Belachan Restaurant

The food is average. They don’t prepare Malaysian food well. However, it is convenient to stop by in the

I don’t get why people are flipping out over small things.
But I’m new to malaysian food so I thought it was pretty good for the price.
Ok, this place is pretty cheap. Not like Vanessa’s or fast food, but cheap for a sit down meal. The food is tasty (again, not super fancy). The roti thing was pretty good. I don’t like thick breads and stuff so this was so tasty (just used the extra curry on mah rice: D) Got the chili intestines? YUM. Fried pieces of fat… droooool. My arteries are crying but my tummy is so happy. Oh and the ong choy? Good veggie. Tastyy ^^
Recap. I enjoyed the meal throughly.
However, my only gripe would be the drinks. The special coconut, lychee, rambutan drinks are just the canned fruits with the canned fruit syrup, ice and water. That is a complete rip off at 3 bucks a pop. I could just buy a can for less than that -.-

Only thing good about this place is the tofu but everything else was pretty standard Malaysian food in an Asian neighborhood. The Roti Canai here is very crispy which is not a good thing because it gets too flaky to dip in the curry. It was like eating cardboard. Wouldn’t come here again, there are better restaurants in the neighborhood.

Best Hainan chicken with rice! Service is pretty good as well :)

Decent, but I wouldn’t say its authentic Malaysian food.

Really? I was born and raised in Singapore and still search out the restaurants of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia here in NYC. I was really excited to read the reviews here and made it to Belachan as soon and I could. To say I was disappointed was an understatement.
I started out with the Gado-​Gado. I completely agree with Andy D. and his review. The salad was slathered with a gloppy peanut sauce. Unfortunately, the vegetables were overdone and was pretty soggy as well. My choice for my entrée was the Hainanese Chicken. Part of what makes this dish so tasty is the chicken flavored rice made with ginger and sesame oil. Unfortunately Belachan only serves it with plain white rice. The chicken was alright, but nothing spectacular. Without the accompaniment of the chicken flavored rice, the dish was pretty bland.
I decided to order some take-​out for dinner the next night and thought I should give Belachan another chance but with a contrasting dish. I ordered the Achat for an appetizer and the Rendang for an entrée. The Achat was actually not bad, but I have to admit, the achat at Nonya was much better. The rendang was pretty disgusting. The cut of beef that they used was pretty fatty and I couldn’t swallow more than half of the dish because it was mostly connective tissue. I had also ordered a large white rice to accompany it. When I opened the container it was only half full.
Needless to say, I won’t be going back.

I only tried the Roti Canai and a curry noodle. They were both fine, nothing spectacular. The curry noodle was thick, like a lo mein rather than a thin egg noodle which is more common. But the curry was really good although a bit oily but I slurped it up. We came here because Thanh Da was closing for the night. I would go back if that happens again. There’s an extensive menu of things to try. Typically, I go to Nyonya for Malaysian where the food doesn’t seem so heavy.

Having been to Malaysia and Singapore a couple of times now, I was ready to look for a Malaysian restaurant to satisfy my nostalgic needs. Upon recommendation from a Malaysian friend who has been searching for an alternative to her tasty cooking for the last five years, she found Belachan in Brooklyn’s Chinatown.
On my first expedition to Chinatown-​Brooklyn, I was greeted with the smell of meat on a stick like the night markets in Taiwan. This was a good first sign. The second good sign that my husband and I were on the right track was seeing Flying Dragon Supermarket (at least that’s what it’s called in Mandarin) when we stepped out onto the street. The third good sign was that most of the people on the street were making their way to the same restaurant and going in our direction.
As soon as we walked in, we were seated even though the place looked packed, there was still one space for us. We were immediately given tea to warm us up and menus. The service was quick and came by often. And, when you go, you will see the amazing quickness with which they can clear a table and wipe it down.
We started with the Roti Canai which was flaky and delicate. The curry was a delicious compliment, but be aware that the chicken comes with bones. The curry was so tasty that my husband started dunking some of his noodles from his entrée into the curry just as a conduit for the sauce.
We followed up the appetizer with the Hakka Ban Mee (under the Laksa section of the menu) in honor of my father’s family and the Hokkien noodles in honor of my mother’s family. For $ 4.95, my husband received a huge bowl of wide noodle soup. It was fragrant with tiny fish, ground pork, and five spice. Absolutely lip smacking! He normally doesn’t finish all of the broth in a noodle soup, but he was tipping the bowl to get every last drop.
My Hokkien noodles were thicker than I was expecting, but the aroma of the heat of the wok having cooked into each individual ingredient in the dish made the noodle thickness trivial. Squid, shrimp, thinly sliced fish cake, pork, and green veg rounded out the noodles in a dark brown sauce making it wonderfully slurpable. When I asked for chilis to go with my dish, they brought out lovely diced green chilis (the Thai kind) in a splash of soy sauce. Nice heat!
We ordered a side of Hainanese chicken, too, which was just like what I had at a roadside stand in Kuala Lumpur. We didn’t order it with the rice, just the chicken. We ended up taking it home because we wanted to save some room for dessert. We rounded out the meal by splitting a burbur chacha. The taro, yams, and tapioca pearls in hot coconut milk really finished out the meal nicely and kept us warm all the way back to the train.
We spent about $ 24.20 total on the meal for the two of us, but honestly, we could have just as well spent $ 10 between the two of us for dinner and still walked away deliciously full.
The only drawback was there seemed to be additional dishes available for the lunch specials which I could not find on the dinner menu like the Nasi Lemak.

