Mind-blowing Punjabi food made by Sikh family in Malaysia

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Living in Malaysia is nice to be able to eat different kinds of food every day. Since the Covid-19 outbreak, I cook myself and enjoy healthy meals more often at home. And two or three times a week I love to order a lot of various foods through a delivery app.

However, among the food delivered, there are some types of food that I do not want to order via delivery app.

In fact, there are so many options to choose from, such as grocery, cosmetic shops, bakery, restaurants and mini marts in the delivery app. It is clear that any food can be delivered.

But I will definitely go to a restaurant in order to eat only the Indian foods, such as dosa, naan, idli, roti, chapati, lentil dal, and various indian curries. I guess that other people may order the indian food through delivery app as well, but I have never tried this kind of food through delivery yet.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to have it delivered. The reason is that my beloved food like idli, dosa, chapati made fresh and eaten right away when it is made at the spot and sold at a restaurant.

If it is delivered and cooled down, the chapati becomes hard stale like ordinary commercial bread and loses its taste. And when lentils daal cool down, they really lose their taste and become tasteless too.

So, I have to go to the restaurant and enjoy the food there. It’s also because I don’t want to see myself disappointed after eating the delivery, that my favorite food has cooled and lost its taste.

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During the Covid-19 period, the government sometimes lifts restriction to allow customers to sit and eat in restaurants. That means people can go to the gym, and I also can go rock climbing.

At the time, my Chinese friend “Ricky” told me that I must try the homemade Punjabi-style Indian food made by the Sikh family. In particular, he said that the chapatti and lamb curry were really delicious.

So I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to go there at once and try the mutton curry and chapati as well as several other dishes. I don’t always have time to go to a restaurant and eat during the Covid-19 pandemic time, so when a local friend asks me to go, I cheer and follow.

“Sentosa Chapati” is a Sikh family run indian restaurant that is close to Punjabi style North Indian food. I heard that Sentosa Restaurant is named after the name of the neighborhood. In addition, I can’t forget that name because when I go to Singapore, there is an island called Sentosa in the southernmost part.

This is a family-run restaurant where you can taste real delicious Punjab-style rich mutton soup and a variety of meat and vegetable curries, along with freshly made chapati, naan, dosa, samosa and paratha. Also they sell Malaysian food like nasi lemak and typical nasi goreng variations.

It’s pretty far from where I live, so it’s not a place I go to often. So my friend Ricky picked me up from my condo and we went to the Sentosa restaurant. The problem was that when we got to the restaurant, it was about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and it wasn’t ready yet.

We arrived a little early at 3pm because the restaurant usually opens at 3:30pm, but the restaurant owner, with a stylish turban on his head, told us to come around 4pm when they were ready.

There are three of us, including Ricky’s friend Peter. And we went to the local market nearby in the Sentosa neighborhood and ordered dim sum dishes that are typical of Yum Cha at a Chinese corner restaurant that is still open.

We tried not to eat too much here because we had to eat Indian food later, but we still managed to enjoy various delicious yum cha style dim sum dishes with coffee drinks between three of us. In particular, the homemade chinese yam cake, red bean porridge, and mung bean porridge are really delicious and fresh.

Around 4 pm, we decided to go back to the Sentosa restaurant after spending about an hour munching and eating while talking.

And when we headed back to Sentosa, it was after 4 o’clock, and the Sikh owner was making the chapati while flattening the dough with a rolling pin on the table.

There are already more than 10 dishes prepared in huge stainless steel pots and arranged neatly. And a female employee at the restaurant is frying delicious-looking pakora and samosa in a wok full of oil.

In fact, this local punjabi restaurant is not a real restaurant with doors that can be opened and closed. Since it is an open air hut looking place, it can be classified as a street food hawker that sells local food.

I always dream of Indian food filled with all kinds of spices. So I wanted to try all the 10 or more foods prepared in the restaurant, but I decided to eat the foods Ricky introduced first on that day.

These are the soft and light chapati, mutton soup and mutton curry made on the spot. For drinks, I always ordered a kopi kosong, just like I do when eating at the local mamak restaurant. This is local style black coffee. Additionally, we also ordered a plate of samosa filled with masala flavoured and mashed potatoes and fried vegetables battered in flour.


While waiting, Peter and I have so much anticipation for the food at this place that Ricky says is so delicious. Peter, over 50, and Ricky, over 60, make playful moves towards my camera like children who can’t sit still and cheer while waiting for delicious food.


I think we waited less than 10 minutes. Drinks came first, and mutton curry is served immediately. Although the curry plate is so small, at first glance, a generous amount of lamb meat seasoned with heavily turmeric and coriander powder in a thick curry gravy is placed on our table.

Then, the simmering mutton soup is served in a deep bowl. The soup is deliciously topped with coriander leaves as a garnish. It smells like black pepper and makes my mouth watering instantly. I tasted the broth of mutton soup first because I couldn’t resist until chapati and lentil daal arrive.

The mutton soup has a really deep flavor. The oily taste of mutton and the flavor of peppers harmonize with each other, giving it a subtle spicy and delicious and rich taste. The seasoning is just right, not too salty and not too bland. There is no need for separate bowl of rice.

Kindly Ricky served me half of the soup in a separate bowl, and I really enjoyed it right away, literally drinking the whole soup in 1 minute. And then I tried the amazingly thin and light chapati and daal as well as the mutton curry.

I can tell the chapati is so soft that it is so delicious even without curry.

I saw the house-made quality sambal at the restaurant earlier and wanted to taste it. So I told the owner that I wanted to taste the sambal, so he brought it to me separately.


In order to enjoy the delicious sambal, mutton curry gravy, I ordered more chapatis, and I felt my stomach started to fill up.

At that time, we also enjoyed the freshly cook samosas and pakora, dipped in a spicy tomato and onion-juice-infused dipping sauce made at the restaurant.

It is delicious too. I was really surprised by the taste of fresh samosa and sauce that I had never tasted at other mamak and Indian restaurants in Malaysia

We ate so many different kinds of food, but the price we paid did not exceed RM30. It was only about $7 USD. I am so surprised and happy that three adults can eat this much at a reasonable price.
As I said before, it is a place where you can taste Punjabi food run by Sikh family among Indians in Malaysia. The owner’s wife makes all of her food early in the morning at a house near the restaurant, and bring the cooked food here between 3 pm and 4 pm in the afternoon to sell.

It is popular with local residents, and there are many regulars who come from far away like us. It is so delicious that most of the food is sold out by 10pm. They also sell hot boiled milk, and whole wheat flour for making chapati.
The restaurant is closed every Saturday.

Sentosa Chapati

Address: Jalan Seri Sentosa 12, Taman Sri Sentosa, 58000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur

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