Planet Sambal Cafe
There’s a new cafe in town, Planet Sambal. It is our new lunch spot and it operates 24 hours a day! Located in Padungan, sitting in between Ipanema and Grappa. Good spot I must say, as it can feed the night clubbers late at night or very early in the morning! 
Planet Sambal Cafe
I like the interior very much. Simple, modern, chic and retro yet sophisticated. I like the color combination used here; white, black and pink. I like the lightings.
Spot anyone familiar?
I like their decorations and furnishings and I especially like the table mat.
The cafe serves mainly local cuisines. There are various types of food to pick from. From Fastfood to slowfood ordering from the menu.
Varieties of food at the Fastfood counter
If you have short lunch hour like mine which is 1 hour only, go for the fastfood. Unless you have plenty of free time to spare and patience to wait, go ahead and order from menu – only applicable during peak hours like Lunch.
By the way, it is self service at the fastfood counter. You scoop your own dish.
My RM7.50 lunch plate
This plate of lunch, my friends, costs me RM7.50 for steamed plain rice served with Sambal Sotong, Beef Rendang and pickles. Some say it’s expensive, I’d say it’s worth it.
The Sambal Sotong is superb! The sambal sauce is like the nasi lemak sambal and it’s SPICY!! I hate sambal which is not spicy at all or tadly spicy. I want SPICY! *in the SPARTAAA tone* Rating this at 8.5/10
The Beef Rendang is delicious!! Savouring the tender and succulent beef. The rendang is just that good. Rating this at 8/10
Yummylicious Sambal Sotong and Beef Rendang. My fav
Ice Nescafe @ RM2.50
Iced drinks are pricier than Kopitiam but the hot drinks are ranged from RM1.50 and of big cups.
Hate to say but their service is extremely slow. A colleague of mine ordered Mee Goreng and she waited for more than 45 minutes and her noodles never came. We accompanied waiting with her even after we finished our lunch. In the end up, she gave up waiting and we left with her empty stomache as we need to rush back to office.
Menu #1
There were many pages from the menu but I only select 2 menu pichas to share. Hey, I don’t want to risk my head on the plate showing everything they have. Pay a visit to experience the food here.
Menu #2
The food here are affordable and reasonable plus the portion is pretty big. How do I know even when my colleague ditched her meal after the long wait? Well, I peeped on the neighbour tables. Hehehe..
For Project 365: Day 69 June 4, 2009
Hopefully the food quality maintains and service improves, so I can enjoy these yummilicious food again on my next visit.
aiyo.. spicy!!! i think i m goin to sweat like a pig! muahahaha!!!
but i think rm 7.50 is ok for those rendang n sotong lo.. wad chenky had! hahaha!!
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annna Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Yup.. Hot & Spicy food. *slurps* I too think the price is reasonable for the food I took.
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I just went there just now. One of the male staff was in a bad mood when taking order and slam food and drinks on my table.
The food was so so but I don’t feel I should pay for the price since the service was suck big time due to staff attitude problem.
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annna Reply:
July 1st, 2009 at 12:04 am
OOo~ Should give him “the look”.
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Been there last night..
PAid Rm27.50 including drinks for 2 persons
We had the fast food, drink was just cola and Iced Nescafe..
Expensive!!
Cost about RM11.30 per plate!!
The worst thing was..
I had food poisoning thereafter..
I had the masak merah chicken and the tomatoes had the funny smell
The gravy for the curry chicken also tasted funny..
I told my friend but he said that was the taste of the HERBS!!
Bull shit!!
My tummy pain lasted till today!!
NO MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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annna Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
You should have gone back and give them feedback on it.
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i haven’t gone to this place before, but my friends did.. i can see that the restaurant’s spending too much on the fancy decorations of the restaurant.. but maybe that’s what people call classy.. from the 2-not-so-good comments i read above, i can give my honest opinion, they should maintain the service and food to maintain the “classy”ness of the restaurant…
but that’s just my opinion la… no one’s perfect though… well… will try go there someday.. hehehehe
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annna Reply:
July 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
The place is as classy as you say it but the service is not classy at all. The food quality and service are like rain in Kuching. Not consistent. =x
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Have u ever operate or run a biz…especially a restaurant? i would love to check it out if u got one….wonder what it is gonna be like…..cant wait to try…becoz u sounded like u have been in the biz for a long time….easy said than done….i couldn’t agree more with azie ‘no one is perfect’…..like u i bet u got defect here n there…:) cheers….
