Enjoy Mie — Restaurant in Sydney

BRUH did ya'll SEE the martabak process I MAO DAMN who can finish one by themself?

Enjoy Mie, Sydney City

I've been a big fan of Enjoy Mie's Indonesian noodles, called bakmi. Most bakmi I've tried have a texture almost akin to a thinner Hokkien noodle, but the bakmi you'll find here has a stepped-up bite, chew and slurp factor. Imagine the chewy noodles of a Japanese mazesoba, but instead of mirin and vinegar, you're tasting soy and hot spicy sambal. Across several visits, I've tried my hand at the bakmi with rendang, the bakmi with wonton and char siu, and even the bakmi goreng (fried noodles). I'd have to say this one's my favourite so far though - bakmi ayam rica, noodles with spicy sambal chicken. They also do rice dishes like nasi padang (a variety of mixed dishes, 1 meat, 2 veg, all to be eaten together) and rice with grilled short rib. I still think the noodles here are the must order though. I haven't made the trip over in a couple of months. What's new? The front entrance of their shop has had a complete makeover to now feature a martabak stationl One of Indonesia's well-known martabak shops (Martabak Pecenongan 78, with over 400 stores across Indo) has branched into Sydney via Enjoy Mie's shop. If you haven't seen martabak manis before, it's a really thick sweet pancake, heavily buttered and with filling inside. You can choose normal or pandan flavour, and it could be anything from chocolate, cheese, condensed milk, peanuts and more inside there. Ask for the special and you'll get all of the above LMAO but if you're not a sweet tooth like me, it's bewildering seeing everything go in. I would recommend to maybe just get one topping I'd go for maybe chocolate or durian next time. Martabak manis is a really beloved food in Indonesia actually.

Everyone I met over there had memories of eating martabak as a child, so it's a very popular comfort...

I was looking forward to bakmi for the whole week and was quite disappointed with my experience - the service really lets down the quality of the food. It was our first time coming on a weekend and when we arrived it was bustling but not busy. We placed our order and my mother's arrived promptly but after 20 minutes of waiting we asked if my dish would come soon. Turns out my dish was never ordered on the system, despite the lady asking us whether I wanted chicken or pork for my bowl. The lady at the counter then came to our table to check we wanted to add bakmie to the order, we said yes, and she quickly left our table. After another 15 minutes of waiting, watching everyone around us get their dishes, we asked again if it was being made and once again it had not been put into the system because apparently she said 'please come to the counter to pay'. Neither me nor my mother heard her say anything - by this point it was rather full but at any point the lady could come to our table again to make sure we paid, or bring the eftpos machine to us. The service here was incredibly disappointing, please train your staff to communicate better: Make sure orders are communicated and checked before the customer leaves the counter, speak clearly when instructing customers to do something (non-verbal cues if the place is busy). We were not the only table that had issues with ordering, beside us they never had their drink ordered, behind us they brought out the wrong dish. These things aren't that hard, wait staff in Indonesia can do better than this. By the time the food arrived I had lost my appetite and we needed to be someplace else. Also there was a hair in it. You've lost an Indonesian customer...

(3.5 stars) With a name like Enjoy Mie it’s probably obvious that you should visit to eat noodles, however I sought out this Indonesian restaurant with a hankering for sate. After climbing a short flight of stairs up from Sussex Street, you enter a light and spacious restaurant. Ordering takes place at the counter from a large, photo-illustrated menu card, while table choices are left up to you. Captured in the name (but not the photo) sate ayam lontong ($16.90) presents five chicken sate with lantong (steamed rice cakes) under a rich and nutty peanut sauce. The intensity is cut by a crisp, raw sambal with tiny red bullet chillies. The pork belly version of the same dish—sate babi lontong ($16.90)—switches out the peanut-based sauce for a less tasty sticky-sweet soy-based glaze but has more char.

As for the noodles, bakmi komplit ($18.50) gives you a bowl of Chinese-style wheat noodles with meat (either diced chook or minced pork), a pork wonton, beef balls, a braised soy egg, bean sprouts and blanched greens with a simple fried onion-enhanced broth passed separately. You can also get a complete rice-based meal, like nasi komplit rendang ($18.90), where a dark, heavily reduced coconut-based beef curry tasting strongly of star anise is arranged around a mound of rice with gado dado, sambal-topped lightly fried egg (sambal telur), raw vegetables and colourful cassava crackers. There’s no booze available, but you can get poppers of Teh Kotak ($3.50) or tall glasses of es kelapa cincau ($7.90) where grass jelly, young coconut, and coconut water...