Warung Nasi Ibu Sri — Restaurant in City of Medan

I remember that I had visited this restaurant before at Polonia Street a few years ago and ever had lunch once that I bought back home. When I mentioned it to my wife, she asked me if it tasted good or not ? But I couldn't answer her for I couldn't recall the taste of what I tasted at that time, so I responded vaguely that it wouldn't matter if she would go with me and try it there again. We came to this restaurant at noon on an immidiate occasion, and would liked to have our lunch there. The moment we arrived there, we discovered that the restaurant was full of diners. As a result, I was afraid of staying too long to wait for a seat and wasted time, so we decided to cancel having lunch there, but bought it back home to eat. I bought a pack of curry fish rice, and my wife also bought a pack of mixed vegetable rice, plus some more dishes. There are Bacem bean cakes, Bataknese specialty Naniarsik spicy-sour fish, papaya flowers, grilled chicken and other delicacies, and took them back home for our lunch. To be honest, the rice is a bit porridge-liked, soft and sticky. The dishes are quite good delicacies, and the taste is OK. But unfortunately, we noticed that the Naniarsik, a welknown dish of the Bataknese ethnic group, which should taste authentic origin as spicy-sour fish, not as what we tasted here, a bit like curry fish. It is very different from either the taste as what we learned the cooking way from our Bataknese friends, or as the taste we have known in some famous Bataknese restaurants. Prices is quite reasonable and the food overall tastes good, you can try it here yourself as...

Traditional cuisines which originally made with local chef. Full of variant and feels so tasty. With those dishes, I thought this place deserved to be one of Medan Local Hero, specially in Culinary category. Instead, all customers would be served friendly and offered a clean and proper space. Eventhough there was no covid-distance rule, it's fine as long as they committ with the open air concept....

Famous for home made style dish, & the taste is ok (7 -8 on the scale 1 to 10). But the place is not for the faint hearted. Extremely crowded during peak/lunch hrs, the waiting may take 1-2 hrs. Not worth the wait, esp. for one person only order (like me when i wanted to order 1 take away portion only). If you really must order in peak hrs, much safer to use online food...