Singapore Eat: Al-Buhari Restaurant Indian-Muslim Food @ Bukit Batok West

Rick
May 12
2 min read

Updated: May 24

Al-Buhari Restaurant is an Indian-Muslim food stall serving a wide range of Indian and Malay food. The restaurant chain has several outlets in Singapore with 3 of them in Bukit Batok, including the 3-unit outlet in Aces League 447 Coffee Shop in Bukit Batok West.

Al-Buhari has a lot of dishes to offer, including nasi lemak, mee soto, lontong, tandoori chicken, briyani rice, satays, roti prata, murtabak, naan, noodle dishes, mutton soup, and many more.

The Nasi Briyani (Mutton) — available with chicken and fish too — is served with generous amount of mutton in curry sauce, a hard-boiled egg with sambal chilli and a side of fresh salad (red carrot, cucumber, shallot) on spiced long-grain basmati rice. The long-grain basmati rice may seem to be a lot but is actually one normal serving and has nice texture. The meaty mutton has few bones and tender with nice flavours and just-nice spiciness. Mutton briyani rice has always been a favourite of mine.

Al-Buhari Restaurant: Nasi Briyani (Mutton)

The Plain Roti Prata (2 pcs) is served freshly-cooked on order with a curry sauce that is not watery. The roti prata is nicely done with crispy outer layer and slight chewiness in the inner layers. This is nice as a light meal or as a staple replacement to go with other dishes.

Al-Buhari Restaurant: Plain Prata (2 pcs)

The Mutton Soup is a big bowl of soup with quite some amount of mutton. The spicy soup, sprinkled with minced peanuts, is concocted from many spices including turmeric, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, pepper, etc. It has a stronger turmeric-pepper taste that gives the spiciness. The lean mutton is very tender with no gamey taste — personally, I prefer mutton to retain some gamey flavour. The flavourful soup can be paired with roti prata.