A LI YAA – Kuala Lumpur

We celebrated our first day of Chinese New Year 2025 lunch at Aliyaa, a restaurant specialized in authentic Sri Lankan cuisine. Having looked through the menu earlier, we quickly ordered what each of us wanted. For drinks, hubby and I had their masala tea. The sugar packs are at the side to put based on your own liking. Evelyn had the Ceylon Ginger Tea. We started with Fish Cutlets which were really delicious when paired with its sauce. Next came the Nandu rasam. Unlike normal rasam, it is made with blue swimmers crab and is slightly spicy. I love this. For mains, we ordered the Crab Meat cooked in Jaffna style (so yummy, and I can't have enough), and Mutton Paal Poriyal (tender mutton cooked with rich and creamy coconut milk sauce and aromatic spices). For veggies, we had the Amma's Eggplant Salad to go with the mains. We had these with string hoppers and roti. We ended our meal with dessert - sweet appam. We really enjoyed the food and the service rendered by the staff.

We had dinner with some great friends here. They absolutely loved it. The starter was fried vegetable cutlets which was crispy and tasfully done . We had the vegetarian set which came with a variety of perfectly cooked items from beetroot, drum stick sothi, onion and garlic with fenugreek curry, coconut chambol , mango rasam, bitter gourd , Amma’s eggplant pal curry and leek stir fry. The Jaffna crab curry and the mutton poriyal was excellent too, we also had the chicken curry . For dessert we had the best appam ever and wattalapam was very good too . The set came with rice and red rice string hoppers. We had the soft red rice Puttu with the coconut chambol which complemented the dining experience. For drinks we had the lychee watermelon juice and blended coconut which was delicious. The waiters were very hospitable and the ambience was superb too

Very tasty n auténticoLove the crab meat curry v juicy & tender!Butter gourd curry was slightly bitter but still goodEggplant dish was good and interesting.Good to know many plant based vegetarian optionsThanks heaps👍

Lovely place to entertain and enjoy Sri Lankan cuisine with family & friends. Food was delicious and presented in a very refined manner. Service staff made one feel very welcome and comfortable. Kudos to the team.

I have been here twice. The food is very nice. Quiet ambiance. Ask the waiter for suggestions. Usually they are very friendly. They have decent vegetarian options. The drumstick rasam was very nice. The wattalappam was nice but can be a bit too much for one person.