JASON FOOD REVIEW

Bantai

Kuala Lumpur

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Jason's verdict

7.9out of 10
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The verdict

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Jason gives the RM90 Ramadan set a solid 7.9, finding the tom yum the standout with strong sour-salty flavour. Good fried chicken and kangkong belacan, but the grouper in the tom yum had a poor texture and the sotong was overcooked.

Highlights

  • Price: RM90 Ramadan set, seafood tom yum option adds RM5
  • Taste: Strong sour-salty tom yum, crisp fried chicken, balanced kangkong belacan
  • Ambiance: Not halal certified but Muslim friendly with halal-prepared ingredients
  • Other: Bandung syrup refillable three times, one jar fills about 16 cups

Dishes tried

  • Ayam goreng

    properly crisp skin, slight herbs, good standard fried chicken

    Score 7.5 out of 10
  • Telur dadar

    standard omelette, slightly crispier

  • Telur dadar tolodada

    huge size, squirts of fried oil, hoped for something different

  • Kangkong belacan

    salty garlicky balanced sauce, but not fresh off the wok

    Score 7.1 out of 10
  • Traditional tom yum

    strong sour salty first sip, creamy and kaw, sotong overcooked

    Score 7.3 out of 10
  • Kurma

    pasty like red bean paste, not overly sweet

  • Bandung syrup

    refillable three times, one jar fills about four cups

Full transcript489 words

Brother, brother, brother, what do you do for a living? How's the end of your business? What do you want to know? You just answer your video, you'll get a lot of views man. I eat for a living? Can you show me how you eat? Okay, come. It's called Bantai and Publica, not halal certified but Muslim friendly. They said all ingredients are prepared halal. I wanna see if their Ramadan set promo for RM90 is worth it or not. And we're starting with the kurma. Oh, and the texture is how I go find it, it's very... Christian! Pasty, like red bean paste, not overly sweet. Bandung syrup, you can refill it three times. One jar can fill up about four cups. Times that is 16 cups, that's a lot. The kurma and this one really is not too sweet. Other than that, biasa. I'm hoping this one is more milky. Hard yay fried chicken, fried test. Have you tried this now right? Dipping it in with the chilli sauce. KFC chilli sauce. The chicken skin is properly crisp. Slight herbs taste but hard to tell. A lot of it is the deep fried oil. Good standard fried hard yay chicken. 7.5 standard omelette. Slightly crispier. Tolodada is something we almost always order in a mama. And the size is four to five times more. When you crunch in, squirts of the fried oil is going to be the taste. I was hoping this would be a little bit different. 7.1 quarter spinach aka kangkong with belacan. Salty, garlicky and chili spice. Quite balanced. The biggest thing about kangkong belacan is when it is fresh off the wok. Very heaty. The stock of the kangkong right? It's crispy when that's when for me a kangkong belacan is at the best state. But this one is not. One thing I really like about this one is the sauce. Using together very well with the water spinach. The 7.3 traditional tom yum. I really like a tom yum when upon the first sip you get a strong sour salty flavor in your mouth. This is like tuk-tuk level eh. Somehow when it's creamy, that's good. And the tom yum flavor also kaw eh. Okay there are portions ah. Three of these prawns. I think this is grouper feed. About six of these pieces. Sotong slightly overcooked. It's harder than what I usually like. Why are you laughing? Huh? That prawn looks fresh. This is the chewy, chewy type of prawn. The grouper fish is something I wouldn't pick next time. So the texture you get ah. It's very meshy-meshy as if they fried it. And then you put it in a soup especially when it sits there a long time. Not a good texture. I hope bantai will put just the prawn and sotong option but they increase the portion for the prawn and the sotong. Seven point nine.

7.9/10

RM90-95 · Traditional tom yum

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