ZAM ZAM indain Arabic western food — Restaurant in Kedah

Horrible experience. Avoid if you don't want to feel ripped off!

The waiter is kind, but he doesn't really understand what you're saying/asking.

The food took a long time to arrive. When it did, what we were left with were two sorry excuses for a curry and a (thick) soup. There was no naan yet, which was only available in the afternoon (we were there at 12.30), so we ordered paratha, which was drenched in fat and still uncooked, but at the same time burned. Needless to say we didn't enjoy the food. The mango juices we ordered when the food arrived, were served by the time we had nearly finished our food.

Nor did we enjoy the company. Five minutes after we asked the waiter for the bill, the Pakistani owner joined us to have a chat, without asking. The owner complained about the situation in his country victimising without reflection and blaming every (neighbouring) country but themselves. Little did he know, me and my wife have quite some experience with Pakistan and their neighbouring countries. For one, my wife is from one of them and the comments that he made were very insulting.

Fifteen minutes after I had asked for the bill, I got fed up and went to the counter only to find the waiter that I had asked for the bill, minding his own business preparing some ingredients. Asked the owner at the counter for the bill and he just gave me the price. I insisted on seeing the bill and surely enough there was service charge on there. I asked him what the function of that charge was. He said it was tax and everybody pays it. I 'explained' to him there is a difference between service tax and service charge and asked him for which service I was actually paying. Of course there was no satisfying answer to that and he just tried to laugh off the matter. The total amount of the bill was way too high for what you get. Instant feeling of being ripped off in every way!

I was extremely annoyed with the owner, the service and the whole place itself too to be honest. The toilets are extremely unhygienic, there is no ambiance and the chairs and tables are stalled randomly.

Please do yourself a favour and don't fall for the same mistake as we did. I still get worked up thinking about this experience and I'd like to prevent others from having it. Walk 10 meters further to find this lovely little food court on your right with very nice local food at a very fair price level.

PS: Don't be fooled by the 5 star review with all the pictures of food. There is no way those pictures are representative for the food that comes out of that kitchen. Clearly pictures from...

Avoid this restaurant.Very expensive yet the food is in very small portion plus not tasty. We have ordered samosa but what we get is just a triangular shaped popia. There wasnt any curry served with chappati and puri. We ordered chai but it wasn't anything near to how chai will tastes like. It tastes more like normal water and...

Amazing food amazing staff..excellent place to sit,Very good view and rates are ok..whenever you go to geoforest lankwai must visit ZAM ZAM resturant.. Great...