Santai @ TTDI

This is a place i go to frequently. It's a restaurant/cafe which serves malay style cooking. I like it mostly for the cooling ambience, reasonable price and of course good freshly cooked food. The menu consists of mostly common malay dishes served with rice such as daging masak merah, ayam paprik, kailan ikan masin, telur dadar....and so on. They also have several types of fried rice and noodles. On weekdays, at every 3.00pm they start bringing out assorted local kuihs like currypuffs, cekodok, cucur undang, cucur keria, bubur kacang and so on. These sell like hot cakes as it only takes about 1-2 hours for all of that to disappear. I like the sardine currypuff the best. :) Oh and their drinks are also well done individually when ordered, no premixes. I'm quite particular with this whereby i don't like the idea of instant or premix drinks. And i think it shows when you realise most or almost all of their customers do not order can drinks here. Their simple teh o ais limau taste good with no traces of seeds in it (which is what i usually have). Other drinks available includes fresh fruit juices, air bandung soda and the normal coffee and tea range.

Last weekend Z and I popped by to have a quick meal and i finally remembered to snap some pictures.

This is my nasi goreng santai. It's actually their nasi goreng kampung...original malay style. Not the usual thai nasi goreng kampung where the rice is white, fried with anchovies and kangkung. This one is fried with chillis, chicken meat, sayur sawi and then sprinkled on top with crunchy anchovies. And the difference between n.g. kampung and n.g santai is that you get few pieces of keropok and a fried egg to accompany the rice. This is one of my favourites.


Z had nasi goreng ikan masin. I like this one as well. The rice is fried with a little kicap so it's brownish, chicken meat and sayur sawi + kobes. Hehehe...kobes.....ok so annnyways the ikan masin is not fried together with the rice. Instead, a couple pieces of the ikan masin is placed on top of the rice like a garnish. Totally not spicey, good for those who can't take chillis. It does not come with keropok so don't be fooled by the picture. Z just took some of mine and that's his hand masuk dalam frame gambar because tak sabar nak makan...

Santai has opened a couple of branches at Tesco outlets. If i'm not mistaken at Tesco Mutiara Damansara and Puchong. But i think the best would still be this outlet they started with in Taman Tun, located at the shoplots same row as the Perodua showroom and behind KFC.