Western Foodie Adventure @ Jiran Restaurant, Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur

grilled chicken wt penne rigate pasta

I chanced upon this quaint restaurant serving western food notwithstanding that I’ve been driving ‘beside’ it on nearly daily basis. However, it was unnoticeable to me since, it is situated on an upper inner road on an island of shop along Jalan 3/2d, Section 6 Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur just a stone away from my abode! The place is simply called “Jiran” which literally means ‘neighbour’. Upon entering the restaurant with western décor, one will be greeted with a giant wall painting, shouting “MARVELOUS PIZZA”. This is the pizza station with shinning oven etc greets the guests. This is also the station where the white attired with black head dress chef grilled and fried their garlic bread, wedges and fries.

ciao a tutti!!!

a pail of garlic bread + mushroom soup
wt fries peeping on the side

HH and I ordered their fresh made mushroom soup together with garlic bread and mixed potatoes wedges and fries for starters. To our surprise, the wedges were served in a tin pail like container with mayonnaise on the side. The Jiran’s restaurant named their ‘server’ as crew surprised us again when presenting us our garlic bread in the pail container. The wedges keeps warm for a while, and this may be due to the fact that the heat was contained in the container. Jiran’s mushroom soup was tasty with strips and pieces of mushroom floating in them. We dipped the garlic bread which was thick, soft and fluffy. The garlic and the aromatic mint  flavour evaporates with my every bite.

a pail of piping hot wedges which stays warm

I ordered grilled chicken as my main course, while HH ordered pizza. The grilled chicken is served with coleslaw, which were finely diced and among the best coleslaw I’ve eaten, a piece of cob corn, few pieces of penne rigate pasta topped with mouth watering tomato paste. The grilled chicken sits comfortably on a layer of mashed potatoes which were slightly sourish and swims in moderately thick black pepper sauce. Each bite satiates my apetite except the corn on cob which was sweet less and tasteless.

colorful thin crusted heavenly topped pizza

HH tried Jiran’s pizza which was simply beautiful to look at with its thin crusted layer and heavenly generous toppings. The tomato paste, well balanced and compliments the accompanying cheese toppings.

The verdict: I will definitely come again. I am giving an overall 9 on Acepaizah’s scale. The ambiance is nice, with green table cloth. However, it is quite dim and not well lit (to me) since Jiran restaurant uses incandescent light bulb to create the ‘cow boy atmosphere’, perhaps.

mama mia
~Acepaizah~

Jiran restaurant along Jalan 3/2d
wt HH in the BIG shinning vehicle