Join the Newport Jaycees for our international Dinner at Tropika Malaysian & Thai Restaurant. New members, prospective members, guests and friends are welcome.

This stylish restaurant features classic Malay cooking, including Indian-inspired roti appetizers as well as an array of seafood, noodles, chicken, meat, and vegetarian dishes.

According to a review in the L.A. Times, "Notable entrees include rendang lamb, a spectacularly seasoned dry red curry that clings to every bite of the meat. Pangan fish, smothered in a lemony chile sauce, is cooked in a banana leaf that helps infuse the fish with the sauce's flavor; the restaurant offers a choice of striped bass or sea bass. Steamed Hainan chicken and its broth-cooked rice is a dish for chicken purists; simple yet imbued with intense flavor. Nasi lemak, a classic combo akin to a Japanese bento but with Southeast Asian flavors, features fragrant coconut milk-cooked rice topped with fried rendang chicken." Also on the menu is "asam laksa, a noodle soup that is to Malaysia what pho is to Vietnam."

For those who are craving Thai food, the restaurant also offers pad thai, tom yum soup, and thai curry dishes.

Desserts are "Southeast Asian classics: sweetened black sticky rice under warm coconut milk; shaved ice topped with sweet condensed milk, red beans and corn."

For more information, visit Tropika's Website at www.tropika.com