PERI-O-METER AT NANDOS

The little flag indicates how hot your chicken is

I settled for the hot scale only

The Peri-Peri sauce stand

The espetada chicken I had. Can feed two.

The four thigh meat of the Espetada is skewered kebab-like.

My two side orders - potato and bean salad

Quarter size chicken with grilled vegetables

The Peri-O meter scale of the Peri-Peri sauce

Love the Nandos website

Everything is explained in drawings

The cockerel is used as the Nandos' logo

The cooking pot of the Portuguese

PERI ME AWAY NANDOS

Nando’s is the home of Portuguese flame-grilled PERi-PERi Chicken. The chickens are:

• Only the freshest, and never frozen

• Marinated for 24 hours in our natural PERi-PERi sauce

• Grilled to order over an open flame to reduce fat content

• Basted to your taste to control the spiciness

So guess what? We had Nandos chicken for our tea recently at Jusco Tebrau, JB. Their big platters of flame-grilled PERi-PERi chicken are made for sharing. A platter shared is a cost divided. At Nando’s, even when you “Buy, buy, buy!”, shares and other pocket-friendly measures like bottomless soft drinks (excludes bottled waters, nectars or fresh juices) and yogurts mean you won’t have to splash out a fortune.

The spicy chicken here even comes with a cute little flag that indicates the spiciness level on the “peri-o-meter”, that’s like what some people do for burgers. I had chicken espetada with potato salad and bean cole slaw. Hubby had quarter chicken with rice and salad - peri-peri hot.

Nando's Peri-Peri chicken is always healthy. As part of a well balanced diet it's just as tasty as on a reckless uncontrolled binge! Flame-grilling the chicken means it loses lots of its fat. Nando's Peri-Peri menu provides a varied choice of healthy but delicious options which makes eating out healthily easy.

For more details visit http://www.nandos.com.my/ The webiste is so eye-catching.

More about Nandos

Nando's was born in 1987 in South Africa, although the tale of Nando’s and the inspirational Peri-Peri takes us back much further in time. From the humble beginnings, Nando's Restaurants have now opened in 34 countries on five continents around the world, launching in Washington DCin July 2008. .

In the beginning Nando’s Peri-Peri Flame-Grilled Chicken didn’t just fall out of the sky! The natural wonder dates back to a time when the brave Portuguese set out to explore new worlds…
The explorers tried to sail to the East, where it was rumoured treasures abounded. They realised that they couldn’t make it without a stop to replenish stores for their journey. So in what is now known as Mozambique, they established a port. The rich and fertile lands they discovered enticed many explorers to settle. The Portuguese flourished here and life soon included great food, wine and much laughter.

Discovering Peri-Peri
Indigenous Africans introduced the Portuguese to the African Bird’s Eye Chilli. The locals called this fiery little chilli Pili-Pili, which means Pepper-Pepper in Swahili.‘Peri- Peri’ was the best stab the explorers could make at pronouncing Pili-Pili, so Peri-Peri it became. They immediately added it to their cooking and it soon became an integral part of their lives. The women found that Peri-Peri aroused passion in their men and were delighted that something so small could prove so satisfying.

Nando’s hatches 413 years later the gold rush started. Many Mozambican-Portuguese settlers rushed to Johannesburg to prospect for gold. They took their unique Peri-Peri chicken with them. Some prospectors found digging for gold too tough and decided that feeding hungry miners with their Peri-Peri chicken would be a more lucrative business.

In Rosettenville, a restaurant named Chickenland flourished. Then in1987, two great friends - Robert and Fernando - visited and fell in love with Peri-Peri flame-grilled chicken. They bought the restaurant and changed its name – the first Nando’s (after Fernando's name) had been created.

The Legend of Barcelos

Back in the 14th Century in Barcelos, Portugal, a pilgrim was wrongly accused of theft. The penalty was death. For justice he appealed to ‘Our Lady’ and St. James – the patron saint of protection.
The pilgrim came before the judge who was to decide his fate. The judge was about to eat a roast cockerel for his dinner so the pilgrim pleaded “If I am innocent may that cockerel get up and crow.” To everyone’s astonishment, and luckily for the pilgrim, the cockerel did rise and crow heartily! Only a legend but we love it. Indeed we chose the Barcelos Cockerel for Nando’s identity because of its association with faith, justice and good luck.

So there you have Nandos and the famed Barcelos Cockerel in Malaysia but not in Singapre yet.