A Ramadhan Buffet At Sari Indah

I went to the restaurant when it first opened last year in 2005. The food was great as they serve Minang style cooking. As this restaurant is the first one in Malaysia, the main branch is in Indonesia, I find it very classy for a restaurant which serve “rice and fish” meal (common food for Malay taste). The ala carte was a bit pricey compared to the same kind of dishes you can have at the road side stalls or normal restaurant, but the service and the ambience was very,very good. Can say that for a rice shop, this one is a fine dining restaurant in its own class.

So this year, while shopping at Alamanda for Hari Raya celebration, we decided to have a look at the restaurant again. Good thing that they are having a buffet promotion with the price of MYR32 nett per person. Considering how much they charge per plate of dish, we quickly made up our mind to break our fast at the restaurant. Almost all their special dishes were served at the buffet table plus several others. With the hiking price of petrol and rising cost of everything in Malaysia at the moment, buffet price of RM32 nett is considered very affordable. From my survey, for this year, most of renowned hotels in KL offer buffet at the price of RM70++ and sometimes the food was not that tasty. I certainly did not regret spending that much that evening since I managed to gobble down almost all the dishes served, mind you, everything in tiny little portion.

The service is still very, very good despite many patrons and almost full house that evening. The waitress kept on filling my glass of plain ice drink and quickly but politely clear up the plates when I was done eating. For someone who spend most of the time cleaning own plates at the kitchen sink day after day, it was really a relief to be waited and treated like a princess.

I will dine again at Sari Indah, especially next time when I have expatriate friends coming over and would like to try traditional spicy Malaysian (Indonesian style of cooking) food.