MissSushi's review of Awana

Wow. My mouth starts watering when I think about the tastes at Awana. All dishes we ordered possessed a fine balance between the fragrant lemongrass, the spicy chillie and the sour lime. I am far from being knowledgeable on Malaysian food, but one should know when something tastes special. Here the food is special and I want to go back to try most things on the menu – the only thing I was looking for and could not find was Prawn Laksa soup, which I love but I guess that's a very casual dish or, maybe to my horror, europeanized. We first started with a couple of Hibiscus cocktails which tasted of aromatic exotic flowers and then shared some malaysian bread (prawn murtabak) and seafood satay. Our main meal (on our waiters recommendation) included sea bass with lemongrass, chillie, garlic & lime, beef with ginger & garlic and a delicious stir fried lobster & prawn dish with rice noodles & greens with a little dark soya sauce and fragrant herbs and spices. Just writing this makes me hungry again – the taste combinations are just so complete in this type of food: the sour, sweet, hot and salty are all so perfectly amalgamated that it leads to new and overwhelming taste sensations. Yum.