No doubt, the secret to Pondok Sari Wangi's successful lies in its consistency in providing high quality food and service to each customers.
Over the years, Pondok Sari Wangi has managed to open up more and more branches in the country which currently they have a total of 7 branches! As we all know that to manage just a restaurant, it already requires lots of effort to ensure the business operations run smoothly daily and what's more Pondok Sari Wangi has 7 branches? For this, I really need to take my hat off to the management especially after having a chat with Ridwan, the person in charge of Pondok Sari Wangi, it made me realised how hard is it to manage chained restaurants. One of the most common issues which most chained restaurants found is to maintain the standard of food quality in each branch. Not only this, the management also has to considered bout the food supplies, staffs management & training and many more. It really ain't simple but Pondok Sari Wangi has achieved it :D
Being Ayam Penyet lover, I was surprised when I was told that this dish was firstly introduced by Pondok Sari Wangi to Brunei about decades ago. And for about 7 years, Pondok Sari Wangi had no changed their menu at all and only this year the management had decided to add more dishes to revamp the old menu. I mean, how can a restaurant remain so stable with potential number of customers visiting it over and over again all these years even though it had not introduced new menu? Except for the legendary Thien Thien Chicken Rice, this shall be another legend!
Frankly speaking, it was my very first visit to Pondok Sari Wangi's main branch located at Gadong (just above Mulaut BBQ/Grazie Mauri). I remembered when I was having food marathon with fellow coursemates, we did visit Serusop branch but we only managed to try out its ayam penyet and no other dish; thus this time, I aimed to find out more bout Indonesian food! *shakes shakes*
I was able to try out few newly introduced dishes and I really wanna say that;
"Belum cuba belum tau, sekali cuba, tiap-tiap hari mau!"
Ever since we tasted Pondok Sari wangi's satay, daging rendang, ayam bakar wang solo, iga penyet, we had been drooling over it daily, no bluffing! That's just how yummy it is! Being a beef lover, Ridwan ensures that the beef his restaurants use are at top quality with reasonable pricing and this goes the same to seafood. Thus, if you're a beef person, you must must must try out the Wagyu Beef satay at Pondok Sari Wangi!!! So is the Beef Rendang which the type of beef being used was also Wagyu Beef.
And you might not believe me if I tell you the pricing. Many people have always thought that it must be really expensive to have Wagyu beef but it is really not a problem in Pondok Sari Wangi. By paying merely $5 you can have 10 sticks of Satay Wagyu Beef! During our return visit, we even ordered 2 plates of satay; it's really is addictive and Pondok Sari Wangi is currently our favourite place to have satay haha
Cendol, this is a must try! The cendol is freshly made daily and the texture is so springy! But it was bit sweet thus you might wanna inform the staff to prepare it at your sugar level preference.
Avocado Juice, definitely an all time favourite drink other than Cendol!
Most Indonesian food are quite spicy thus always be prepared for the challenge!
Sauce for grilled fish
Ayam Bakar Wang Solo, one of the new dishes which is a must try!
Beef Rendang! As I mentioned earlier the type of beef being used is actually Wagyu Beef and it's very well marinated. We were told that many different types of spices were used as the marinating ingredients which added more flavour and fragrance to the dish and this marinating process freshly prepared daily. Because of the rendang paste, it had allowed this dish to stand out among other places that serve rendang and it had a milky taste which just lingered in our mouth and made us keep asking for more!
Sayur Pucuk Raja cooked with Belacan, my very first time having this vegie fried with belacan and it was surprisingly good!
Iga Penyet; another new dish which this is actually beef ribs. The type of beef used to prepare this dish was Australian Angus Beef.
This is Soft Shell Crabs and being seafood lover, Hubby had searched few places locally to find a place that serves really good soft shell crabs and now we finally found one! As pictured, we had the soft shell crab deep fried with salted eggs and you can have it prepared to your style of preference eg. Butter Cereal. It's indeed a must try ^^
Ikan Bakar Sunda; it's grilled fish prepared in Sundanese style
Beef Satay; I just couldn't stop picking up the satay one after another! As I mentioned, the meat used was Wagyu Beef thus the texture was so tender and juicy and really 'meaty'! And it's merely $5 for 10 sticks so it's really worth lar!
The satay is really something that one could die for!
Ever since our first visit to the restaurant, it has been listed in our favourite restaurants list and even before posting this entry up, we had actually made few revisits to the restaurant haha! In addition, Pondok Sari Wangi Gadong main branch does have VIP rooms for private function thus if you're interested in bringing your family and friends to try it out, feel free to contact the restaurant to make earlier reservation @ 2445043
Hunnie Signing Off~
2 comments:
We are so pampered with all the nice comments of our restaurant. We are very glad that you have enjoyed our and we look forward to serve you again in our restaurant.
Yes! Agreed! I just went there on Sun. I first tried their ayam penyet in their stall in Times Square. and what attracted me most to the this was the soup! it was so good, sourish and very appetizing. the service in pondok sari wangi in gadong is very good, the atmosphere is good and the food is good. a good relaxing place to dine. well done, pondok sari wangi!!!!
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