Nagaria Steak House at Taiping (龙城餐厅)

Taiping, a.k.a. "The Town of Rain", has its fair share of local traditional cuisines, Malay, Chinese, Indian, you name it. However, today we take a detour from the ordinary meal, to take on one of the historical steak house in Taiping - Nagaria. This is the first post captured by my newly acquired Fujifilm Finepix X100, a lovely little gem!

1). Located at the intersection between Jalan Pasar and Jalan Ong Paik. (This photo was taken using the built-in ND filter, which reduces my ISO by 3 stops)

2). As with any other traditional Western restaurants, the Set Lunch menu is displayed on the outside of the restaurant. So, what do we have today?

3). This restaurant occupies a corner shop lot, and houses 20 odds tables for dine-in customers. The decoration is pretty simple yet classical as with any other traditional Western restaurants.

4). For the starter, two slices of Buttered Toasted Bread are served promptly after we ordered lunches.

5). Quickly followed by a bowl of Cream of Mushroom. Glad to find that the cream of mushroom doesn't taste like average canned soup. Unfortunately, I accidentally spread too much of pepper on it, ouch..

6). The bread tasted evenly good with the soup or even on its own. Compliment has to be given for the bread, as it is very crunchy and strong taste of butter in it. Simply just nice!

7). For the main course, we are given a choice of Sesame Seed Chicken, Piri-piri Fish or Sweet & Sour Fish Rice for the set lunch. Guess which we choose? The Sesame Seed Chicken, of course.

8). Never tried a chicken chop, which is served thin as paper, and dry like a hay. Sesame seeds are sprinkled all over the chicken chop and deep fried into golden crispy finish. The aroma given by the sesame seeds did make the taste more appetizing, however the portion is just too small for me. With the aid of my favourite sauce, Tomato Sauce, I am able to finish it in minutes.

9). After main course, we are given a choice for the dessert, either a cup of tea / coffee and a scoop of ice-cream OR 2 scoops of ice-creams. Why not take the best deal of both?! A cup of tea for me, please! Two sachets of Coffeemate creamer and White Sugar each are given. 

10). As for the ice-cream, too bad we weren't given a choice for the scoops of ice-cream. Otherwise, we will take all the yam flavours they have.

11). For the price of RM9.50 without any taxes, the set lunch offers rather irresistible price, as compared with other ala carte dishes on the menu. However, a rather disappointing subsequent visit to the restaurant, after the first visit last year. Ought to come back to try other ala carte dishes to test real culinary skills of the chef, who acquired numerous certificates as displayed over the cashier.

Nagaria Steak House Restaurant (龙城餐厅)

Address : 61, Jalan Pasar, 34000 Taiping, Perak, Malaysia.

Business hours : 12.00pm - 11.00pm daily

Tel. : 05-8069032 / 019-5417948

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