Deli Portofino, Cheras Sentral Mall, KL

A new Hero Market recently opened in Cheras Sentral Mall and with it, comes a small cafe serving local favorites, called Deli Portofino. To be honest, when we first saw the name, we thought it was an Italian restaurant. Their menu is small, consisting only of 3 main items - nasi lemak, mee rebus and mee siam, as well as drinks.

We tried the nasi lemak set (RM6.90), which comes with fragrant coconut rice, sambal, cucumber, ikab bilis, peanut and your choice of meat - we went for the beef rendang, which was pretty tasty. We like the sambal, which is the sweet-spicy variant.Other than beef, you can also go for chicken rendang, ayam goreng berempah, or sotong sambal. Fried egg is an additional RM1. For the price, we were happy with the nasi lemak that we had here.

We also had the mee rebus (RM6.30), which comes with yellow noodles in a thick, creamy gravy. The gravy is usually made from sweet potatoes, curry powder, water, salted soybeans, dried shrimps and peanuts and is a combination of sweet, spicy and savoury flavours. The mee rebus was garnished with fried firm tofu, green chillies, spring onions, fried shallots, bean sprouts, calamansi lime, 1 (very) small piece of beef, and hard boiled egg. I enjoyed this too.

*Note: Jaya Grocer in Cheras Sentral Mall has closed down and replaced by Hero Market.

Opening times: 10am to 10pm daily.

Self-service.

Location: Deli Portofino, My Hero Hypermarket, B19, Basement Level, Cheras Sentral Mall, KM10, Jalan Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Parking - flat rate RM2 per entry, free for spend above RM30)

GPS Coordinates: 3.078318, 101.745452

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