Restaurant Istana Minang 2 — Restaurant in North Sumatra

Honestly, I love the restaurant climate, clean and good sirculation event without air AC.

I just chosen Gembung asam padeh and my friend was Nila goreng. and they served us the food as we required equipped with some cooked-casava leaves, died small fish or ikan teri with sambal and sambals.

And after bills came, we just shocked, the ikan teri sambals Rp.30.000 more expensive than Ikan Gembung Asam padeh and nila goreng Rp. 23-25.000.

Damn, it was quit tricky and unfair they served other food that we did not requested thats why we just thought the dried small fished just kind of additional same with sambal.

So for me as local, this restaurant was not fair and seem like trapped they customer. and I believed for foreign customer they will not like this behaviour.

For me..i am not recommended to visit this restaurant or if you want try just make sure the price earlier before you...

Tourist trap. They knew that we were clearly tourists, started calling their boss and punching their calculators to discuss the pricing in Bahasa. Some sort of "special treatment" we got. We were charged US$1 per plate of plain rice, US$2 for a chicken wing which wasn't even that good (in fact was pretty tough), and US$4 for beef rendang when it clearly stated on the board that it was 25,000 rupiah. Nice try. Also, rendang was tough as a cardboard. Not recommended one bit, better off going to any other stalls where they're...

Tourist trap. They knew that we were clearly tourists, started calling their boss and punching on the calculators to discuss pricing in Bahasa. Some sort of “special treatment” we got. We were charged U$1 per plate of plain rice, U$2 for a chicken wing which wasn’t even that good (in fact was pretty tough), and U$4 for rendang when it clearly stated on the board that it was 25,000. Nice try. Also, rendang was tough as a cardboard. Not recommended one bit, better off going to any other stalls where they’re...