Uncle Fung Borneo Eatery

Indonesian, Malaysian and Singaporean restaurants are hard to find in Orange County, and really good ones are even rarer. Originally from LA with several locations in LA and Orange Counties, Buena Park’s Uncle Fung Borneo Eatery was the closest to great one could come without driving to and through Los Angeles.

Their generally excellent chicken sate has the characteristic char and earthy soy-peanut sauce you’d expect from a street stall in Singapore, and is worth ordering for certain, especially if you haven’t had that style of sate before. Similarly, roti prata bread/pancakes are textbook, served with a light curry dip on the side.

Kari penyet combines a Javanese-style fried cornish hen – not particularly memorable in any way – with a bowl-sized portion of rice (curry, coconut, or white as you prefer) and sambal for mixing or dipping. A hearty, nicely loaded Singapore fried rice includes shrimp, char siu pork, and slices of fish cake, in addition to scallions, egg, and cabbage. Similar pork and fish cake top homemade egg noodles in the Hakka Mie, served dry with broth on the side.