We just had a delicious and authentic meal in an Asian restaurant in Marrakech last night and so we thought we could continue that luck with our first meal in Casablanca tonight with this Vietnamese restaurant. No such luck! I've been to countless Vietnamese restaurants in Vietnam and around the world, it's the first time I've seen spring rolls served with a bowl of plain steamed rice! To be fair, the spring rolls were normal. But there's no special sauce and only two pieces of fig-leave sized lettuces for wrapping them in. And then there was the stir fried beef noodles. My over-half-a-century's experience of consuming all kinds of noodles told me that they were boiled rather than stir fried. And they were overly boiled at that. Mixed in with some bland beef slices and stale cooked vegetables then it's dressed up as stir fried beef noodles. It's so bland and mushy that it's worse than any takeaway noodles that I can recall. But the place has crisp white table clothes, tea candles, staff dressed in all black, French cafe music playing in the background, plus 4 big Chinese characters on its front door. They might be popular Casablaca-styled Vietnamese food (the restaurant was quite crowded with well-heeled locals that night), but authentic they...
Read moreAs an Asian restaurant, it is unacceptable and racist to deliberately ignore asian customers (Firstly, we came into the restaurant but nobody ever guided us to the seat. Secondly, there were 3-4 waiters in the room and we waved our hands several times but nobody came to us saying anything even if they just standing there doing nothing). We had been there for over 15 minutes until we were uncomfortable about waiting any longer, so we chose to leave. The Interesting thing is it was not in rush time(actually they were closing in 30 minutes and there were NO OTHER customers waiting for order except us). Worst experience in Morocco. Asian people please avoid. ...
Read moreWe had lunch at millenium viet during our short layover in Casablanca. The staff are friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable. Good thing we know a little bit of Arabic so we were able to converse with the staff. They only speak French and Arabic. The menu, too, is only in French. The dishes we had are all flavorful. Special thanks to Mr Ali for assisting...
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