For this city of Ipoh if one enquires about a good restaurant for Indian food, one can expect the answer, "Oh you may try Pakeeza" So it was with much expectation that we visited this place,located very close to the city centre.The place is not big enough but is generally very well patronised and it gets full to its capacity in a short time soon after dinner time starts. The ambience is very ordinary unlike most of the better Indian restaurants one sees in India. The furnishing also is quite basic though it is comfortable. Looks like it is the trend in most of the restaurants in this part of Malaysia. The food is what one goes for to a restaurant and in this department, the place is a great disappointment. The menu has a good variety of Indian dishes but the preparation fall much below the expected standards, and even they fail the test of authenticity. For a foody this is a big let down and put off. Therefore, I have decided not to go there again.We have tried their chicken,mutton and fish preparations with tandoori roti. Last month we took our guests for dinner out The mutton preparation we were served was so bad that it looked not to be their own preparation. Probably it was brought from a near by Nasi Kandar (local Malay restaurant). When it was pointed out, the general behaviour of the staff was quite disgusting. Instead of diplomatically accepting the shortfall, we were told that the customer should expect this level of standard only. We ordered tandoori roti and paratha, but were served with tandoori roti AND normal paratha. So I feel in the absence of a viable alternative, it is enjoying a good run with not so knowledgeable foodies of Indian preparations chosing to use it. I would say that go there for an average meal, but nothing comparable to authentic Indian restaurants in many other countries.
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