Saedi Fish Restaurant — Restaurant in Makkah Region

In short its One of the WORST restaurants ive been to okay. (TL;DR at bottom)

Few things you should know before visiting

if you do not speak arabic youll have problems ordering because the waiters do not know english service is unbearably slow, you WILL be served something cold the waiters are incompetent (wallahi borderline useless) the cleaners are more useful than these guys and are probably more capable of being a waiter compared to them

Now what i ordered was a nagil (fried) and shrimp (breaded and fried) white rice and brown rice, very simple order, 2 rice and 2 fish thats it

We go to the first floor since the ground floor is for single people only (family is 1st and 2nd floor)

We wanted a table close to the window to basically have a view to look at (image provided for no reason) there was a table empty but it had food leftover (plates and food all scattered across the table) and it wasnt cleaned (it was probably there for half an hour since the place started to smell) after telling the waiters and the manager to clean it up multiple times, they sent someone to clean it 20 mins later, once that was done we ask for an english menu, he provides an arabic one twice, we later gave up and just google translated pages that seemed to have appetizers and main courses, after that we asked the waiter to take our order, they dont even know what "one" and "two" mean, how are you running a restaurant where they dont know basic english, fine we order in arabic and get everything sorted out, then we waited 40 mins till our food arrived

Both the rice were served cold, the shrimp that we ordered was also cold, the only thing that was served hot was the fish, thats literally it, the stuff were fried in old oil because it gave off a bad after taste, as for the rice we asked them to give us proper hot rice, they probably just microwaved it because it was just awful, as a piece of advise if you do visit this restaurant, please please please bring your own tissues and wet wipes and use them when using the utensils or the salt shakers and stuff because they are disgusting, like the olive oil bottle was just sticky and greasy, that basically killed my whole mood of the place and to be honest, i would rather spray perfume on my testicles rather than eat at this place again (wouldnt bother eating in general)

To long didnt read: waiters dont speak anything except arabic service is super slow food will be often served cold prices are high compared to the service and food you get old oil may be used to fry you meal (shrimp fish etc) food is below average even if you...

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