Yemeni food experience at Hadramawt -Groupon!

Greetings people.

Eating good food at a cheap price is AWESOME! I mean, who wouldn't love to eat good food at cheap price right? I'm no exception as well plus with all the deals that being offered with so much of variety of dishes, will someone who loved food will miss it? Hel, NO!! This time, I wanted to try Arabian food after I saw the deal offered by Groupon and this was the deal (4-Course Authentic Arabic Meal + Free Flow of Ice Lemon Tea for 2 People at Hadramawt Restaurant for RM35 instead of RM153.10), so there I saved RM118!!!

The deal consists of (as below - courtesy to Groupon):

To ensure that the deal is really worth to try and buy the deal, I did a homework before I bought this deal. I googled Hadramawt and I read few reviews about this restaurant and their food. From what I read, mostly preferred Chicken/Lamb kabsah, so I had a rough idea on what I'm going to feed my stomach.The reason why I did a research first because I never believe what they will serve just by looking at their photoshoped gastronomic pictures. Pretty much like wen McD advertise a burger picture and how actually the burger looks like when we purchase. So, I never fall for this marketing tricks! Hadramawt Restaurant, located in Chulan Square in the vicinity of Jalan Raja Chulan and Pavilion KL, is this rather exquisite restaurant serving Yemeni and Arabic food.
Once I bought the deal and decided the date and time to go, I called Hadramawt for reservation as stated in the deal and FYI, I had no idea where is thic place loctated except for the truth that it is located somewhere in Bukit Bintang. Somehow we managed to get our a** to that restaurant.Its somewhere nearby to Pavilion shopping mall.

Me and my beloved bf were spoiled for choices - to choose mendy or kebab, we decided to go with mendy since it looks more appetizing and comes with rice, so yeah - I chosed chicken and my bf chosed lamb ( I supposed to choose lamb too but I wanted to try different item, so Chicken has to be chosen). And, now I introduce to you fellow readers, Arabic salad!!!!

Basically, the salad was like a normal salad and I doubt it had the touch of Arabian elements in it. It consists of tomatoes, cucumbers, green pepper, some green leaves with lemon juice and powdered herbs.
Then, came my main course - CHICKEN MENDY!

I was kind of disappointed with this dish because : - The chicken was dry and it had no taste - no spices added. - The rice was nice (long- grained Basmathi rice). Had the spiced taste and it was so filling!!

Then, my bf had lamb mendy and here it is This dish was disappointed too. Lamb was dry even though it was cooked just right, soft and without the strong lamb taste and smell. I was expecting the meats to be juicy but nope! I don't know if this is how the Arabian food supposed to be. And then, they served us mixed vegetable stew supposed to consists of carrots, potatoes, lady fingers, pumpkins, green beans and cauliflower but what I saw in the stew - potatoes and cauliflower. It tasted something sambar (Indian gravy) without dhal. Both of us were full by the time we finished. But still, we got dessert to try plus arabic tea!! The dessert served was Mohallabiya - A classic Middle Eastern dessert (An Arabic Milk Pudding ). It tasted nice - rose water and wasn't too sweet. was just nice.Something Arabian at last! 

And then comes our arabic tea, NOTHING SPECIAL. It was teh - o as we call it in Malaysia.period. I was so interested to try on their one of dessert IDKW - and I try this dessert called bakhlawa - RM3.00. It was so freaking, damn and whatever word to stress the sweetness of this dessert. Who said Indian's sweet very sweet, try this and you will say Indian's sweet is nowhere close to it!! I had to drink water to dilute the sweetness and then only continue chewing. Damn! And yea, free flow of Iced lemon tea. So much for a iced lemon tea - tasteless! And, in the end, we hardly could walk because it was too filling!! Overall it's a rather filling meal coupled with the fact that the ambience is really nice, I would think this place is suited for everyone, whether you're a couple looking for a private dining spot, or a family looking for a hearty meal - kabsahs perhaps!