I’d gotten Su Yin a groupon voucher meal for two at Awana for her birthday as I’ve always been pretty happy with the food there and being Malaysian I thought she would enjoy it. She nicely took me as her plus one. We started with some (non) alcoholic cocktails before getting into the food proper.

The key dishes I like to enjoy at Awana is their satay, preferably chicken. Alas on the set menu was the beef satay! Okay it was pretty delicious being tender, juicy and with a hint of smokiness, but it was no chicken satay. Su Yin ordered what she thought would be a fresh prawn spring roll but it ended up being deep fried.

For mains it was more beef for me with the massaman curry and Su Yin opted for the lighter fish dish, which would have been my first choice except I’d had that before. For me the beef wasn’t quite as tender or juicy as I’d want it to be – I thought it would be fall apart tender and whilst it wasn’t tough, it was just a touch on the dry side.

Desserts were Pisang roti canai a sweetened crispy flat bread filled with banana in heavy milk served with chocolate and lemon grass ice cream and a guava cheesecake and banana ice cream. Both were quite good but I couldn’t really fit much of them in. I know. How odd. Maybe my drink had been much too creamy at the start.