Sahara Tent

In my quest to look for the best middle eastern cuisine in Malaysia, I landed myself at Sahara Tent for iftar. Sahara Tent is located at Fortuna Hotel in the Bukit Bintang area. Hotel fortuna is located at 87, Jln Berangan, Off Jln Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur. If you are coming from JW Marriot/KL Plaza, at the trafficlight turn right towards Jalan Sultan Ismail. You will pass McDonalds and seven eleven and you will see RHB Bank at the end. Immediately after that turn left to a narrow road, Hotel Fortuna should be on your left. A little cocky hotel but put that aside, the decor of the restaurant and the ground floor of the hotel is clearly middle eastern.

The restaurant itself is small, it can accomodate about 60 diners inside and about 60 others out side. While I was there, not even half the restaurant was filled. The buffet spread was 100% middle eastern. There are about 30 middle eastern dishes to choose from starting from appetizers to dessert. I started off with my favourite dish the hommous (mashed chickpeas with olive oil) together with fatoush, falafel, baba ghanouj and a stack of lebanese bread. The hommous was perfectly done, you can feel the smooth textures and the taste. The samosa was also very delicious.

The main course was even more interesting, there was this dish called Makloubah which was rice cooked with pieces of chicken (something like briyani bukhara). The chicken was very nice and tender. There were also meatballs with beans in tomato sause, baked brinjal and a few gravy dishes. Of course middle eastern cusine would not be perfect without shish kebab, shish tawouk and roast lamb. The kebab was nice but not spectacular.

For dessert, I had a fruit platter, some middle eastern cookies and baklava which was sinfully sweet. Then there was this interesting milk pudding to top it off. Very nice.

Overall, for RM39 for the buffet it was a very good deal and i would recommend if you would like to try out middle eastern food. However, i was not fully satisfied. I have tasted better middle eastern cuisine. So the next day i head over to the Islamic Arts Museum Restaurant. Let's save that for another post.

Here's a review from FriedChillies.

Comments

[Yazmeen Edina]

Thanks for the review. Would give it a try soon.

[Abedib]

KaZ,
After reading your blog and looking at those delicious dishes, my 'pahala puasa' sudah kurus at least 20% ler;-)

Anyway, I keep of note of it because at the moment I am on a special diet program-eating Quacker oats for sahur and controlled makan at dinner time.

Lepas raya, I shall call you.

[KaZ]

Yes abedib... lepas raya we shall go to that Turkish restaurant :)