Tanah Rata: Places to eat

During our stay in Cameron Highlands, we had our meals in Tanah Rata. We did plan to eat at a restaurant in Brinchang but I can't remembered why we didn't go there.

Rossette Restaurant

Jalan Besar, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands

Had dinner here the first night in Cameron Highland. The environment looks cozy, the staff was polite. They serve western food and local food (i.e. rice, noodles) as well as steamboat. I had teriyaki beef (RM15), while Jane and my brother had roasted chicken (RM 12) and lamb chop (RM 15) respectively. My sister decided to have rice - with vege and cashew nuts (RM 8). To me, the food was ok. We also had thai fishcakes (RM 9) and prawn tomyam as appetizers. The fishcakes are small though. The main disappointment was that the tomyam have lots of prawns' head! not much of the prawn itself ...

Lamb Chop

Chicken and cashew nuts with vegetables

Yusuf Restoren

We had "banana leaves" lunch here. It was already 2.00pm when we arrived so the choices of of as very limited. They dont have any more fish curry ...so we chose chicken (ayam madu), fried fish, and something else that I cannot remember. The staff/owner was also slow in serving us, and was often distracted by whats happenning round the restaurant, while taking our order. Definitely not a place i want to go again ...



Fastfoods

I saw a KFC and Marrybrown here. Didn't see McDonald though ...but we didn't go to any of these fastfood establishments. With many restaurants and stalls around, we didnt look for any of these fastfood restaurant.


Steamboat

A lot of places offering steamboat meals. The ones that we saw that was always crowded (and a long queue outside and people clearly waiting for empty tables) is the Restoren Ferm Nyonya. Must be the popular one - coz like they said, if you want to choose a place to eat, go to a place where there is a huge crowd. Follow the crow :-)

Right next to Ferm Nyonya is the Mayflower Restaurant. Also offering steamboat. And the queue, again, was quite long. Mayflower offered three types of soup-based for the steamboat (1) chicken soup (RM12 per person), tomyam soup (also RM12) and half of both tomyam and chicken soup (RM 14 per person). Unlike the steamboat meals that I enjoyed in KL where we choose what we want from a buffet table, here it is more or less fixed. You'll get the prawns, squids, chicken, beef, crabsticks, fishballs, jellyfish, beancurds, eggs, noodles and bihun, and 9 types of vege ...My brother complained that he thought they should renamed it as "steamboat sayur" (vegetable steamboat) coz he prefer the buffet steamboat and the ability to choose what he want to eat.



Tea and scones

This is THE place for tea lovers and many places offer tea and scones. Just drop by at one of the shops. I only stopped at Bharat Tea Plantation on the way to Tanah Rata, so I wouldn't know how much or what sort of tea is being offered. The Olde Smokehouse does have tea and scones with devonshire cream in the menu. Again, i didnt try it coz i went to the lunch menu instead :-) At Bharat Tea Shop, we had Marsalla Tea -tea infussed with spices. My sister, dad and i enjoyed ours but mum and Jane didn't like its smell and taste. The scones was hot, and soft...very nice!


Ye Olde Smokehouse - Restaurant

I have covered this in my previous posting. A bit pricey - they serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as serving teas and scones. I dont know about the other time, but the lunch hour is from 12 noon to 2.30pm. The setting is nice and the garden is absolutely fabulous.