*Notice: Sawatdee has since been closed down for business.
If you have been following my blog, I’m sure you have read my praises for Sawatdee, a humble little Thai restaurant smacked in the middle of Bandar Puteri, Puchong. The food were gorgeous and the service was friendly.
I got a call from Somjit, the owner (can’t recall the date but it was before Chinese New Year for sure) after my first visit in November, asking me to drop by, as she’s gonna revamp the menu and will have a photo session (taking pictures for the menu) on that particular Sunday.
She got herself a real professional photographer that day. That guy was well equipped with lightings, Mac laptop, props, numerous camera lenses and so on. I just can’t resist to spy a bit on how he works – the food styling, the angles and the lighting. He was only there to shoot 7 pictures and that costs RM700 (including printing and framing, I’m not sure how large the pictures will be). O.O”
Somjit intended to take as much pictures of all the dishes that day, either they’re for the new menu or future use, hence she also asked a friend with DSLR to come along. Unfortunately, I couldn’t stay there the whole day for the shooting, so I only managed to take some of them.
*Those who like fish might like the pictures below, else you might find the fish with its mouth opened a tad disturbing. 🙂
According to Somjit, she plans introduce more variety of dishes into her new menu and increase the serving portions too (something like banquet style). The Deep Fried Fish with Spicy Garlic and Sweet Basil Leaves was good; the meat were firm and fresh, laced with mild spicy garlic flavour. The deep fried basil leaves provides a refreshing citrusy taste and crispy texture to the fish.
The Deep Fried Fish in Three Flavours Sauce tasted pretty much like sweet and sour fish, except there were ginger and spring onion added to the sauce. The combination of sweet, sour and spicy goes well with the fish.
Have you tried Thai-styled otak-otak before? If yes, this Deep Fried Fish in Dry Curry Paste tasted pretty similar to that, except the cooking method (the fish for otak-otak were minced, while this one is deep fried and served with broccoli).
I think Somjit did a good thing by combining two different dishes into one, such as this Deep Fried Fish with Mango Salad. Mango Salad is my favourite Thai salad (read more here). The salad (prepared with shredded young mangoes, onion, cili padi and cashew nuts) lent a tangy twist to the dish.
A prettily garnished dish, Sawatdee Special Deep Fried Fish in Batter came with abundance of fish fillets, basil leaves, vegetables and egg. The batter was light, not too thick to mask the flavour of the fish.
Too much deep fried fish? Here’s a steamed version, Steamed Fish with Soy Sauce, served with plenty of vegetables such as mushroom, young corn, carrot, broccoli and cauliflower florets, chilli, ginger and parsley. A very healthy dish! The steamed fish doesn’t have any muddy or fishy smell and the soy sauce complements the fish nicely.
While I didn’t try the Steamed Fish in Yellow Curry as I am stuffed at this point, it looked rather delish. The gravy could be thicker though as it seems a bit watery here.
*to be continued in Part 2. No more fish in Part 2, don’t worry. 😛
Read my previous post on Sawatdee here, in case you haven’t.
Gosh, that’s a looooooot of fish to eat in one sitting! if i had to choose one, i guess i’d go for the deep-fried in batter, which looks really mouthwatering! 😀
my gosh.. that’s a lot of way to prepare the fish. For fish lover, they can’t order all the above said fish… taht’s why they have to go back again and again,,, lol!!! Good strategy for the owner I can say 🙂
No Pla Nueng Manau (Lime)?
oh dang …. got any allergic attack after the meal?
soooooo fishy case. hahaha …
rm100 per pic??? wahlau eh…
i think ur pic alr damn shiok lor..nvr ask the owner and see whether u sell urs for MUCH cheaper la..
Nice option for Thai in B. Puteri. Fish look ferocious:)
the entire meal is only FISH????
that’s quite a number of variation of the Thai fish. cool stuff. hmmm…am curious to know what equipments the cameraman uses…no pic of the equipments? heheheh…
eh you only took pics? where are the rest of the stuff you ate?? 😛
this is awesome photos, lovely! cool!
The presentation of fish was so good….mouth watering!
woah, that’s loads of fish! heaps and heaps , dude!
Wooow…. what a fishy meal..
Oh, ah loy mak mak.
wah lau….those fishes combined is even more than my personal 1 year worth of fish consumption 😛
Fish, fish and more fish, hehe…
a very fishy post here.. lol ..
next up – prawns?
Somjit should have hired u instead eh :p
Hi all,
Yeah, this first part is entirely on fish only (and these were just a small part of the extensive fish list). No, we didn’t have any allergic attack after the meal and yes, we did have other dishes too (vegetables, chicken, prawns) which will be feature on the second post.
Unkaleong,
I think they have. Can’t confirm here, need to ask Somjit beforehand.
Joe,
The photographer actually took some really mean pictures. Mine just couldn’t compare with his… =(
Truly it was rather interesting for me to read this post. Thanx for it. I like such topics and anything connected to them. I would like to read more soon.
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Hi Jason,
Somjit’s my long lost friend.
I was in KUL from 1991-1998 and then moved to the U.K.
My name is Ane(แอ่น)
Would really love to hear from her.
Please pass on my email to her
Many thanks
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simonovamagda1987@ http://mail.ru
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