Hey, fam. Welcome back.
So a celebrity chef from Singapore...
Invited us to an exclusive preview of her newly launched restaurant...
Here in Walnut Creek, California.
It's like 10 minutes away from our house.
So they're claiming...
The restaurant is a fusion between Singapore, Indonesia, and California.
Like what kind of fusion is that?
But anyway, let's be real.
It's probably gonna be a lot of Malaysian food, right?
Hi. Hi. Welcome.
Heyya. How are you? Good.
Thank you.
Okay, so this place looks really magical.
It looks so "atas" which is like upscale.
I knew it's going to be upscale. I just never realized it's going to be this upscale.
It's really really nice.
I wish I dressed up a bit better.
So they have coffee bar which is called Kopi Bar.
Basically because kopi in Malay is coffee.
But anyway, it's closed.
I'm really really bumped because they have like specialty drinks.
But I talked to the guy and he said I'm gonna hook you up.
Did you tell them to make me something special? Well, it's coffee bar.
But they have teh tarik, I think. No.
Do you want something? Let's go.
Let's go. Let's go check it out. Come on.
Look at that.
Kopi avocado. Right?
Coffee with avocado. Like what?
Look at this, guys.
Kopi avocado.
There he is. The legend himself.
Sorry?
I had to go get an apron.
Oh, thank you so much.
So you're able to make the kopi avocado for me?
Of course.
Thank you.
And I think my wife also probably wants something if possible.
What do you want?
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Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate that.
Let's see if we can catch Nora.
She's so busy. See.
Oh my God. This is amazing.
Thank you so very much.
Oh my gosh. I appreciate it so much.
That man was so sweet.
That man was so sweet, right?
I want to take a picture of the coffee. It's like sipping through, so I was like ugh!
It's actually so pretty. I know. Take a picture.
Oh my gosh!
In my entire life...
Before you drink, make sure you... Swirl? Yeah.
Okay, thank you.
In my entire life, I've loved coffee.
And I've known to love avocado when I moved to America.
Here is the combination of both.
Kopi avocado.
Oh my goodness.
Okay, photos first. For Instagram.
We gotta mix it.
Oh my goodness.
You gonna try it?
I'm gonna take one sip.
I'm allergic to coffee but I can take a little bit.
Kopi avocado. How was it?
Wow!
It's good?
It's so creamy. It's like rich and smooth.
My goodness.
Oh, man.
This is like...
Like a milkshake, almost.
Yes! Like a coffee milkshake.
But it's like really thick avocado that's rich...
It's so rich.
Oh, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much.
But if you have a coffee shop...
You ought to be selling this, man.
This is so good.
So we got our first appetizer. Yes.
It's...
It's rojak buah, but I have a little observation.
It's called rojak buah. Buah means fruit, right?
The only fruit I see is the dragon fruit.
Pineapple.
Oh, I thought... Pineapple, yeah.
Okay, because I thought that was... There's jicama too.
Okay, pineapple.
I think that's pineapple. Is it?
We'll find out. We'll try.
We'll try and let you know.
This is like fancy rojak...
Because rojak buah usually in Malaysia, it's like messy kind of food.
They chunked, mix a bunch of things together. Yeah, this is very clean.
Pineapple.
Cucumber.
It's really good.
The flavor.
It's really... Refreshing. Yeah!
For a summer food, it's very nice.
It has like the peanut sauce. A little bit of spice.
But it's refreshing.
All the foods and the cucumbers are cooling food, so it's very refreshing.
Okay, so next up we have tiger prawns satay.
So they have so many different kinds of satay.
But our waitress recommended this one.
She said they're flown in from Indonesia.
So the tiger prawn satay has...
Is that rice? Rice?
I think it's a rice cake or something.
Oh, yeah. it's a rice cake.
Yeah, she did talk about the sweet sauce.
Okay, I don't like the skin.
Can I take it off? Is that allowed?
You can do whatever you want.
Sweet spicy soy sauce.
It's a nice compliment with the rice cake.
Great. It's a great appetizer.
Okay, next up is a shareable.
In America, shareable is...
So shareable and appetizer, what's the difference?
Maybe a shareable is more kind of like a replacement of an entree.
I don't know.
We got a shareable fried chicken.
Chicken wings.
Is it deboned?
It's deboned. It's stuffed.
They took out the main bone and they stuffed it.
They replaced the bad stuff with even more amazing stuff.
How can you complain?
Is it really no bones?
How is it...
Really? No bones? There's bones.
There's bones?
I thought she said no bones.
Oh, there's bones.
But they stuffed it with more things.
See, look inside here.
See that?
It's so tender. Yeah.
The stuffing inside is... Look. Look at the stuffing.
There's so much inside.
