1. Chicken Curry

I have been a fan of KC Cafe since a drunken 3am Roti Chenai many years ago. In my Lindaur-soused haze I feasted. Spicy curry soup, exactly three pieces of chicken and three lumps of broth infused potato, fried bread (fried + carbs, how could you possibly go wrong), truly the food of the gods. I don't remember much else about that night but that meal. KC became my go-to for late night feeding frenzies. I can't remember when I first visited them sober in the light of day, but it was just as good at 11am on a Monday. I had Chicken Hot Pepper sauce, which is now my firm favourite, a sticky, substantial gold standard against which other dishes are measured. 

I have made many a resolution over the years, most of which fail. They tend to involve weight loss as an ultimate goal, and since my metabolism is no longer fierce, my appetite is immense and the only lifting I do these days is pints to my gob, they are futile and short lived. This time I am making one that I can actually stick with: eat everything on Kc's extensive menu. All 100+ dishes. Yes, even the weird stuff... I'm not sure how long it will take, but it will be delicious. (Except for Sweet and Sour Pork, I am dreading that. Worst dish ever invented, if you exclude pineapple on pizza). 

So I begin. Chicken Curry. Number 1 on the picture menu of the least-challenging dishes for drunks to point at. Mostly Malaysian-inspired. Decent food, though I feel that the Chinese dishes on the big menu on the wall is where KC truly shines. Chicken curry is precisely that. A soupy, Malaysian-inspired feed with exactly three pieces of chicken (on the bone, with skin, which is a bit fiddly for a lazy, chopstick-inept Westerner such as myself) and three lumps of potato. Ah the potato lumps, the best part. Soft, melt-in-the-mouth and flavoursome from absorbing the soup. With the massive side of rice included it is a veritable carb orgy. The curry is very similar, if not identical to the curry that comes with the Roti Chenai. It is creamy, with a pleasant kick of spice, and has three bay leaves floating around. One of my favourite aromatics, they work so well in a variety of cuisines. 

At $13 it is filling and decent value, but would not be my first choice to order as Roti Chenai not only comes with fatty bread instead of steamed rice, but is also a few dollars cheaper. Chicken Curry is the diet option I suppose. Well, somewhat. I'm probably going to get super fat doing this blog. I'm already rather chubby to begin with. Two years of culinary school and a diet of beer and nachos will do that. 

I was thinking of doing a rating out of five stars, but taste is so subjective. Instead I will describe to the best of my ability and show a photo, taken on my crappy iPhone 5S. Maybe if this blog gains me fame and fortune I will upgrade, but it seems unlikely. Imagine all the Roti Chenai you could buy for the cost of a new iPhone!

Would I order Chicken Curry again? Probably not as Roti Chenai is cheaper and comes with (duh...) roti. At Number 1 on the menu with a big colourful picture at convenient pointing height it is probably very popular. A positive is that it comes out very quickly, quicker than the roti. I wonder what the capacity of their massive rice cooker is? 

Eagerly awaiting my next meal...