Malai Thai Cuisine wants you to come back for more

The stir-fried crab in yellow curry is pleasant, but lacks depth.

Anyone who has lived overseas and had intense cravings for food from home can quite easily understand what led Thai native Nirunchala Puntong to open Malai Thai Cuisine. Nirunchala is a lovely lady who loves the food of her homeland. When she came to Malaysia, she longed for a taste of home but found that none of the food at the Thai restaurants she tried matched the real deal.

“I tried many Thai restaurants but when I ate the food, I felt disappointed with the taste, because I love to eat and I know what is good and what is bad. So when I ate Thai food here, I felt, ‘This is not Thai, it’s not authentic,’” she says.