Last Sunday evening, we decided to use the voucher we had gotten from MetroDeal for A Vietnamese Culinary Experience: Delicious 4 Course Meal for 2 Persons at Ba Noi's for P445 instead of P1084.
I was really excited because I like Vietnamese food. And the excitement had built up because we had delayed having dinner there for several weeks.
Ba Noi's is a cozy and clean restaurant with authentic Vietnamese music in the background. It's a bit hard to locate but we did find it.
When we entered, we were greeted by a waiter. When I told him that we were going to use our voucher but had failed to make reservations in advance, he clucked his toungue! He did, however, say that they could accommodate us. Things pretty much went downhill from there.
The deal promised a Vietnamese culinary experience of spring rolls, chicken noodle soups with mushrooms, stir-fried water spinach, generously sized chicken in caramel sauce, steamed rice, and two Vietnamese iced coffees. The spring rolls were beef spring rolls. The chicken noodle soups with mushrooms was nothing more than chicken sotanghon soup. The stir fried water spinach was actually ginisang kangkong. The generously sized chicken in caramel sauce filled up half the breakfast plate that it was served on and it didn't even taste good. At least the steamed rice was newly cooked. Instead of the Vietnamese iced coffees, we got two glasses of sugarcane juice. There was nothing uniquely Vietnamese about the meal.
Then, when I asked for the bill because I had ordered a Coke, it took almost 10 minutes for them to hand it to me. I had no intentions of leaving a tip, but my patience had run out so I didn't wait for my change nor my receipt.
Needless to say, this was a bad deal.
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