Oniwa — Restaurant in Lausanne

If you are Chinese, I highly recommend this place. We are actually going to Kung-fu Cuisine near to Oniwa, but upon arrival, we noticed that Kung-fu Cuisine is closed until Aug 2023. Maybe the owner is on vacation, but there is no notice on Google. It's almost 2 PM when we arrived at Kung-fu Cuisine and as you may or may not know, most of the restaurants in Switzerland closes between 2 PM (or 2:30 PM) to 6 PM. All of my family are very hungry at that time (which is our fault I have to say). Then I found this Japanese restaurant nearby. When we first walked in, we were told by a waitress that the kitchen is closed. Fortunately, when we walking out, we see the owner and he told us they are still open and bring us the secret Chinese food menu.

We ordered two dishes and both of them are delicious and genuine Chinese dishes.

Bottled water is 7 fr. which I forgot to ask whether it's free, but I should've known that considering the tap water is not free in Switzerland...

Most disappointing Japanese place I’ve been, we went there for a surprise birthday. The waiter didn’t speak neitherEnglish nor French, took 10 minutes to come get the order than another 10 minutes to get the water and we had to ask ! They looked upset when we asked to replace the chicken brochette with a salmon one on the menu, mission impossible, even when we mentioned that our friend was vegetarian! The miso soup arrived cold after 10 minutes, the seaweed salade average. The four of us were disappointed with our food, there is really nothing special, and the service was a joke, we had to ask several time to get soya sauce in a sushi place and they always looked annoyed with our comments. A no go for me...

First and foremost, let me clarify: the food was good. The wait for the entire meal and between courses was disastrous. We spent 3 and a half hours to get to our desert. They should spend less time catering for take away orders and smood drivers than they do, or just not do takeaway on days that they serve in-house as they clearly cannot manage the 2 simultaneously! I HOPE THEY FIX THIS PROBLEM, FAST. Or this will not be the last bad review they get. Disappointing that a restaurant with such good food has ruined...