Ngon Ngon Banh Mi Cafe — Restaurant in Christchurch

My friend and I went to the rear parking for the hotel at 7.30am weekday and were eyed by a male employee while we were trying to park. At first, it was a full stare down with the person at the ‘rear’ reception door. Then he proceeded by staring at us through the side jam and the door (in between the door hinge); which is very creepy.

As we left the car and to come into the cafe, the male employee grumbled in Mandarin and told us off for parking at the rear. He wanted us to park in front of the cafe, by the roadside. Usually this is occupied throughout the day.

This does not make sense because the cafe sign shows a clear indicator to park at the rear.

Anyway, I would not come back to the cafe and hotel because of how much disgust the employee harboured for us. If the rear parking is not for cafe customers (even though the cafe and hotel are in the same building) , you should put a sign ‘hotel customers only’ at the...

this place is so pretty and super chill, i love when it’s sunny and the light streams in through the huge windows!

the food and drinks are really good - i had the pork and prawn spring rolls ($10? i think) and i got 3 huge spring rolls w/ sauce so super worth the money! i’ve also had the tiramisu latte and wintermelon tea w/ milk foam and they’re really yum :))

i was also trying to decide whether or not i should write a whole review or just leave a rating but today’s experience sealed the deal. i bought some chips on the way home but dropped the entire thing at the bus stop outside 🥲 i was so hungry so i went back in and got more chips and told the cashier what happened. she was super nice about it and when i got the second box of chips they had filled it up so much + gave me a bag so i wouldn’t drop it again so thank u folks so much even though it was so...

I never usually give out reviews on restaurants and cafés but this one is different. Food was alright but very rude staffs and has favouritism around costumers. Been back to this place a couple of times to give them a chance but every time I went back I was always greeted with an attitude. We once went to this place in a hurry hoping that they will still have the crepe cakes that they had advertised on their Instagram account, waited for at least 5 minutes standing there hoping to get served while the staffs fully knowing about our presence. Tried speaking up but completely got ignored and in the end we we're told that they didn't have the food we we're hoping to get but after we left the place we checked their instagram account story and saw that they had advertised the crepe cake we wanted with the caption of "hurry before sold out". Can u...