Everyone who knows anything about Satay (or sate) knows that Kajang serves them best, just like Klang has the best bak kut teh. However, Kajang is not exactly located at the heart of Klang Valley, and fuel prices being at this level, it make sense to find closer alternatives. Luckily, some of the famous Kajang satay houses have expanded their operations to friendlier locations, and one of the most prominent and successful satay restaurants, Haji Samuri, can be found at Damansara Uptown, among other places (see the wiki link for more locations).
satay in peanut sauce with sambal
Unlike the traditional satay places that are often associated with shacks and less than hygienic dining condition with plenty of flies and weather unfriendly location, Sate Haji Samuri is a mid standard restaurant with clean and comfortable interior. A place worthy of bringing your in-laws, perhaps.
For dinner, instead of the more common chicken, beef, and mutton satays, I also ordered a couple sticks of the rarer rabbit and deer meat variety. There are also tripe, liver, and fish satay, but my stomach is only so big. We also ordered a couple ketupats to go along with the meat.
9 different sateys to choose from
It did take a while before the food came, mostly because the meat is BBQed on demand, especially for the less popular rabbit and deer varieties. However, it was definitely worth the short wait, the satays came steaming hot and tasted very good. I like the fact that they give you unlimited very thick peanut sauce and have the sambal (chili paste) separate so you can cater for your own level of spiciness. The ketupat complimented the satay’s meaty and spicy peanut sauce with a more blunt taste very well, and there’s the standard fresh shallots and cucumber to complete the dish. It was very delicious.
After sampling 5 different types of meat, my favorite is still chicken and beef. The rabbit meat tends to be a little dry due to the lack of fats (see rabbit starvation for more info). Mutton and deer meat were just average, in my opinion.
ketupat is usually the side dish that goes well with satey
The price per stick ranges from RM 0.60 (chicken, beef) to RM 1.60 (rabbit), and RM 0.80 for one ketupat. Pretty reasonably priced, considering the generous portion of meat on each stick.
Another equally good satay place can be found at Ampang, but only offering chicken and beef satays. If you’re into some non-halal pork satay, try Kedai Satay Xiang Ji at Melaka.
Sate Haji Samuri is just a couple kilometers from 1-utama
Address:
No. 79, Jalan 21/37,
Damansara Uptown,
Petaling Jaya
Tel: 03-7710 5318
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By oliviasy on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply
hj samuri in kajang is a huge place. and i prefer the mutton to beef.
By Kelvin on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply
oi be consistent with spelling lah. sate, satay, satey.
By ShaolinTiger on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply
Kelvin you dunno anything about search engine leh? duh..
Have to say I eat at Haji Samuri fairly often, great place. I don’t make use of the 9 types of satay though I have tried them all, chicken and beef is enough
The fish is quite decent, but agree the rabbit is too dry and the mutton/deer are beaten by the beef.
By Mossie`Ol Chin on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply
i haven’t had anything since i woke up… now you really made me really hungry!!!
By Mossie`Ol Chin on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply
i haven’t had anything since i woke up… now you really made me really hungry!!!
By Mossie`Ol Chin on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply
i haven’t had anything since i woke up… now you really made me really hungry!!!
By Mossie`Ol Chin on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply
sorry for that triple posts… no idea what happened. i click the submit button once only… sorry
By KY on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply
Mossie`Ol Chin,
No worries, just something wrong with my WP/template. :/
By tankiasu on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply
Yea their satay is pretty good. Usually I’ll go to their outlet in KESAS rest area. Ample parking and convenient too.
By ~Bee Nee~ on Jun 21, 2007 | Reply
I find the quality there a bit erratic. The last time I ate there the satay was horribly burnt. And they had the nerve to actually arrange the sticks to hide the burnt bits!
By miccobayb on Jun 22, 2007 | Reply
Hey there,KY! LoL private message at friendster cafe? That gave me a funÑy idea of actually trying to make it happen by dropping personal msgs in a box and later calling out to the person to collect their msgs. Anyway, would appreciate it very much if you help me with the publicity. We would defintely make this malaysia blogger’s day official so the more the merrier, KY! See you there!
By kl_fat_guy on Jun 26, 2007 | Reply
On last sunday nite I went there for my dinner.Can said the place there quite nice but abit dirty,actually I saw their worker “lap” the table with dry cloth and after using my tissue to “re-lap” again,walau eh……don’t want to say anymore,scare kena ban afterwards.
I don’t know you all guys notice the sate at Uptown is a little bit smaller compare to Kajang,maybe the rental there expensive qua…I actually order mutton and chicken sate and the taste for mutton is quite good but chicken eerrrrrr….( no comment ).
Can said I still prefer Hj Samuri at Kajang because the freshness and aroma much more better.At uptown I don’t feel the taste is good because not that juicy and also basic aroma also not much.The chicken meat abit rough and hard until my teeth want to come out,ahahahaha.
Actually I notice there are no different between Kajang and Uptown is the peanut sauce and sambal,hoping their quality at Uptown not dropping.
By FeR on Feb 15, 2008 | Reply
perfect!
gotta love your maps…saves me a lot of trouble circling around the area although it’s been said it’s behind maybank (not familiar with that place)
thank you!
By KY on Feb 15, 2008 | Reply
FeR,
You’re welcome!