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Baby, I Think We’ve Made It Big

Ever heard of the Sanderson Hotel, London? Me neither.

It looks like the sort of thing that might be called “comtemporary luxury with a touch of whimsy” in magazines.

sandersonlobby

sandersonhangingchair

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But all this eclectic modern sophistication is not the main point. The main point, the real kicker, is that – are you ready for it – this hotel has a “Modern Malaysian” restaurant, named “Suka” (Malay for “like”).

The menu lists such items as

PAPAYA & PORK BELLY SALAD
Slow braised and crisped pork belly tossed in chili vinaigrette with papaya, roasted jalapeno and spring onions
£11.00

LOBSTER WONTON MEE
Egg noodles cooked with poached lobster, lobster consommé and lobster wontons
£22.00

PUMPKIN TART TATIN
Spiced butternut squash tart with gula melaka syrup and crystalised ginger ice cream
£7.00

If you say, “So expenseef! Go all the way to London to eat fried rice?” then you are not the intended audience, theirs or mine. And if you (God forbid) say that we are apeing the West and still after all these years enslaving our culture to theirs, then I have nothing more to say to you.

But I’ve now added another entry to the List of Places To Go Before I Die.

How did I come across this, you ask?

I was wandering around here. (The rest of the site may not be work-safe.)

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 9th, 2009 at 1:41 pm and is filed under Guest Blogging, On Being Malaysian, Travel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Baby, I Think We’ve Made It Big”

  1. May 9th, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    gee says:

    PAPAYA & PORK BELLY SALAD
    Slow braised and crisped pork belly tossed in chili vinaigrette with papaya, roasted jalapeno and spring onions

    SOLD!!

  2. May 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    PpFt says:

    While we’re looking at the menu, I have to say I don’t really know what to make of the tart tatin. The description makes me want to go, “Well, which is it – pumpkin or butternut squash??”

  3. May 10th, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    gee says:

    squash is the species and pumpkin is.. genus? idk. but it think they share the same er properties or whatever I mean by properties.

  4. May 11th, 2009 at 1:24 am

    PpFt says:

    Answered my own question: Apparently in Oz, butternut squash is known as “butternut pumpkin”.

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