Oh, they did take out the bone.
The main bone.
The drumstick part of the bone was taken out.
The wing part of the bone is there.
Which is the smart way because you want the wing part of the bone actually.
We heard some sounds, so we're going to find what is it.
Okay, can you believe that that was just the appetizers.
Now we're going to our entrees.
First item, let's go with urab.
So we didn't order this but they brought us a smaller portion of it.
It is their veggie salad?
They're like... Yeah, salad. Yeah.
Almost looked like a... Malaysian coleslaw.
It tastes like... shrimp flavour and spice.
Oh, spicy.
Yeah, it's got like a kick to it.
Moving on, what do we got?
We got the ayam percik (roasted chicken)? Ayam percik.
Let's go with cumi-cumi (squid) first.
How about that? Okay.
Okay, this is cumi-cumi (squid).
I don't even know what that means. I've never had it.
But it's the baby version of everything.
Baby octopus, baby squid, baby...
What is this?
Is that eggplant?
Eggplant. Baby eggplant, I think.
Is it eggplant? Or mushroom?
Baby everything, apparently.
I personally don't care for squid and octopus.
Yeah, but it's... You don't?
Oh, yeah. You don't.
But this is also cooked in squid ink sambal.
Sambal is a Malaysian, Indonesian spicy sauce.
But they made it with the squid ink.
Dude, it's so good.
It's amazing.
I don't...
Just try. Which one is the squid? There.
Baby squid.
Awh, it's baby octopus.
Leave it here with rice.
It has a very squid inky taste which is nice.
Very... sea.
You know, very like...
I don't want to say salty, but it's very like sea flavour.
So good. I like it.
How was it? No?
Still no.
It's all right.
Next, we have beef rendang.
It's so fancy.
They got like flowers and everything on top.
And a lot of dishes they have these little pineapples.
Oh, wow!
I can't even like poke into it.
It's like breaking apart which shows how tender it is.
It just melts in your mouth.
My goodness.
So it's the dry kind of rendang.
Interestingly, the rendang flavour is not very intense.
It's a light of a nice flavour.
But the beef is really really tender and soft.
That's the thing.
So I guess that's where the fusion comes into play.
It's really really good.
I feel like Americans would love this, you know.
So it's a good introduction to rendang.
Don't get me wrong.
It's really good.
Okay, the final dish...
You ready for the final one?
Oh, you're going for the rendang? She loves the rendang.
Rendang was the first Malaysian food that I've ever tried.
It'll always be my favourite. Always.
Okay, the final entree we got is ayam percik (roasted chicken).
So roasted chicken is one of my personal favorite foods.
I love buying it from the night market.
We have night market.
They grill it and smell the aroma, it's amazing.
So this one looks like they grilled it...
And they put the chili paste on top.
Chili paste?
Yeah, some sort of chili paste.
And they also give you a side of sambal.
Which if you know me, you know.
And if you know sambal, you know.
Let's dig in.
Wow!
The amount of flavour in this...
It is packed. I can't even like put into words.
They're just...
The aroma, the spice, the tenderness.
This is one of the most complex food I've ever eaten.
Because of like what Rachel said...
All the flavor, sweet, salty, spicy, umami, everything together.
And it's working together. It's not competing.
It's like... harmonious meal.
And it's just the right amount of spice.
I think it's in a slightly spicy palette for a lot of people.
But for me, perfect.
Americans would call this spicy.
I have to say this is my favorite.
This is my favorite. This is so good.
It's really good.
This and rice, I can eat every day.
Thank you very much.
Bye. Thank you so much.
Bye. Thank you.
Okay, now we can finally give our real review.
It was terrible.
Was it?
No!
It was wonderful. It was such a lovely dinner.
Like my stomach is full but my heart is also full.
Really amazing food.
So be really honest, right. I'm not just going to say it's amazing.
So it's not like 100% authentic food, but that's why it's special.
It's not trying to be. No.
It's fusion.
It's innovative.
Innovative.
And honestly, when they say like Singaporean, Indonesian and Californian...
I really see it shine through and through in every dish.
Even the kopi avocado... Like they make it more Indonesian Californian like that. Like how?
The dessert, the beef rendang, the ayam percik (roasted chicken) and all that.
It's different from the original one you get from the streets.
Obviously because they're an upscale restaurant.
But it's fusion so well with like the Californian style.
It's so well made.
Like the attention to detail is chef's kiss.
Yeah, so I recommend the place.
I love that it also has a coffee bar in it.
You'll be seeing us a lot here because we live so close.
So you guys in the area...
Walnut Creek, SanDai. Check it out.
Show them some love and support.
And maybe you'll see us here, all right.
And say hi, okay? Say hi if you see us.
Bye, guys. Bye.