Makan² Cafe

3.5 starsHaven't been visited here for years. No buffet now. Live band every Friday evening.Venue: park at rear or street. A short cut from rear carpark to entrance. Dark and old style. Big TV Screen- broadcasting MTV. Causal setting. Most tables are very big and firm - good for gathering. A little bit packed. Some dishes are pre-cooked and displayed like buffet with 3 big rice cookers. Everyone can access to these easily. --- 7.3/10Service: rather busy. The owner/cashier is nice. Tap water is provided upon request. A set of utensils wrapped by serviettes will be given when food served, but the serviette was not dry. Extra cutlery and seasonings is available on each table. --- 6.9/10Beverage: wide selection. good value. Good portion. Not bland. Hot Teh Horlick / Milo ($4.9) are served in Mug. Sometimes small spoons will not be given for stirring. Teh Tarik with Ginger ($5.2, in mug) are really full of ginger flavour. --- 7.8/10Food: wide selection of Malaysian/ southeastern food but not all are available. Normal portion. Price ok. Very casual presentation.- Murtabak lamb Roti, $13.9: well stuffed with minced lamb, egg and chopped onion. Good portion. Only the sauce was enough for me. --- 7.3/10- Chicken Rice Hainanese Style, $13.9: served with Chili sauce. Good portion of chicken eith bone (albeit not very glossy or silky in texture). Rice and soup was good. Salad was just mainly cucumber and cabbage. --- 6.5/10- Oxtail Soup, $17.9: served with rice good portion of oxtail in the soup. Meat was very tender. Soup was good. --- 7.3/10- Set Rice with 1 dish ($12.9) or 2 dish ($15.9): There are 3 Rice options. Ordered Fish Curry Briyani. Rice was good. Papadum was crispy. Vegetable Pickles were just ok. Dhal was ok. Set rice was not bad except fish curry dish. Fish curry was just only 2 pcs of fish in normal size and 1 okra. But, one almost no meat (bone only, disappointed). It's not like the description of fish curry on menu -boneless. I accept fish containing bones, but inedible fish bone is not ok. Curry sauce wasn't so creamy. Lost the points --- 5/10

Food was absolutely perfect as it always is here and the band was nice but a touch to loud but nice anyways.The only reason it’s not 5 stars is because my food came out 10 minutes before my partners witch I guess isn’t a big deal in a place like this but going for dinner I like to eat with who I’m with.Saying that I’d recommend anyone here who loves Malaysian food it’s top notch !

The bowl of Oxtail Soup $17.90 came out piping hot and the broth was delicious. The generous serve of meat fell easily off the knuckles.Served with rice and sweet soy sauce kindly provided on request.Air con works a treat on a hot day.Roti sets coming out of the kitchen looked good.Extensive menu. Will go back.

Ordered martabak beef, taste good.There's Live Music on Friday Night, start at 8PM.

Had the Pecel Lele, Oxtail Soup and Mee Bandung. Great and pleasant staff plus the food tastes as authentic as in Malaysia & Indonesia.

Friday night, live music free with your sumptuous meal. What more can you ask for. If you're craving for an authentic Malaysian cuisine, it's a great place to sample a pretty good selection of tasty dishes.

Slow service. An okay ambience but very tight seating. Small servings. Low food quality. One of dishes came very late after everyone else on the table had almost finished theirs. And one of our dishes was missing an ingredient, which was later added on by the cook at the table. Credit card surcharge applies.

Absolutely brilliant food and brilliant flavours. I purchased the Biryani Beef Rendang and my partner purchased the Nasi Goreng Ayam. Both had flavours that burst in our mouths. My beef Rendang was ever so slightly dry but it was still one of the best I've had! Definitely will be back again soon!

If you love Malaysian Cuisine, this is as authentic as you get. Malaysian Cuisine is normally spicy (close enough to Indonesian) but you can always cook without the spicy part and still maintain its local flavor. Go for the Satay (Malaysian barbeque at its best) - think of it as a Kebab with dipping Peanut sauce but instead of chunk of meats - the meats are thinly sliced on a bamboo skewer - which you can get at most grocery stores.