McCafé Kueh Salat Cake - Nonya inspired delicacies transform into a cake (Ongoing Promo)

As per the previous post on McDonald Nasi Lemak burger, McCafé had pushed out their own desserts - Kueh Salat Cake cost $5 for a piece.

Inspired by the rich culinary stories of Nonya delicacies, Kueh Salat Cake consists of pandan mousse, pandan sponge cake, a layer glutinous rice with frozen coconut cream and topped with coconut flakes. The layer of glutinous rice was frozen ice which makes it difficult to cut a piece out. The cake very much tastes like the real Kueh Salat, the only difference is not oily, unlike the authentic nonya kueh.

Now, this is the first dessert I had at McCafé, and I would return for any special desserts or beverages they had in future.

McDonald's Nasi Lemak Burger Meal - Nasi Lemak without Nasi?! (Promo Over)

While this isn’t the first that one of the famous fast food restaurants innovated local flavors (e.g. Kiasu, Rendang beef and salted Egg burgers). In conjunction with Singapore Food Festival 2017 and upcoming National Day, McDonald has decided to recreate one of Singapore’s most iconic dishes which is nasi lemak.

Commonly eaten for any meal, Nasi Lemak is a fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk and accompanied with a range of side dishes such as egg, cucumber, anchovies and most importantly sambal chili.

Their promotion includes Nasi Lemak Burger, Bandung McFizz, Criss Cut Fries, Coconut Pie and Chendol McFlurry, which we are going to review all of them here!

So let's start off with Nasi Lemak Burger, their box is a picture of the banana leaf which normally acts as a tray for Nasi Lemak, let's open up the box!

The burger consists of fried chicken coconut marinated meat patty, fried egg, two cucumber slices, bits of caramelized onions with sweet and spicy sambal sauce in between the semolina buns, but something is missing out from Nasi Lemak - Ikan Bilis, peanuts, and rice! It is just not nasi lemak without them.

Our favorite parts of the burger were the chicken and fried egg, they taste just like the ones you would get from any hawker stalls that sells Nasi Lemak. However what we could not taste is the sambal chili and the egg as the cucumbers and chicken had overpowered them. But the first few bite of the burger will make you think of Nasi Lemak! Must try! but a precaution to share with a person as it might get a bit too full cause of the oiliness of the chicken.

Next is criss cut fries, it is not a stranger to Mcdonald fans, Despite being thicker and larger than normal fries, the Crisscuts had a crispier texture which is sure to please those who preferred non-soggy waffley chips.

This was supposed to taste like Bandung that rose syrup added with Sprite. And it was really spot on, Bandung with Sprite, and it's quite refreshing and new to me! The only con is this is a small cup! Not enough to share around. 

Moving on to Chendol McFlurry, this dessert contains cendol green jelly bits with brownish Gula Melaka sauce with the returning vanilla soft serve! To me it was not cendol-y taste to be named cendol mcflurry, all I tasted is Gula Melaka sweetness, but it was a decent dessert.

Last is coconut pie, my first thought that it might be filled with nata de coco jelly inside the pie like how their apple pie is.

The coconut cream with bits of nata de coco was warm and smooth, you could even bite on coconut meat slice even! So overall, Mcdonald did something right with this promotion. We will look forward to more fancy creations in the future!

McDonalds' Minion Special! - Limited Time only! (Promo Ended)

-=Promotion is over=-

Item I had: Minion set ($7.90), banana Mcflurry oreo ($2.90)

No Introduction needed for this famous fast food restaurant, the letter M with the yellow colored font, even my mom who does not know a single English word know how to pronounce this restaurant so fluently.

For a limited time, to promote the movie "Despicable Me 3", Mcdonald had been very actively promoting Minions themed, so they have these cut potatoes into Minion-shaped potato bites and had made Banana Pies a comeback, what surprised me is they swap the whole soft serve into banana flavored! 

Minions fans will know how much the Minions love bananas, and these menu items are going to drive Singaporeans' mad for banana too. 

The above is what is included in the Minion set - a box of 6 pieces Minions Potatoes, 6 Pieces of Spicy Chicken McNuggets, a banana pie and a drink. 

Each box of Minions potato comes with 6 of minion-shaped, it's actually bit bigger than I expected, and I was thinking, it's a novelty so the taste might not be that good, so my first bite impression of it, it reminds me of those potato balls texture where outside is crispy while inside is very mushy like I'm eating mash potato. I actually like it!

A closer look at one of the minion potato.

Minions dipped into curry sauce, not a good combination though, it still good to mix with garlic chili sauce.

McDonald’s is striking back by releasing the fiery Spicy Chicken McNuggets! The Nuggets as compared to the normal nuggets, it's on a more salty version but those who do not take spicy food, that spiciness will come after you finished the whole piece.

First bite impression of Banana flavored mcflurry Oreo - it tasted very similar to those Banana flavored milk selling in the supermarket.

Overall the switch of soft serve ice cream from Vanilla to Banana flavored is not a bad move, but I would still rather have the tradition vanilla soft serve, but it still a good taste of Banana flavored once in a while. The must try I would say is the Minion potatoes, even if it does not taste good to you, appreciate of how it looks like is another way to support more of these.