Half Moon Kitchen at De Centrum Mall Review

This restaurant resides at the 1st floor of De Centrum Mall. They serve middle eastern cuisine. I believe this restaurant is a sister restaurant called Half Moon Restaurant in Serdang Perdana. 

One difference I notice with middle eastern cuisine is they serve food on a large big plate the size of the table itself, then all the food like kebab, chicken, lamb, rice, condiments are all placed on top of the big plate and when served, everyone will dig in together to eat. Everyone on the table eats from the same big plate. I saw a lot of their middle eastern customers ate that way. This is unlike Chinese food where by each dish is put in a separate plate and everyone each picks up each separate dish on their own plate.



Chicken Royale
Lamb Royale
Their most popular dish is the chicken royal rice platter. This dish consists of their signature roast chicken  served on top of their aromatic long grain arab rice.  On top of that, they serve tomato paste sauce and hummus as condiments. Humus is something foreign to me, it's actually blended sesame seeds mixed with olive oil, the sauce's texture and consistency is something like the Japanese Kewpie sesame seed sauce used for salads. The roast chicken came out perfectly grilled and properly seasoned with middle eastern spices which were foreign to me. The long grain arab rice was also perfectly seasoned which I suspect is accomplished by  cooking basmati long grain rice with lamb soup stock.


Roast Grill in front of shop
The roast chicken are roasted on the premise itself and you can buy an individual bird for RM 20.


Minced beef dish with  hummus
The chefs are from the middle east, so I believe the food is as authentic as it can be. I tested their lamb dish and it also turned out to be perfectly tenderized and delicious.


RM20 for 1 whole roast chicken

One other dish I tested was their Roti, it is an enlarged version of our roti canai which is topped with black sesame seeds.

The restaurant serves complimentary lamb soup. For drinks, there are fruit juices, fruit yogurt drinks and middle east low alcoholic malt beer (Aujan Industries from Dubai).


Overall the food is highly recommended. Only complain is the portions are quite big, I was struggling to finish my portion. Service level for waiters needs improvement as we had to get the waiter's attention before we could order our food after being seated for 15 minutes.