Atrocious service, depressing dining
A very 'Communist' dining experience. Patrons have to queue up to purchase tickets. Staff bar you from straying too far from the cashier - it's more of a football match atmosphere, not a restaurant. On fronting up the cash you have to present your 'vouchers' and they attempt to mark you with a sticker.

After that you're forced to pay-as-you-go for every drink you order. No wet towels are provided and they don't offer any helpful tips on how you're simultaneously supposed to keep delving into your wallet while tackling their not-very-appetizing (well, by now anyway) roast pork while keeping things hygienic. I doubt they care about this. I doubt they've even thought about it.

I've been here twice and the service was atrocious both times. The first time I came for a glass of beer with friends. The beer was good. The second time I brought a healthy appetite along but I didn't get chance to try much of the food as my appetite disappeared rapidly. The waiters simply display a rudeness which has no place in Vietnam in the 21st century.

Overall they show a total disrespect for the customer.    [06 Jan 2007 03:07:57]

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     ­Jon Wright, Vietnam   

disappearing buffet
Yes, it's funny having to throng about the entrance of a restaurant like you were trying to buy tickets from scalpers for a footy match - hardly a good start to an evening of good eating experiences.

I've been there three or four times now - not by choice I hasten to add, but dragged there by VNese friends, about once a year I guess, for the last few years or so. I hope it doesn't happen again.

Service, as Jon says above, is awful. One time it took me, once seated, transit passenger sticker and all, half an hour to get a beer. Thereafter you're almost on your own. Getting follow up beers is equally difficult.

I was very disappointed with the food. Vietnamese go for buffets like pigs at the trough - arrive early and shovel in all you can as quick as you can. So when someone like me, wanting a nice leisurely dining experience, arrives about seven for an evening meal, you find that half the offerings are gone or almost so, and what's left is cold and greasey stir fries, plus piles of shellfish, etc., that the locals are still ploughing their way through.

There is a bar at the end where cooks will still fry some selected cuts of meat for you, but in the main it's not a place for the likes of me.

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     ­ian