Cahaya Murni

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Anyway! Having started our internship, I rarely get to see my beloved poly friends often! Headed down to Far East to meet everyone in the evening for dinner together. My friend mentioned going to Cahaya, at FEP. I'm not sure how she knew of the place actually. As for me, I've eaten there a fair bit.

When we arrived, the shop person was a tad overzealous in ushering us in. He was like "don't just stand there, blah blah blah, come sit down". Please note that he didn't actually said blah blah blah. I just forgot what he said :D Either way, I remembered thinking that it was a little bit rude for him to say that. Ah well.

Sat down and was given the menu promptly. As usual, among friends, it takes everyone ages to decide. The shop person kept coming twice and thrice to take our orders but we still weren't ready. Haha! At least they were attentive.

When we were finally ready to order, the person came promptly, which is a plus point! He tried to sell us his tom yam soup, which my friend got in the end. (Will continue about this below).

The picture above is my wantan mee! I ordered dry, and I'm not sure if their dry is just...wet, or the person misheard me. Didn't quite like the wantan though, and the mee was in clumps. Still, it was about 3bux, so, it fits the price!

Ohhhhhhhhhh. This was the tom yam soup. My friend wanted the ramen one.. But erm, you can all see that it looks like maggi right? Everyone else said the soup was spicy, but I found it meh.

Hotplate rice, crabmeat. The gravy was tomato-ey, and well, if you like tomato based gravy, you'd love it. If not, then, meh.

Claypot noodles, chicken. The gravy was like more to kicap kind of taste.. Didn't really like it.

 I think... This is dry hor fun, black. Didn't taste this, but my friend who ate this had no complaints.

U-Tiao. If this were to taste bad, then the restaurant must have serious problems. Would have wanted more mayo though! This is the $3 plate.

Sweet and sour chicken. This is the $8 plate, which is the least amount. I must say, for an $8 plate, the quantity of the chicken was VERY LITTLE. Was rather shocked at the quantity. I guess it looks a lot in the picture, but do remember that this is a close up.

Another bone to pick with was the ice milo my friend ordered. When it came, the colour was like the colour of.......... very very milky tea. The milo was WAY diluted. Come on lah, the color is so obvious, and you serve it, what does that say about your honesty as a  food server? I went to return it for my friend, and when it came back, it was LESS diluted, but STILL diluted. Sigh.

Wow, when I started this post, I had no idea how bad the food was that evening. But we were all so ravenous that everything tasted good, and all so happy to see each other that nothing felt bad that evening :)

I used to come to this place to eat quite often. Hopefully that evening was just an off day, and not the fact that their standard has seriously dropped.

Name: Cahaya Murni

Location: Far East Plaza, Level 5