Valentine’s Day was spent with some girlfriends tucking into some good food at Bumbu. I’m so lucky to have friends who have such good taste in food and also who aren’t afraid to eat!
My friend’s choice of restaurant was a cosy place along Kandahar Street (the street parallel to Arab Street). This restaurant serving Thai-Indonesia cuisine is a little gem of a place. It’s one of the shophouses along that street.
The place is decorated with wooden panels and wooden screens to separate the tables and offer some privacy. The restaurant is a small one and only seats about 40-50 people in total on both floors.
For starters, we had the Bumbu Salad, a salad made up of century egg, onions, fried shallots, and some lime juice. I’m normally not a fan of century egg, but this dish was really tasty!
We then had the following dishes for mains:
Stuffed eggplant with curry sauce
– big slices of eggplant laid flat, stuffed with a prawn and some fish paste and sits on curry sauce
Deep-fried baby squid
– similar to the slightly sweet deep-fried squids you get in Chinese seafood restaurants, but this one tasted crispier and better than many of the ones I had in those restaurants.
Chinchalok chicken
– stir-fried diced chicken in a savoury sauce
Fried assam prawns
– deep-fried prawns with a sweetish-sourish coating over it
For desserts, I had the steamed custard pumpkin which was served warm. It was nice and not too sweet/heavy on the stomach. Another friend had the chendol…think that was only okay ‘cos she didn’t rave about it. The others just had coffee and a serving of fresh coconut juice.
Overall, the food was good and so was the service. Expect to spend about $25 per person.
Bumbu Restaurant
44 Kandahar Street
Singapore 198897
Tel: 6392 8628
(Closed on Mondays)