Salero Kito Padang Restaurant

May 6, 2014

After our see to Warra Warra concluding month, Claire alerted us to the beingness of Salero Kito Padang adjacent door. It promises Melbourne's exclusively West Sumatran cuisine, with a make of inexpensive in addition to seemingly authentic dishes. The setting is pretty basic - bare woods tables, brilliant lights in addition to a food-courty vibe. Food-wise it's all bain marie dishes (aside from a few specials) in addition to the veggie options are pretty limited. We basically sampled them all. All of the veggie dishes except for the egg seemed vegan in addition to the curries looked gluten-free, but in that place was no labelling.

From the bain marie the bargain is iii dishes in addition to rice for $12 or ii in addition to rice for $11. We went all inwards in addition to filled upwardly our plates.

Cindy kicked off with a spicy egg, a corn fritters in addition to the silverbeet curry on rice. The spicy egg was actually spicy, a difficult boiled in addition to battered egg with a spoon of explosive chilli sauce. The silverbeet curry packed a decent kicking equally well, in addition to the coconutty sauce soaked its means through the rice pretty effectively. The corn fritter was the star of the demo - a salty, savoury please of crisply fried corn in addition to veggie chunks.

I had the silverbeet curry equally well, amongst the jackfruit curry in addition to roughly fried soybean. The fried soybean is basically deep-fried tempeh, which is most equally delicious equally it sounds. It would bring been cracking to bring roughly chilli sauce to smear on top, but in that place wasn't whatever on the tabular array in addition to I was likewise lazy to ask. The jackfruit curry was interesting - a long means from our experiments with jackfruit - it was mildly spicy in addition to soft, without a huge amount of its ain flavour.

We couldn't resist ordering roughly of the to a greater extent than intriguing drinks from the refrigerator - these were super sweetness but had a decent outburst of floral tea season nether all the sugar.

I'm glad nosotros tried Salero Kito Padang, but it's non actually a house aimed at vegetarians - the meat-eaters bring a lot to a greater extent than to select from. Still, it's inexpensive in addition to offers something a fleck dissimilar to the commons - it's a rare eating seat that offers deep-fried tempeh.

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There a handful of positive reviews out in that place most Salero Kito Padang's sis institution inwards Malvern - run across Tea in addition to Cupcake, In Melbourne in addition to Udang Kering.

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Salero Kito Padang Restaurant
18/235 Bourke St, Melbourne (in the Tivoli Arcade)
9639 7268
menu
http://www.salerokito.com.au/

Accessibility: There's a shine entryway in addition to a reasonably spacious interior. Ordering in addition to payment happens at a low-ish counter. We didn't see the toilets, they're presumably located somewhere inwards the arcade.