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Anyone has any luck to book with Nonya Malaysian Restaurant deal from Groupon?
joannatan on 28/09/2012 - 12:47
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Try calling at 8pm and you would need to book for 5:30pm sitting. The food is quite good but you would be kidding yourself if you believe it is All-You-Can-Eat. We were there on Sat at 17:30 and by 18:45 the restaurant gets very busy. They have a set menu for you to select your dishes. Their policy is that you can only order one dish at a time, you order your second dish after you have finish your first dish, and don't forget you have to be waiting for your food to be cooked. You cannot order your first main until you finished your entree. Each dish is a standard serve to be shared by all in your party. If you have a party of 4 or 6, you pretty much just get a mouthful of the dish and you would need to place your next order and join the waiting game again. In 90mins, you would only get about 5 dishes (even then, you would be eating fast before you can order the next). You would just get your monies worth. They should be treating Groupon customers the same as general customers. As Groupon customers, we should be allowed to place one order for food and all served at the same time. Customers should be allowed to re-order as they can consume. This is a STRANGE and restricted 'All-You-Can-Eat'.
To be honest even without a coupon a lot of places do it this way. It's to make sure you don't over order and they lose money on wastage which is understandable. But ti comes down to how long it takes to cook. I have a local Fijian Indian restaurant (which is amazing btw) who does this with their banquets but you get an initial load of food according to the number of people there. So for 5 people you'd get all 4 dishes of the banquet come out and then once you've finished one you can ask for another so at least you wont go hungry.
Nah that is fair in your case Sirfibbled because 1. (Curry doesnt take as long to prepare) and 2. They are giving you all dishes at the same time. This one is forcing you to order your entree and then only when you finish, can you order your main. I think that is pretty dodgy considering everyone is going to consume both. Fatwombat, Do you mean that you can only order one entree and one main PER table or per person? If you're getting 5 dishes per table, that is beyond dodgy.
Apparently this is the same practice applied by wasabi bistro's buffet. Lack of foresight IMO.
Would that be BULA, and if so, have you used vouchers there? I read very mixed reviews.
Nope. Ramas in Canberra.
call their number since this morning to the afternoon, no one pick up the phone, voice mail full, website doesn't have email. call groupon they don't have other number as well. want to know if you bring kid below 5, do you need pay extra or you need purchase extra person on it
We called at 6pm yesterday, picked up and booked November, so I guess if book ahead there is no problem. Try 5.30-6pm!
I was a bit suspicious of this 'Malaysian' restaurant deal when they couldn't even spell 'Nyonya' correctly…. see 'Nyonya Baba' in wikipedia. Hopefully the food is still authentic.
i guess the owner is chinese malaysian, so they don't really know how to spell malay properly
joannatan, you are racist!
I guess it's because some other restaurant already registered the name Nyonya, so they CANNOT use the name Nyonya!? make sense?!
but of course, they might not even be Malaysian so they know nothing about the word: "Nyonya"!
tell me, how this is racist? are you chinese malaysian?
I don't think joannatan's comment was racist.
My original question was because I was suspicious that they weren't really Malaysian.
It's racist because you make the assumption that all chinese malaysians don't know how to spell malay properly. I doubt that is true.
how many chinese malay do you know? do you know in malaysia the chinese can choose either they go to chinese school or they go to malay school, so the one go to malay school most likely become banana/coconut. and the one that went to chinese school becoming chinese :)
wow i'm really glad i didn't buy this. i've eaten here before (no vouchers) and have to say the food is fairly good, chinese-malaysian style, portions are average (TBH the 'daily special' of char kway teow was tiny)…but i would have liked to go back.
but seeing this deal, and reading the conditions (1 main dish at a time etc) i was really skeptical whether this would actually happen as you described - and thankfully i DIDN'T go.
What's the issue? Bought the coupon but unable to book?