Faith Hope Love Malaysian Eatery — Restaurant in Napier

Very tasty Malaysian food in a casual setting, and having brought other Malaysians here it is a solid choice when you want some authentic home cooked flavors!

For a group of six we ordered the chicken satays x2, oyster omelette, deep fried squid, roti panai, and one more. Mains we ordered Nasi Lemak, Hainanese Chicken, Beef Rendang, Panh Mee (?) the dried anchovies w chilli, noodles and poached egg, Assam Fish and one more. Medium heat for everything. Most of the flavors were great, especially for the rendang and satay.

I would've wanted more salt & pepper /garlic chilli on the Squid, and more flavor on the Hainan Chicken ( rice was super tasty perfect) but it did come with sauces. We demolished everything!! 5 entrees, 6 mains. Total $29/pp, not bad

It would have been helpful to have a no egg option, and there was difficulty explaining this to the waiter as one of our friends has a dairy allergy. We asked for egg on the side if possible but there was a fried egg on top of the Nasi Lemak and the noodle dish, which kinda ruled out her sharing those dishes with us. 😭 In 2019 wait staff need to be trained for accomodating substitutions and queries like that.

On another occasion I had the Cham tea (Mixed Coffee & Tea w condensed milk) and banana fritter there, very nostalgic and cute.

I would definitely come back with friends, but be sure to communicate allergies better.

From the outside it can be easy to miss because its not very well lit, and can be on the darker side. Maybe more suitable for...

If you want to try authentic Malaysian cuisine, this is where you need to go! (Ps: I’m a Malaysian) We ordered Nasik Lemak, Chili Pan Mee, Char Kuey Tiaw and Roti Prata. I enjoyed Roti Prata the most! It’s very nice and even better than most of those I had in Malaysia. Char Kuew Tiaw was a bit dry and slightly on the salty side but still above average of what you usually found in New Zealand. Nasik Lemak and Chili Pan Mee are just tasty. 😋 Huge portion, value for money.

Interior of the restaurant is very lovely with a little sweet touch here and there. They even provide reading glasses for those who need. (see picture)

There’s only one chef to my knowledge, so be a bit patient if you visit during peak hour. We were here between 1-2pm lunch hour on a Saturday but the speed of service is still very fast.

Will visit again if I’m here in Napier again.

A little advice to the business owner; to make menu...

This place taste horrible, it called malaycia food , but nothing taste of Malaysia, hainan chicken beast is water boils with either 3pieces of whole chicken dram sticks without cut or , 3 pieces boiled chicken Brest. The worth plate was the Wat Tan Hor ，it is purely black soy sause mixture , cold . Have you ever seen wat dan Hor with egg noodle and rice noodle mixture? It is Devil cuisine！very yuck ! Don’t understand why they have so many good feed back? Fake ? If you believe me , don’t try , if You dare to try , make sure you give feedback , don’t let them to fake it , it cost $22 per dishes ! Welcome . When you give feed back to them .the staff starting Personal attacks complaining our religion and very rudely .it says welcome vegetarian. With Buddhism , it require no onion normal. You should not welcome vegetarian or gluten free if you can’t make it . Otherwise you can put you self in...