Neighbourhood mamak store serving mozzarella naans with subsequent stage cheese pulls

One may imagine that the one option to discover one of the best of one of the best is to go looking far and extensive, to traverse sandy dunes and climb mountains. However typically, the factor you’ve been searching for has been proper underneath your nostril all alongside. That is the case for Restoran Rejab, a pleasant neighbourhood mamak store in Puchong.

When evening falls, Restoran Rejab slowly fills itself with households and teams of mates searching for a straightforward, no-brainer meal. Some need an easy dinner, many simply desire a tasty snack to accompany their gossip-laden conversations.

Wanting from the surface, the restaurant appears to be like like all mamak store you’d discover. From an inside ornament standpoint, the one distinctive trait is its greenness, and never within the environmental means. It fairly actually is a vivid lime inexperienced— the tables, the chairs, the indicators, solely the ground and wall are exempt from this borderline fluorescent color. 

To accommodate the massive dinner crowd, they arrange further seating within the alleyway proper subsequent to the store, which is at all times an excellent indication of a well-loved mamak retailer.

What I attempted at Restoran Rejab

Whereas the restaurant serves all of the mamak necessities like Maggi goreng, roti telur, and nasi goreng kampung, the star of the present is one thing you may not anticipate. Sure, many locations have cheese naan, however Restoran Rejab takes it up a notch with their Mozzarella Cheese Naan (RM9).  

There’s no different option to describe the visuals of this naan aside from it appeared like a delicate pillow. It was thick, or as Technology Z say, thicc. So thick, in reality, it resembled a hand-tossed pizza crust. The bread had some good charring, and the dish got here with a wealthy garlic sauce, dal, and raita. It got here piping scorching, which meant the mozzarella was nonetheless good and gooey on the within. 

Lastly, it was time to see if this naan would cross the cheese pull take a look at.

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Accompanied by a refrain of shocked “wow”s, the cheese stretched longer than anticipated; it was extraordinarily satisfying. Clearly, the chef behind this was nothing wanting beneficiant when it got here to the filling, a lot in order that this explicit naan shouldn’t even be thought-about as a kind of flatbread.

This dish was every little thing you might ever need from a cheese naan— loaded with milky and barely tangy mozzarella and completely cooked bread. Even with out the cheese, the bread was fluffy and pleasant. 

Nonetheless, some might discover the bread to be too thick in some areas. I personally assume that the bread needed to be of that density to take care of the construction of the naan (I’m positive you wouldn’t need it to collapse earlier than you even get to take a chew), and to steadiness out the sheer quantity of cheese.

The garlic sauce might not appear like a lot, nevertheless it added one other depth of flavour to the dish. Naan or tandoori, no matter I dipped into the creamy sauce immediately turned 10 instances extra tasty. 

The Rooster Tandoori (RM9) was equally as spectacular because the mozzarella naan. Even when alone, I may inform that it was completely marinated. It was very flavourful, with a scrumptious smokiness that may very well be tasted all through, and the meat itself was juicy and well-cooked. 

And the mix of the cheese naan, tandoori, and garlic sauce? Unbelievable. Wonderful. Present stopping. 

Last ideas

Should you’ve spent your complete life being disillusioned by the cheese naans of the world, Restoran Rejab is certainly value testing. This naan was made with cheese lovers in thoughts, and I can safely say that you simply received’t be disillusioned. 

Admittedly, the mozzarella naan may make you are feeling jelak because of the quantity of cheese used. So, I recommend going with a good friend and ordering 2 naans, certainly one of which ought to be a unique flavour like garlic or butter. That means, you possibly can share and respect the cheesiness with out feeling such as you’re going to blow up. 

Anticipated injury: RM11 – RM20 per pax

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