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annna Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Restaurant is a service industry, food is the product. If your product sells well, but service quality is low, your sales is just alright but for how long? If you’re service quality and products are good, you’re doing well.
I agree with Azie. But business is business.
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no business r perfect… sumtime worker make a mistake…by the way thanks 4 coming n please come again
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annna Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I agree with you on that. No business is perfect, but they improve from time to time. Mistakes are mistakes, but repetitive mistakes give bad impression. Just my 2 cents.
I do enjoy the food but sometimes, the service is really unbearable. However, I notice some improvement. Nowadays, the stir fry are served pretty fast.
P/s: I noticed that the nasi lemak sambal is less spicy now
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I totally disagree with u ANNA, your observation gotta be based on one or two visit. I go to PLANET SAMBAL almost everyday as i work nearby. Love their food!! affordable as well. b4 Sambal open, i always eat at a stall behind everrise, and did you know that the charges for nasi campur are almost the same. But SAMBAL provides me with better ambience………….dont kacau my eating place
lai lai hao ze…pu yaw ka cau wo te ti fang….
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annna Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Lol.. you gotta be kidding me. I enjoy the food there as well and I only comment that their service is poor – slow. Just FYI, I lunch there almost every once in a week as my work place is nearby as well!
If it’s your territory, you should’ve yellow tape it then.
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damn
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annna Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
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the building looks lau ya. but the interior really quite good looking. if got waiter slam my food, i will scold the hell out of him, ask the tauke come, and scold him also. Customer is the “king”. btw, an idiot talk bout running biz, if cannot run, dun open pls..
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I work nearby and never go pun… dun like spicy food… have to run for toilet
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annna Reply:
August 5th, 2009 at 12:20 am
hahaha! they have non spicy food too. Hmm.. ur spicy tolerance not that high. Since you work nearby only, next time, lunch together-gether yea..
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Sure, why not. As long as we don’t go to the same place EVERYDAY. There is so much delicious food in town la!
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annna Reply:
August 6th, 2009 at 9:16 am
But have to be within walking distance. I don’t park my car near office building. LOL
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i like the nasi lemak one
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annna Reply:
August 6th, 2009 at 9:21 am
I like the sambal sotong
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I’ve been there few times too and sometimes their service is good.. and sometimes they’re not.. but whatever it is.. If one wants to improve, then must know how to accept the feedback given by those who have visited, no matter good or bad !!
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annna Reply:
August 6th, 2009 at 9:24 am
*nods nods*
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Am thinking of going here for lunch today!
Have walked past it many times, it often looks busy and it has a stylish design, so hopefully the food is also good
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annna Reply:
October 15th, 2009 at 9:06 am
The food is not bad, price wise – affordable.
If you’re in a hurry and looking for a quick lunch, you can try their fastfood.
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I tried it today! Had the nasi goreng planet sambal – it was ok, but not a great dish, just average i’d say. Nice interior and style to the place but as other people have also said, staff attitude is not good, most of them seem to be pretty damn miserable. Price wise its ok too, my friend had the laksa special but prefers the one at Green hill corner
Might go back here again sometime, but with so many other good eating options in Kuching it might be a while.
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last nite,went there and wait for ~1 1/2 hr for food…until i finish mine…my sista’s order still not yet come….when i called the supervisor…he ask me..”so u want to cancel”..isn it better if he told me…” i’ll look into it”..?claimed to have shortage of worker but never say sorry for their slow service…and during that 1 1/2 hour..i just donno how many customer that they succesfully chase away becos of the service.. i think it’s a no-no to let customer left with empty stomach..cos they’ll be grumpy and swear not to go ther ever again…
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Planet Sambal is the best restaurant in kuching…
kak sopia/abang is mun pandei baca balas kan..hahahah
Cheers,
Romzi
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