Ayam Buak Keluak (Betel Nut Curry Chicken) Best !
I can safely say I have not eaten a better Ayam Buak Keluak in a long while. Such is the high standard of Indigo Blue. The chicken is cooked in the curry sauce so that the meat is very tender while the Betel Nut (Buak Keluak) is cut open with easy access to the goody black 'meat' of the nut. The gravy is not too thick and the taste of the cinnamon together with the betel nut and spices remind me of the days of visiting Malacca and sampling their best Peranakan cuisine !
Shiok ! Very very tasty in my humble opinion.
Babi Nonya
This is the fatty pork done with the lemak (cocunut) flavour, mildly spicy but I would say not too impressive compared to the degustation 3 servings, and the Ayam Buak Keluak. As Peranakan Chinese people, they have fused the pork dish with something which most indigenous people would associate with either Chicken or Dou Fu.
We sat at the table at the forefront
The setting of the place is simple, well lit, blue (hence the name) tones with clean overall look. I commented that they must have very strong supply and exhaust fan ducts (I have experienced in this) such that the detached kitchen when open does not emnate strong lemak and other smells which are so typical of older establishments.
They have done a major coup this time, the Les Amis Group.
My ratings :
Food : 4.8 / 5 (I could not give a 5, the babi lemak was only so so)
Ambience : 4. 5 / 5 (50 persons in an 2500 ft2 area with clean lines and bright lighting)
Service : 3. 8 (the serving staff while helpful were clueless about several dishes)
Price : $ 150 approx. for 3 persons, $ 50 per person with more than enough food for
each person
Overall : 13. 1 / 15
4.4 / 5 ; Excellent (short of perfect)
Would I come again ? : Yes
INDIGO BLUE KITCHEN
1 Scotts Road
#03-09/10/11
Shaw Centre
Singapore 228208
Tel : 6235 3218
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