Restaurante Chino "Hola" — Restaurant in Ronda

Ok, so I'm Malaysian-Chinese and was craving Asian food as I'm based in Grazalema for a few weeks. Local friends recommended Hola and I am SO GLAD we made the effort to go, and we will be back for sure.

Service was lovely from beginning to end, we ate the perfect amount, food very reasonably priced, definitely cooked fresh but still very quick and they adapted a tofu dish for us after taking the initiative to ask us if we wanted it adapted from non-vegetarian to vegetarian. (We aren't veggie but it was great of them to ask).

We ordered off the Specials section of the menu: sizzling prawns and ma po tofu. We had fried noodles and a portion of white rice.

The food was better than I expected (from a small town in Spain), with great flavour in the sauces, freshly prepared, and the noodles cooked in a proper seasoned wok.

I also enjoyed the decor - while this is a modest restaurant, it is clear that they care about presentation - and the sweet glass partitions with cute etchings of pandas and birds inside.

We will be back with friends for sure.

Notable: Full list of allergens in the extensive menu. English translations. Chinese and European desserts. They seem to have a full bar of spirits, too.

There is a cheap carpark...

Terrible service. I walked in to order takeaway. 15mins after I ordered I saw them bring out a carrier bag and set it on the side. It was left there for at least 15mins, while they took calls, gave other customers who had phoned in their takeaway and took their payments, seated people in the restaurant. I assumed the person who ordered that one hadn't showed up. But no, after that time me just sitting there they finally took it down and asked me to pay, I mentioned that it might be cold by now! Not only that, but they gave me rice with prawns instead of rice with eggs that I asked for (and it was very clear what I wanted, they repeated it back to me), purely a mistake on their part but they offered no apology or offer to get what I had ordered. I just paid and took the food. They didn't even say thank you. Nothing. So rude. They think they can treat tourists like that? Well they get a bad review. Lucky I'm not vegetarian! By the way, the food itself...

This restaurant was very good 4.5. Nice to have a different option of food in Ronda. Our waitress, Li, was super nice helping me with my gluten free and bell pepper allergies, top service! I ordered from the weekend special menu: corn & chicken soup, chicken with bamboo & mushroom - not many mushrooms, fried rice, and Chinese pudding ie flan, all for 11.50€. My husband got the full size sizzling beef with white rice. There was the puffy rice chips on the table waiting for us. We split a bottle of sparkling water. Total bill was 30€. The food was good, great deal for the price. The staff were hustling in this busy restaurant. The atmosphere/acoustics was on the louder end. All in all this is a great choice! Been in business...