It's been a while since I've written an eating out post. On Wednesday of last week, my boss wanted to try this banana leaf / mamak restaurant called Restoran Sri Nirwana Maju. Apparently, he used to go to a doctor nearby and always walked by this place but never tried it.
When we arrived, we were asked to take our order right at the front where you stand to wait to be seated. Honestly, that was kind of a red flag for me. I understand in the cases when the restaurant is full house, they may get orders in advance but this restaurant was nowhere near full house so to ask us to order before we even sat down was a bit off for me. We still ordered and took a seat after.
As for the place visually, it looked standard. There was nothing different or amazing about it. The place seemed neat and clean from a customer's view so that was good enough for me.
Alright here comes the food. I ordered a teh ice. I got the standard veg meal that came with rice. We ordered a mutton masala and chicken masala to be shared among the three of us. I did not like how they used paper cups to serve drinks. I can't remember the last time I drank using a small paper cup at a restaurant. The place was too cheap to hire people to clean or were they too lazy to clean? As for the food, it barely passed for me. It was one of the worst if not the worst banana leaf I've had in my life.
As for the damage, it came out to around RM80.65 which was covered by my boss. He usually just puts it under company expenses. This comes out to around RM27 per person which isn't too bad.
As for my review, I would give this place 2.8 stars out of 5. It wasn't good and I'm not surprised to check the google review to show 3.6 stars out of 5 with a decent amount of reviews. Once again to summarize, having to order before seating was a turn off. Ambience was ok. The food was barely passing and getting a tiny cup to drink was awful and kind of a ripoff in my opinion. We are definitely not coming back.