Hartz Chicken Buffet is the new buzz in the little industrial town of Bintulu. This franchise-based restaurant is originated from Texas, USA. The local company that owned the franchise had license to operate within the whole of Sarawak and Brunei region.

Since it’s a buzz, I’ve decided to give it a go. It looks pretty tempting from the outside. Looks classy enough for an International-based restaurant.

A feature that is almost a regular at any new opening businesses. It attracts customers who’re still not familiar with the restaurant’s locality.

Family photo in front of the first chicken buffet restaurant in Bintulu. There’s actually a local chicken buffet restaurant (Malaysian-style restaurant) just a few blocks away from this one. But I don’t think they’re gonna survive for much longer at their current premise, truthfully speaking. Their business had been pretty sloppy even before Hartz opens.

The crowd. I tell you, I’ve never seen so many people in any single restaurants in Bintulu before, not even in KFC.

The Salad bar. Bad angle shot, didn’t get the shots of the veges.

This is the hot food bar, serving foods of western and eastern mixtures. Rice, mashed potato, cabbages, corns, gravies, chicken curry, etc. I’ve to say all their food are full of pepper, as to make it spicy. I’ll explain later on my thought about it later at the end of the post.

They serve fried chicken, BBQ roasted chicken, hot and spicy chicken, fried chicken liver, fried chicken gizzards, and hot wings. Side dishes includes onion rings and potato chips.

Huge oven mass-roasting chickens.

Read the policy before picking up your food. If you take too much, just swallow them, else you’ve to pay extra for it.

This is my first plate. Fried chicken with spaghetti, mashed potato, and veges. I left the mashed potato for extra room in my stomach for another plater.

My second plate. Chicken curry rice with veges and carrots. Full, but not satisfied.

Their opening promotion price. RM15 per head. RM30 for two. Quite reasonable, but I don’t understand why their usual price (RM16.90) is higher than that of KL’s Sunway Pyramid, RM14.40.

Now, back to my thought about their over-peppered food. I think this is to make their food extra spicy that those non-spicy food eater would eat less, and an average spicy eater like me would take a lot of those unlimited carbonated drinks they serve just to cool down. Thus, making us bloated before the 3rd plater. Anyone second my thought?

But nevertheless, some feedback for the restaurant. Price-wise, would consider it affordable for masses. There were lots of students in the restaurant today. I thought the food is pretty average, would still prefer KFC for the chicken.