Nando’s at 1 Utama is newly renovated to create perhaps a more cozy ambience. It’s nice, I like it. I just make sure we get one of the tables off the walkway to avoid having passers-by peer at us when we’re eating.

I ordered the Peri Platter, their largest set meal of a whole chicken with 5 side orders (or what they call, sidelines). We finally got around to doing the math and decided the larger set is cheaper.

We used to order individual sets because we have different heat level preferences of very spicy, spicy or mild. Beware, the very spicy is too spicy even for me, the Chili Queen!

Truth is if we order mild for the large set, those of us who prefer more fire in our chicken can always add the Peri-Peri sauce of our desired heat level. So it works out pretty good that way.

The large set comes with 2 bowls of Mediterranean Rice (rice cooked with green peas, carrots and onions) and a bowl each of their Fresco Salad (tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and coriander with a sourish dressing, I love this), Coleslaw and Old Style chips.

The kids wanted to try their Peri Wedges & Creamy Peri Dip which turned out to be just your regular wedges and the dip was, um, ordinary.

I like Nando’s but I consider it just too expensive for a chicken meal, albeit one that’s flame-grilled with their famed Peri-Peri sauce. A meal like this set us back by over rm85 just four of us. That’s over rm20 per head, much too steep for a family meal.

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