Malaysian Restaurant in Chinatown?

[flight3023]

I am looking for a casual, cheap and good Malaysian restaurant in Chinatown for dinner. Is Penang my only option?

[Marco]

Malaysia Restaurant (is known as Sanur too?) in the arcade (Elizabeth & Bowery)

[Brian S]

Does anyone here know of a Malaysian reataurant where the cooks are Malay and not Chinese? I wonder if the food would be different from the perinakan chow the Malaysian restaurants here feature. For more about Malaysian food, check out Chowhound poster Foodfirst's blog.

http://eatingasia.typepad.com/

[csw]

Try new Indonesia and Malaysia on doyer?

[Brian S]

You might be right! The Indonesian restaurants in Queens are staffed by Indonesians (Minangkabau mostly) who are not Chinese.

[LisaZee]

I thought Nyonya was really good. A friend who's travelled there a lot rates it as the best.

[Brian S]

I agree. I've been eating there since it opened. I tried Skyway once and didn't find it superior. However, I can't judge it based on one visit and I'm planning a return visit, possibly tonight.

[Brian S]

I went back to Skyway and ordered the special pork with rice. Sietsema recommended it and pork belly is one of my favorite dishes. It was dreadful. Cubes of over-the-hill pork belly coated with a bland, insipid brown sauce. I had to force myself to finish it.

Vatel killed himself because he believed he'd served the king a bad meal. If he'd served THIS to the king, the king would have killed HIM.

I think this was a fluke and I'll go back again.

[Brian S]

I hadnt been to Nyonya this year and in view of everyones comments I was kind of avoiding it. But I was trapped in the crowds of San Gennaro yesterday and Nyonya offered an escape. Man, it was good.

I ordered fish head soup with rice noodles. The white milky soup had a clear sharp acidic flavor, clearing your head like a Tibetan prayer bell, and there were pickled veggies and slices of ginger to add contrasting notes of sour. Fried pieces of fish head completed the tonal symphony.

[wleatherette]

skyway. it's miles better than penang and nyonya.

[Pan]

Agreed completely. And Sanur, etc., etc.

[Feed Me]

Jaya on Baxter St. - get their skate wings

[Chandavkl]

Happy Joy, 25 Canal St., serves both Chinese and Malaysian food. Check the archives for a good review of the place.

[xigua]

New Malaysia Restaurant (on Bowery, behind Yummy Noodles)
New Indonesia & Malaysia (18 Doyers St)They do kuehs in the day too.
Jaya (Baxter St)
All decent, cheap and not as far a walk as Skyway is from the Canal St subway stop

[ohny]

I'll second the rec for New Indonesia and Malysia - a.ka. "Sanur". Sure, its a whole in the wall - but good eating. They have a great Roti Canai. :-)

[welle]

Third for Sanur - love, love their 'Assam' dishes. Get the 'over rice' version. Their bah kuh teh is great too.

[Pan]

Skyway is close to the East Broadway stop on the F train.

[bolletje]

Try Skyway at 11 Allen Street.
There's been a lot of discussion of it on this board.
It's very delicious.

[kenito799]

definitely excellent, check out the threads on skyway, the best malaysian i have had

[Lucia]

Nyonya