Came across Ke Ren Lai (Lot TM-030, Third Mezzanine Floor, The Mall, Mid Valley Southkey, Persiaran Southkey 1, Southkey, 80150 Johor Bahru). They do Hakka cuisine and for some of the dishes, updated representations of them.
One of those updated representations was their ice thunder tea milk (独创擂茶撞奶). I'm gonna agree with the innovative description in the name. It's milky and sweet with a herbal/liquorice profile. As a 茶撞奶, I totally get it. And I like it.
There's lei cha fried rice (爆炒擂茶饭). The taste didn't veer much from regular thunder tea rice because the ingredients were mostly the same. What made this was how savoury it was. A little oily perhaps, but still got us spooning mouthful after mouthful.
Their Hakka abacus seeds were not nice. In fairness, the minced meat and tofu bits were deliciously salted and savoury. The yam nuggets were chewy, somewhat akin to mochi and didn't taste particularly yammy. Also more oily than I'm comfortable with. I'm guessing it's the ratio of ingredients that we didn't agree with.
Smoked kampung chicken (炭火烟熏盐焗土鸡). Bird was dry-ish and not tender. Required some jaw work. Was smoky though. That lightly fried tofu and the yuzu goma salad on the side were the highlights and I meant that in a good way.
Enjoyed their dang gui milk with peach gum (当归桃胶蜂蜜奶). 👍🏼
That green stuff was lei cha yoghurt (清轻擂茶酸奶). I thought it was a good balance of those lei cha-ish flavours with the the tanginess from the yoghurt. A third stealing of thunder if you would. 😬 Also nice with those cold frozen berries and candied nuts.
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