This is one beautiful restaurant, especially after sunset, filled with crackerjack flourishes that benefit from shadowy lighting.
Niu Taste, opened at St Mary Place this past month by the team behind Black Market, calls itself a noodle & grill bar, specializing in Vietnamese, Taiwanese & Japanese recipes. No pork is served here.
The high-profile choices on the menu: Niu Taste's take on Taiwanese red-braised beef noodles ...
... plus 'pho bo,' Vietnamese flat rice noodles with beef balls, tenderloin, shank, tendon & stomach.
Each hearty serving with everything thrown in costs RM28+. Could be punchier in flavor though.
Prefer porridge? Niu Taste has a fish-flooded version of that too, mixed with tiger grouper meat, stomach & liver that might be an acquired taste (RM28+).
For plain protein, the tender-tasty lamb loin saddle with garlic mustard provides pure pleasure. RM16+ for two slices.
Eel liver? Yep, find it here: Skewers of grilled unagi liver teriyaki (RM18+). A very interesting option, slightly more concentrated in flavor than eel flesh.
Century egg with tofu (RM8). Elegant simplicity.
Sake, wine, whisky & beer are all available.
Niu Taste @ St Mary Place
A-04, Ground Floor, St Mary Place, Jalan Tengah, Kuala Lumpur.
Mon-Sun, 11am-11pm. Tel: 03-2856-9866
The latest edition of Eat Drink KL: 100 Favorites for January-March 2014 is now available online, featuring 100 pretty nice eateries, including more than 20 new entries for this quarter. The eBook can be read & downloaded for free, convenient reading on computers, tablets & smartphones.
Please click here: http://eatdrinkkl.publ.com/Eat-Drink-KL-100-Favorites-Jan-March-2014 (This link expires April 1, 2014; see blog entries after that date for new link).
Beginning late January, a free email newsletter will be sent out every Monday to subscribers, highlighting new restaurant openings (even before they're featured on this blog), F&B promotions & other tasty tidbits for the Klang Valley.
Please consider subscribing to Eat Drink KL Weekly via this following link:
Please consider subscribing to Eat Drink KL Weekly via this following link:
Thanks very much; subscriptions are appreciated.