First Vietnamese Restaurant In Malacca. So?
After I finished the assignment assigned by my supervisor, I drove to town to try the not-so-new Vietnamese restaurant. Upon arriving, there were only 2 tables occupied. My heart said, “Bad sign #1.”
There wasn’t much variety on the menu. There were 3 main categories, mainly noodles, side dishes and soup. With about 4-5 varieties on each categories, very limited choices, I can say. My heart said, “Bad sign #2.”
I ordered beef noodles and spring rolls anyway, RM4 for each.
While waiting for my food to come, the boss was chatting with the customers. I overheard the conversation that they wanted to close down the shop since business wasn’t that good. They wanted to hand over the shop to someone else, but nobody was interested. My heart said, “Bad sign #3.”
My food arrived and I could only look at the beef noodle with the “WTF” look. 2 thin slices of beef meat, 1 scoop of minced beef meat, a llittle bit of bean sprouts, peppermint leaves and spring onions to garnish it. The soup tasted bland and there were no beef balls, at all. It was totally pathetic!
Then, my spring roll came. Another “WTF” look on my face. The spring roll was just slightly longer than the length of my little finger. I believe, I can stuck the spring roll into my nose if I force it in. Don’t even talk about what’s inside. It was totally pathetic!
With such food, how can you asked us to write a good review on your restaurant. Being the first Vietnamese restaurant in Malacca doesn’t really mean anything, to me. I went in as a customer, it disappointed me.
“Supervisor, can I claim my lunch money from the office? RM10+ is a lot.” -puppy eyes-
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May 26th, 2006 14:00
Next time when you see no/few customers….the Sign is there already.
May 26th, 2006 14:27
vietnamese noodle with meat ball one meh??
anyway, the menu s**ks liao…
May 26th, 2006 14:31
there is a vietnamese restaurant at One-U, the food is juz nice….especially my favourite–> prawn+ banana roll….-droolzzz-
May 26th, 2006 14:45
ahha.. lil j.. u are just damn unlucky to eat there… i had good time at the REAL vietnamese kitchen at one Utama and leisure mall~
May 26th, 2006 14:59
Che-Cheh : Usually I do that, but then my supervisor wanted me to check it out. So…
Lee C.S. : No meat ball one meh? Hmm.. Don’t know. Hehe.. Ya, agree.
Ah Nee : I know that restaurant, no chance to try it out only. :)
Cely : Ya, damn unlucky. Haha, the chef of that restaurant is a Vietnamese girl/wife also. But then, still sucks.
May 26th, 2006 15:32
I saw the restaurant few weeks back and decided to try it out with my gf. We were just standing outside the door when we noticed nobody was inside. That’s when we decided to go somewhere else instead. Good hunch!
May 26th, 2006 15:50
my mum can make that kind of spring roll. then again, the beef noodle…it looks something like that from the ones i had for my sunday breakfast but mine was delicious. well, since you’ve already got those bad instincts, why did u decided to stay anyway? that restaurant serves as a bad reputation for the vietnamese restaurants in malaysia cuz i’ve been to several vietnamese restaurants and they all tastes brilliant!
May 26th, 2006 16:11
hahah well u’ll never know what good food really is unless u try bad food once in a while
May 26th, 2006 18:03
RM4 noodle woh.. what do you expect?
Btw, I think the leave you find in your noodle is local basil. Eh.. you are doing food and restaurant review, you’ll need a book on ingrients in cookings already.
May 26th, 2006 18:25
aighh…this food can drool me at all…. too bad..got any good foos review ar???? u say can make me drool 1 wor…
May 26th, 2006 18:47
somehomw…. vietnamese food is not nice. kinda weird.
my poor brother is working is vietnam… everyday see such food, no wonder he’s thin down! i’m jealous of his weight loss.
Jason, maybe it’s a way of slimming down, worth trying out!
May 26th, 2006 18:58
Jeremy : Lucky you… I was forced to go. :(
Cheng Sim : I was forced to go because my supervisor asked me to check it out. Sighs… Do I have any other choice? Well, its a family business actually, so, you can’t say it that way.
Boss Stewie : Ya, agree. Bad luck.
Zara’s Mama : For extra RM1, I can bring the boss eat better beef noodles with more meat and noodles. :D I asked the boss, he said its peppermint / mint / 薄荷woh. What is basil anyway? :P
Milly : It didn’t make me drool either… :P
Chris : Hahaa… Kesian your brother. Ermm, I don’t want to pay to eat lousy food.
May 26th, 2006 21:16
I bet my maggi mee taste better than that..
May 27th, 2006 19:38
it all depends on what recipe their using for the PHO..but the spring roll is defintely CHINESE…..cant get rice paper here unless they import…stupid biz..
May 28th, 2006 11:01
when i go to malacca i’m going to review food ther like you :P
May 28th, 2006 16:50
j-son…
go vietnam and try thier vietnamese noodle… bet that u pay less than rm 3 for a bowl of noodle… looks and feel taaasieeer thatn what u show in the photo….
kampung kai…
not agree with u wor… at least what i have there is ok to me… cheap then taste ok also.. where ur brother work ar?
May 30th, 2006 22:39
Jee : You bet…
Foodcrazee : I think their PHO lacks alot of stuffs, not enough taste/kick.
Mun Kit : Haha! Come come..
Eucl : Hmm… If only I got the money to travel.