Restoran The Dapo — Restaurant in Dungun

More to 3.5 but not bad. Will explain why it is not a full 4 star.

Ordered pasta (carbonara and aglio olio). I felt the pasta was not cooked thoroughly. I was expecting slight firm texture but was pretty tough. Was expecting the classic aglio olio but the garlic slices were not 'cooked in olive oil to golden brown' but rather uncooked as they were completely white. I couldn't taste the garlic as it was overwhelming with chilli powder.

So this seems to be their own version of aglio olio.

The carbonara pasta was also not cooked thoroughly as my daughter was having hard time chewing it but otherwise it was OK.

Lamb chop was very nice. Meat was good and tender.

Korean Spicy chicken was... I am Korean and the sauce was exactly the same as in Korea, just overcooked. Kudos to the chef if he cracked the code, I just hope he did not buy a commercially made Korean Chicken and just reheat in the oven as that was how it tasted. But again if it was made from scratch by the chef then all my respect to him.

I wish there were more non-coffee drink options as my young daughter was having trouble picking a drink and finally chose strawberry milkshake but it tasted very artificial.

Room for improvement but I have no problem to revisit and recommend.

The restaurant is...

Food : 4.5 ⭐️ I ordered beef steak 2, and they really follow my order to make it medium for it done -ness. So the steak stil juicy and very tender to eat. If u like spices, u may need to ask for extra mixed herbs. For me the steak just nice and I definitely gonna go again and repeat it if I am craving for meat. For sauce they hv brown black pepper and chimichuri sauce, totally fall in love with chimchuri sauce( it savoury+ sour suit well with the meat, hv meaty flavour+ just nice salt on it & sour= 3 combination that match really well). We ordered burger as well, hopefully next time they can have burger that suit my keto diet ( wrap it with egg/ match it with scrambled egg 😁😅) willing topay extra for the egg wrapt scrambled egg. And last but not least we have beef lasagna, for us its just like standard lasagna. Maybe we are very full to have it. And after having 3 meal, we feel like that lasagna a little bit salty to taste. Hehehhe maybe we are just too full. 😝😅 we willibg to try...

The lamb chop is marinated in sambal-percik like marination. Not stated in the description of the menu. Was hoping for lamb with a simple black pepper and salt. Mashed potato is a bit gritty from what I assumed is the instant potato flakes. Black pepper sauce a bit runny. Side vegs is goood

Tomyam pasta a bit tasteless on the tomyam. Spicy korean wings are quite small for the price. Had burnt taste at the end.

Mac & Cheese (not in pic) is about small foil size (around 3x6inch?). A bit too strong on the garlic and not so much on cheese. The mac is overcooked.

Some of the workers were playing videos out of their phones, making the atmosphere a bit ‘cheap.’

Oh and you get 5% off total bill if (and only if) you rated them 5 stars. So some of the reviews might be...