I have been to almost every Malaysian Restaurant I could find in Brooklyn and Chinatown Manhattan and Flushing Queens. Belachan restaurant is actually one of my favorites top 3 Malaysian Restaurants. Having my mom growing up in Malaysia, she knows what good and whats not.
The Roti Canai I do like alot because of the curry chicken sauce which is actually one of the spiciest I have had from these restaurants. I don’t find the bread itself as bad as some places I have tried it, what makes it is the sauce itself.
Satay chicken is one of my favorite appetizers, which I do recommend out of the three satay choices. Only issue you might see if this place Deep Fried it rather then grill it like the way Nyonya/​Penang.
Me and my family always get the Hockien Noodle from this place, I find theirs the best in Brooklyn. Best is the pieces of fried pork fat they throw on-​top of the dish which is my favorite part.
My favorite is the Lo-​Mein (Egg Soup Style) which I find is the best in NYC. Pearl Noddle, Squid, Cabbage, fried pork fat and egg-​drop-​like soup, I love it here.
Out of the 4 malaysian restaurants currently located on 8ave, I find this the best out of the 4.
Only complaint I have is the lobak isn’t that good compare to Nyonyas.

What a terrible, terrible meal. After the rave the first review gave, I was excited… and this was barely edible.
The Roti Canai curry was okay. Okay. But this is a dish that should fill you with awe, and wonder, and amazing, glorious, sensational chicken curry. «Just okay» isn’t enough. It’s terrible! This roti was a chore to rip, like thin cardboard to the touch, and lacking any flavor. The weak curry sauce didn’t add much.
The Gado Gado would have been acceptable, but was drenched in peanut sauce, as if to mask the boredom that suffered beneath. And while the deep fried prawn heads & tails buried inside were interesting, they really weren’t too neccessary.
Beef Rendang is so often a powerful, pungent, bold dish. The version here was ugly and weak-knee’d. Far from being thick, reduced, and full of beef, it was loose, watery, and full of stomach (literally, not figuratively.)
And the Hainan Chicken? Could/​should have been simple, with a rich & divine sauce, but was a slapped-​together plate of thick, chewy skin and plenty of bone, and doused in soy sauce. The coconut rice wasn’t anything to write home about either. At least it gave something inoffensive to fill up on.
I just realized we actually never got the Char Keoy Teow. It evidently wasn’t missed.
I’d *definitely* stick with Redang Island over on 8^th Ave, or New Malaysia, Nyonya, or maybe even Skyway in the city. But not Belachan. Definitely not Belachan.

While its cousin Nyonya, with locations in Sunset Park and Soho, gets all of the attention of Malaysian food lovers everywhere, I think they have some serious competition in Belachan. (Drum Roll, please) Belachan has the best Mayaysian food I’ve ever had. I don’t say this lightly; I’ve been to at least six different Malaysian restaurants in New York City. Those on the upper end of quality, such as Nyonya, are a fantastic blend of Indian and Chinese flavors. But Belachan ups the ante. The spicy was very spicy. The coconut flavors in the excellent Laksa soup were enhanced. The «needle noodles» were just the right amount of chewy and doughy. And the highlight for me, the hainanese chicken, is actually good enough to rival Flor De Mayo (blasphemy, I know). Go to Belachan. You won’t regret it.