My new favourite place in Abu Dhabi

Was told of this new cafe, Cafe Arabia in Abu Dhabi - absolutely lovely, pretty and inexpensive yummy food! Now I have somewhere to go to chill and read magazines over a cuppa!

10 course Malaysian Meal

Nopes that's not in Malaysia - but in the UAE, yippee for Reem Cafe!

A taste of Malaysia 2

OK how good does this look...I went back to the Malaysian construction cafeteria for lunch with a friend today and yum!! My friend took the pics below..I should start taking pics of the other fabulous ethnic food there is here - Indian and Lebanese in particular is fab! What's sad is that most expats only eat in fancy restaurants in hotels where a meal costs AUD50pp without drinks, while there is this amazing array of delicious and cheap food from all over the world that costs less than AUD10pp with drinks!

A taste of Malaysia

Check that picture out. Does it not look like it was taken in a typical restaurant in Malaysia?

And it felt like Malaysia. Smelt of home. Tasted like mum's cooking. So perfect! Just that it was not in Malaysia but in Abu Dhabi! Yay! A friend brought me to this place last night. It's hidden on a construction site on an island whose first building will be open only in July. Trust Malaysians to ensure they have great food!

So the story is the master developers of Reem Island is Malaysian. Sadly when they came, there was no Malaysian food to be found, so they decided to open a cafeteria for all their workers that will provide a taste of home. Getting there involved driving through security, through barely tarred roads to the middle of this island, where this is a temporary office block housing this cafeteria. All the staff are chinese, speak cantonese and when I was there last night, the other customers were Malaysian Chinese construction guys. Very cool indeed, plus it was cheap! They even sell hokkien mee, ying yong, tai chow, dim sum, egg tarts, the works.

Now I just need to talk to the guys to find out where they buy their produce as the supermarkets here do not stock Chinese stuff well. I can't even buy decent tofu or chinese greens, but they served me yummy home style tofu and kai lan with ham yee yesterday! Well at least it's super close to where I live now, only a 15 min drive, so I think I'll be paying it a few visits for sure!