Inle Myanmar Restaurant (Marina Square)

I've never had Burmese food so I decided to check this out after reading a few reviews.

FOOD
What we ordered (for 2)

1 x curry chicken with butter rice
1 x salted fish fried rice
1 x pork sausage
1 x seafood glass noodle salad
2 drinks + 1 dessert

Sadly, the pennyworth salad which almost everyone raved about was sold out, so I settled for the seafood glass noodle salad. It was surprisingly good, moist in a refreshingly spicy sauce. The prawn was fresh and the squid tender.

The pork sausage was disappointing though. Do not be fooled by the photograph on the menu. The portion served for a 1 person set meal was 5 thin pieces, but that was more than sufficient for the dry pork pieces in a greasy batter.

Butter rice was good, but the curry chicken was in a sauce which was 9 parts chilli oil and 1 part curry. The best part is the soup which comes with the dish. Similar to tomyam but its a clear soup and flavoured slightly differently.

Salted fish fried rice is the kind you find in the tze char stalls, flavourful enough but the salted fish pieces are too big and tough.

Overall: Similar to thai (no, not thai express), but better

SERVICE
The waiter sat us at a side table for 2 but the table could hardly hold all the dishes for the set meal for 1person x2. Do push for the more comfy booth tables if you are with company. Other than the small table, the service was excellent and speedy. The staff (Burmese perhaps?) tries hard to understand our singlish and remains speedy and alert even though the restaurant was almost full.

2nd visit to inle myammar, this time is with my mum.

We ordered :

1x pickled tea leaves salad
1x pennywort salad
1x fried gourd and tofu fritters
1x myammar coffee
1x myammar tea

The salad arrived shortly. I requested for the ommission of peanuts yet i can still see it on my pennywort salad. I do not noe what is pennywort but this is still as tasty as before. The pickled tea leaves salad is highly recommended. It consists of dried shrimps, peanuts, sesame seeds, fried broad beans, myammar tea leaves, lime, chilli padi and some parsley. It taste a little sourish due to the lime. The taste is quite unique as i have not try it before. The broad beans were lightly fried and it was very crunchy.

Deep-fried gourd, i thought it was bitter gourd instead.
The fried gourd looks like a banana fritter but it is actually a slice of hairy gourd, coated with some flour and deep-fried. According to the waiter there, it is a popular food in myammar cuisine.

Todu fritters, made from chickpea flour is a triangular pc of fritter. It is almost taste-less when eating on it's own. You have to dip it into the special tamarind dip in order to enjoy the flavour. . They are crispy outside and soft inside. My burmese friend love it alot.

Myammar coffee taste more like malaysia white coffee. It is quite fragrant with strong aroma of milk and coffee. The myammar tea taste like ordinary chinese tea.

The service here is friendly. Although some of the waiter could not speak or understand english very well, we can still communicate with them by pointing at the pictures from the menu and they can recommend the popular dishes to us.

None of us have been to Myanmar or had Myanmise food, we've decided to try something unusual. The menu reminded us of Thai Express, the usual salads, noodles and rice combi.

We were wrong, they were better. The pennyworth salad was so small but surprisingly filling. The dressing was bursting with flavours, well complemented with the fried soya beans.

The Gourd Fritter and Pork Sausage were less exciting compared to the simple salad.

To top it off, I have to say they have one of the best Chendol I've tried. The coconut were creamy and fragrant. The portion of the Gula Melaka were in the right amount. Lastly, the green jelly were boiled to perfection. Soft texture that melts almost instantly in the mouth.

All in all, the meal was good in the beginning and the end. I can't wait to try the Tea Leave Salad which was recommended in the earlier reviews.

Btw, did I mention the service was great as the staff were attentive and patient :)

I tired their set lunch

First is the quantity is the side dish is pathetically small.

Second, their dishes does not come put hot, but only warm. It give the cue as if they only microwave heat it.

Lastly, this restaurant 100% doesn't fit my taste.

Sorry, but I believe it doesn't worth the high rating that previous people have reviewed.

Am feeling tired of the usual Western/Italian/Japanese and ready for something different.
Decided to give the new outlet at Marina Square a try after reading the reviews in the Sunday papers.
Food is kinda Thai/Vietnamese-like and good for sharing - you can try many dishes as serving-size is neither too huge nor too little.

Ambience: Average. Area is spacious but the chairs are kinda hard and not the comfy, plush type. So it may not be very comfortable to sit for a long period. On a sat afternoon at ~2 pm, our group of 4 were the only diners there and aircon felt v cold after abt half an hour. Other than that, no major complaints.

Service: Friendly and attentive.

Food: We ordered the set meal which was very good value-for-money. $13.80 for appetizer+main+drink. Presentation of food was inviting.

