I'm not exactly sure if restaurants in India will name after "corner" or not, or if this is a specialty of Malaysia Indian restaurants trademark. Our Indian restaurants are known to call themselves a corner.
As much as it's name matches with the shop's location, as if every Indian shop is a corner shop. Even if they're not a corner shop, they tend to setup a restaurant by the corner. We will come back to this part later, why is it at the corner.
Let's come back to the good food. I haven't been to this restaurant before. It was the home minister's idea to dine in after sending the kids to school. I instantly like the fried noodle as it wasn't dry, neither too oily. Not many of those Indian shop knows how to control the amount of cooking oil goes into their fried noodles.
I would also like to try their nasi lemak. it's a sort of traditional coconut milk steamed rice with sambal, roast peanut and fried anchovies. The moment wifey open the package, I can smell the coconut fragrant explode from the banana leaf packaging. I'm not going to risk my experience by over indulging after the huge plate of fried noodle.
The traditional pull tea is one of the significant beverages of all Malaysian Indian restaurants, we called it teh tarik, by dripping the milk tea from one mug to another to create the foamy texture. One of the reason is the foamy texture make it even smoother and creamier, the other is so make it less hot, customer can drink faster and order another one 😂
Back to the topic, why do they called corner? This is the reason. We Malaysian grow up with drinking tea smoking cigarettes whilst enjoying the good view at the corner. Despite government had put a huge smoking ban, but it just can't stop us from enjoying good view, drink tea, and eat coconut steam rice.
I've been to Steven Corner, Salim Corner, Lawrence Corner, and so far the Raja's Corner is makes one of the best pull tea, and I really enjoy the fried noodle. I will be coming back to explore their chapati, dohsai and many other good food in the future.