Peninsula Malaysian Cuisine
This casual yet stylish Malaysian restaurant fuses both tradition and innovation to create a menu filled with mouthwatering delights. With exotic dishes like spicy Malaysian crab, beef rendang, and fish in banana leaf. Peninsula features a wide variety of fresh fruit smoothies as well, with tropical flavors like mango, banana, honeydew melon, pineapple, coconut and avocado. You and your family can also watch the cooks in action as they prepare your meals in the open-air kitchen. Open seven days a week for lunch and dinner.
Peninsula Malaysian Cuisine
2608 Nicollet Ave. S
Minneapolis, MN 55408
(612) 871-8282
peninsulamalaysiancuisine.com
ChinDian Café
Owner Nina Wong converted her humble East River Market into this outstanding Asian-fusion café in 2007. Blending Indian and Chinese (hence the name) as well as Malaysian and Thai influences, Wong prepares a wide variety of tasty dishes like crispy spring rolls, veggie chow fun and zesty Asian hoagies. Most plates are served over a bed of fluffy white rice and feature fresh ingredients with curry and coconut sauces. ChinDian Café is very casual and family friendly, a great place for a weekday lunch date or afternoon snack. This restaurant is closed on Sundays and Saturday afternoons.
ChinDian Café
1500 East Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis MN 55414
(612) 676-1818
chindiancafe.com
T's Place
T's Place offers an unusual fusion of cooking styles that you'll be hard pressed to find anywhere else: Ethiopian and Southeast Asian. Ethiopian-born chef Tee Belachew teams up with Kin Lee, a native of Singapore, to create a delicious blend of Malaysian, Chinese, Ethiopian, Thai and Indian cuisine that's sure to excite your palate. Enticing dishes like Ethio Asian fried rice, spicy jumbo shrimp, and split red lentils with berbere sauce incorporate the rich diversity of Indo-Asian and African spices at the heart of this highly innovative restaurant. The atmosphere is notably casual and friendly, so it's a great place to take the entire family out for lunch or dinner any day of the week. Takeout and catering are also available.
T's Place
2713 E. Lake St.
Minneapolis, MN 55406
(612) 724-8868
tsplacempls.com
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Charlie Higgins is a writer, translator, editor and social-media consultant based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Originally from Connecticut, Higgins holds bachelor's degrees in media studies and music from Oberlin College. He currently works for the financial inclusion and microenterprise news website Microdinero.
