Excellent, Inexpensive New Malaysian Restaurant Opens In The East Village View all 10
The East Village has been hit pretty hard recently with a slew of restaurant closures and hibernations (most painfully, Superiority Burger), but as has been the case throughout the entire pandemic, new spots keep opening up to ease some of the sting. The latest arrival worth getting excited over: Medan Pasar, a terrific Malaysian restaurant on East 7th Street.
The chef and owner here is Chuan Tan, who was born in Kuala Lumpur, grew up in Singapore, and has been living in America for about 20 years, currently in Elmhurst. Tan has experience running restaurants in fact, he currently manages three other spots in New Jersey but Medan Pasar is his first in the city, and the first that serves the cuisine of his birthplace. Tran signed the lease for the space last February, but COVID-related construction delays, plus the usual permit difficulties, meant it took almost an entire ye