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Richard Pankhurst -
a week ago
So, I came here as the reviews looked great and I also heard great things from word of mouth.
The staff here are really friendly and a credit to the restaurant. I love the grill in the window and open plan style kitchen, it really adds to the theatre of the restaurant.
I started with a good old Bintang and ordered the beef rendang as I was told this was to die for, and it's one of my favorite Indonesian dishes, but unfortunately at 6pm they had sold out so after looking at the menu again I decided on the bamboo grilled chicken and grilled corn cob with miso butter.
After ordering I was brought an appetiser which was similar to an onion bhaji with sweet chilli sauce. This was excellent and I could have happily eaten these all night long. After this my dinner arrived and it looked excellent.
Unfortunately the chicken, although lovely and moist, had very little flavour, there was no flavour of ginger or turmeric whatsoever, there seemed to be chilli in there but there was no chilli heat which would have been nice but I'm guessing these were peppers. The corn on the other hand was lovely, well grilled and a great char to it. The only unfortunate thing was there was a slight background taste of fish, I assumed that this is because it had been done on the same grill as the fish, not an issue for me but others may not like this, or, like some, may be allergic to fish which could cause a massive issue.
Finally, I can understand the higher than average prices that some have complained about, as you can see and taste that the produce used at Liap Liap is of a high quality which is great but if the flavour isn't there overall it becomes a let down.