Secret Garden plays host to private functions at night, but during the daylight hours, it's an idyllic restaurant that whips up lip-smacking lunches and tasty teatime treats.
Customers can choose between indoor or alfresco seating; we love our air-conditioning, so no prizes for guessing which one we selected.
Salad of plump, juicy lychee with peanuts, lime and vinaigrette dressing. A gigantic portion that could satisfy four people. Wonderfully refreshing for a muggy afternoon.
Soy sauce chicken with egg and tofu. Tasted comfortingly wholesome and home-cooked, with a fiery sambal belacan that would please any red-blooded Malaccan.
Slow-cooked duck pasta with orange sauce. A sweet-&-sour concoction with Asian flavours.
Steaming hot bubur sago and traditional local cake to round off a tasty meal.
Secret Garden,
16, Lorong Yap Kwan Seng.
Tel: 2166-7111
Oh my! The Soy sauce chicken with egg and tofu got be salivating. Never heard of this place though. What's it next to?
ReplyDeleteqwazymonkey: yeah, they specialize in all those yummy family recipes, with lots of soups and stews! it's next to that open-air car park that faces marketplace...
ReplyDeletewill u be my secret date at the secret garden on a secret date at a secret time.. :P
ReplyDeleteWhat a find! and i love their name "Secret Garden" sounds very mysterious- wonder how their garden looks like?
ReplyDeleteciki: hush, it wouldn't be a secret if everyone knows! :D
ReplyDeleteaugustdiners: the garden is kinda simple, with white furnishing and a canopy. but yeah, secret garden reminds me of that bruce springsteen song from jerry maguire =)
The duck pasta got me! And gd sambal u say? tis is a must try!
ReplyDeletetng: ooh, be warned that the set lunches change every few days, so some of these items might not be available anymore. the lychee salad is on the permanent menu though...
ReplyDeleteHey, it's quite near my office! How come never seen before... must be quite secret lah this garden...
ReplyDeleteAnd yay for Malaccan-approved sambal belacan! :D
lfb: ya, it's easy to drive by this place and think it's just a house/private residence. especially if u're distracted by thoughts of romance and red lanterns :P
ReplyDeleteEh, another one of these places. That day someone wrote on Rumahku, also more or less in the same vein.
ReplyDeletej2kfm: oh ya, this place is sliiiightly more upscale than rumahku, partly due to its location. but they're all nice places, very cozy and welcoming...
ReplyDeleteWhat's a red blooded Malaccan? Have I met one before?
ReplyDeletelemongrass: if you prick us, do we not bleeeeed?!
ReplyDeletewow this place looks comfy and I'm actually ogling at the lychee salad...
ReplyDeleteeiling: if u're ever in the city for lunch on weekdays, it's a good place to drop by and escape the crowds =)
ReplyDeleteHaha, I can't help but be distracted by thoughts of romance and red lanterns... It's in my mushy mushy nature. :P
ReplyDeleteWhere is your office, bro? We could do lunch some day! :)
P.S. I still haven't found time to watch the Criterion Edition of In the Mood for Love --- sacrilege, I know!
ReplyDeleteO please forgive me... *sings bryan adams-style* :P
lfb: lunch sounds good, but dinner is even better! but wait, let me reply on your blog, so you won't need to refer back to this entry...
ReplyDeleteHaha... I came back to this entry anyway. :P
ReplyDeletelfb: move along, move along, nothing to see here =)
ReplyDeleteBah, hamsupbug. :P
ReplyDeletelfb: grrrr, this is my blog, so i gotta have the last word in every entry :P
ReplyDeleteOf course, you do. Oh. Wait. Oops. ;)
ReplyDeleteP.S. You can have the next one. Promise I won't comment again, after you. :P
ReplyDeletelfb: yay! :D and my last word is: "ogopogo."
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