What we liked: Gourd Fritters , Fried Rice , Curry Set.
I esp liked the Pennywort salad and Tea Leave salad - interesting taste !
What we did not like as much: Vermicilli salad. It certainly looked like the picture , but the vermicilli was very dry and somehow tasted cooked but still wiry. Quite a disappointment.

Overall a good experience , I may be back to try more as the menu has lots of other dishes like beef , noodles etc

I've never had Myanmar food before coz one i've never been to Myanmar and two.. is there even myanmar food in Singapore?!?!? Call me mountain tortoise but surprisingly there is! It's wonderful tat inle has restaurants in peninsula plaza and marina sq and an affordable authentic menu thus bringing myanmar cuisine and culture closer into the hearts (n fat tummies) of Singaporeans!

Honestly i might not have tried it out if not for e fact i saw it on Makansutra...I've tasted Thai, Cambodian n Viet food but not their close neighbour Myanmar's.. Being quite an adventurous eater (hehe self-claimed can?).. i decided to grab another adventurous eater to check out inle!

The resto is beautifully decorated with a casual yet chirpy feel with a beautiful menu as well (tink thai express).. There's a wide variety of makans on offer... from appetizers to rice n noodles dishes to desserts n drinks! Absolutely reasonably priced makes it an attractive dining option esp in this financial turmoil!

To my delight, there's even a very affordable set dinner which includes an appetizer a main n a drink priced at $12.90+ only! with an additional $2 u could have a dessert as well! For my set i ordered e fried gourd, seafood glass noodle and tamarind juice while my friend had e pork sausage, butter rice with myanmar pork curry and myanmar hot milk tea.. for juz $12.90 each...it's cheap! We decided to share our feast and hence added another must-try dish - e moun hin ga..

The appetizers were a hit and a miss.. e fried gourds fritters were surprisingly a hit! okie fried gourd??? haha but since e much acclaimed century egg salad is out (so sad..) it turned out to b a delight! e refreshing sweet gourd balance out e spicy fish gravy dip nicely hence making it a yum! do order this! e pork sausage is a miss... too tough and tasteless.. dun bother ...

The mains were e surprise delights.. e seafood glass noodles had e wok hei taste to it..cool! it's not bad but not that great either.. unfair but i tink thai express one is better..e butter rice with myanmar pork curry is quite nice.. although pork is a little tough n e curry slight oily.. e dry curry is quite yummy n goes well with e butter rice! quite appetizing!

A must-try is the moun hin ga ($6.50)! a representation of true-blue traditional myanmar fare.. do not miss out on this noodles in fish gravy laden with banana tree stems eggs n fish cakes.. e taste is a total surprise! it looks ..erm weird but surprisingly it tasted like penang laksa to me while like mee soto to my friend! haha.. but might b good idea to share this dish instead..

Overall it's quite a pleasant surprise although i do not know wat to expect in e 1st place.. Not too sure if i would return but do give myanmar cuisine a try n oh the myanmar milk tea n tamarind juice is quite nice as well!

As usual, we were wandering around on a Sunday trying to find a place in Marina Sq for lunch, when we chanced upon the newly opened Inle Myanmar restaurant. It's taken over what used to be Asian Kitchen.

The place is done up very simply. The place was pretty empty when we got there, as it was only 11.30am. We got served promptly, and the waitstaff appeared quite cheerful.

Being unfamiliar with the menu & cuisine, we were glad that the menu had fairly detailed explanations of what went into the dishes. Thanks to my utterly terrible memory, I cannot remember the exact Burmese names of the dishes we ordered, but I do remember they were quite good!

I had the Seafood Glass Noodles. This was said to be spicy, but really was only mildly spicy at best. The noodles were nicely fried and had 'wok hei', and the prawns were decent. The portion of seafood was quite generous, but the portion of noodles was a tad small.

My son had the Shwe Taung Khau Hswe, which consisted of thick yellow noodles in sauce, with some 'kropok'-like crackers, chicken, egg, and a powder that tasted like it came from mung beans. You're supposed to mix it all up. After mixing, it was surprisingly good! Quite tasty, and the bean powder gave it some fullness. It was vaguely akin to mee rebus, if I could draw an analogy. It got a bit 'jelak' midway thru, but quite enjoyable. My daughter had the yellow bean fried rice, which had little chickpeas together with the fried rice. She liked it! And er, I can't remember what my wife had, but her dish wasn't particularly outstanding.

I had the Myanmar Milk Tea, which was made from imported Burmese tea leaves. OK lah, so-so. The tea was reasonably strong, but tasted like a blend between Assam and high-grown Ceylon... like English Breakfast but without the maltiness of the Assam.

Prices were very reasonable, averaging $7-8 per dish. Service was a little spotty (they forgot my wife's dish) but made up for it with tremendous good cheer (the waiters were perpetually smiling) and politeness. Overall, a worthy alternative to the mid-priced eateries like ThaiExpress, and with a more subtle range of flavours than Thai.