basmati rice.

“We also roast it with a lot of spices like star anise, cardamom, raisins, cinnamon sticks, coriander powder, cloves, cashew nuts and curry leaves, and pour some kuzi sauce, to make the lamb more fragrant,” he said.

Warm your tummy with sup ekor berempah, bubur lambuk and bubur Ashurah seafood from the Soup Kettle, or sink your teeth into fresh flower crab, green shell mussels and fiery red prawns from the Ice Glow section.

From the deep fryer: Bite into some crispy samosa, popiah goreng, crispy vegetable fritters and prawn tempura at the Melting Pot Café.

Then catch some culinary action at the Teppan Theatre as chefs prepare teppanyaki favourites such as ebi (prawn), sake (salmon) and niku (beef), or indulge in prawn in egg white, chawanmushi and dim sum from the Hot Steamer.

For those who must have rice, serve it with a wide array of dishes from the Let’s Wok the Wok and Induction Hot Food sections that include stir-fried chilli prawn, black pepper crab, fish paste with salted egg yolk, chicken roll with HP sauce, wok-fried baby French beans with spicy conpoy sauce, meti lamb kofta, tulang rawan daun cekor, ikan patin tempoyak, ayam kasturi pedas and daging kurma hijau.

If you have room for more, bite into crispy samosa, popiah goreng, crispy vegetable fritters and prawn tempura at the From the Deep Fryer section, and help yourself to otak-otak daun nipah, assorted satay, grilled prawn with herb and ikan kembong baker at Flavour from the Charbroiler.

Sweet ending: The banana toffee and sago pearl cream desert.

Choose from more than 30 types of desserts that include cakes, pastries and puddings for sweet endings to your gastronomic journey.

There is also tiramisu with almond biscotti, mango bavarios “alfonso”, banana toffee and sago pearl cream, vanilla and cassis panna cotta, vanilla madeleines, green tea financier, nyonya kuih, cream caramel and bubur pulut hitam.

The Ramadan buffet is priced at RM75++ per person and is available from 6.30pm to 10.30pm.

The café is also offering sahur buffet priced at RM48++ per person.

MELTING POT CAFE, Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur, 2 Jalan Sultan Ismail, 50250 Kuala Lumpur. (Tel: 03-2144 2200 ext 2337).

Source : STAR
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