For someone who has visited Nando's, that one probably cannot help but draw parallels of their Peri Peri sauces to Zac Cafe's (17 Jalan Pinang, tel : 6295 1816) pari pari chicken in terms of flavor. Or at least silently snigger at the similarities in the name. In seriousness, this was actually pretty good. By that, I meant that you get nicely browned half chook with some nice char fragrance on the exterior and meat still juicy on the insides along with a certain spicy sauce slathered over the meat. And the spiciness did pack a punch, albeit, it doesn't knock one out by sheer force. It creeps into potency as you eat along...I also couldn't really complain any about the accompanying toasted "arabic bread" which brought forth a little more than a faint reminder of roti prata and there was nice crunch from the strips of onions on the side as well. Perhaps, there is a good reason why this particular chicken required a 20 minute wait.
This lamb bohari rice which featured braised lamb on a bed of spiced rice was notably large in portion. I'm not too sure how should I feel about it since I did enjoy it and on the same hand, felt that it could have been something better. Like perhaps more fragrance to the rice. The meat wasn't as tender as I had hoped for and neither did it slide of the bone as easily as I would have liked, but these things aside, it really wasn't too bad. What positively got the nod of approval was the hearty samosas which was stuffed with minced beef. They probably beat many similar other puffs sold elsewhere to shame and for the price they cost here, even more rightly so. They would have been awesome for me if there wasn't the faint bits of coriander which I personally preferred without. The only similar snacks that I recall that might have been better than these were the kolkatta shingaras from Mustard.
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