StopBye Cafe - Indonesian Fusion Food Truck — Restaurant in Los Angeles

I don't ever leave reviews, but this was so bad that I could not skip it this time. Everything on the menu is $13 plus tax. That's not the issue here, although even if this meal were $5 I still wouldn't get it. I ordered the red beef curry bowl and I truly wish I could get a refund. There was barely any beef in this bowl; it was all rice and the beef made a 1 inch by 2 inch cameo. There was zero, and I mean ZERO flavor. It was spicy in the sense that it was hot, but besides pure heat there was nothing flavoring this meal. There was NO SAUCE and this whole plate was just oily- the rice was even soggy from it. There were 3 stale, sad french fries included in this bowl that made me wonder if it was added on accident. There were small sprinkles of lettuce and shredded carrots included, and 6 thin slices of cucumber that tasted like they had been sitting out to dry all day.

Additionally, I am not sure if this is because I'm lighter skinned than the guy ordering before me, but I noticed the staff treated me nicer than him. The lady taking orders legit was about to put in his beef noodles request as a fried chicken sandwich. How do those sound anything alike 😐. She smiled when helping me and the white girls behind me, but seemed bothered when she was dealing with the two male customers of tan complexion. All over weird vibes.

Do not spend your money here unless you enjoy being...

I don't usually write reviews, but had StopBye Cafe for lunch today, and it was amazing. We ordered Beef RenDang Stew, Justin's 18 Spice Chicken, jasmine rice, garlic fries, and iced Thai tea. Everything was amazing. I don't eat spicy food, but really enjoyed the RenDang stew. The stew comes with big chunks of tender + flavorful beef, and plenty of tofu and an egg. the 18 Spice Chicken "looked" dry when I first opened the container, but turned out to be amazing. It was a full of flavor and was also extremly tender. The truck was quite busy, so we were given a time slot to come pick up our food (they are in a designated food truck area in our neighborhood for the COVID food truck support), so we came back to grab out food 30 min later. The owner timed it so that he cam make our garlic fries fresh. They were very generous on the season with the fries... which is...

I don't know if I just got unlucky, but I don't know how anyone can say this is good. I got it as a food truck at the LA Auto show and had the chicken sandwich, beef plate, beef sandwich, and garlic noodle bowl. Everything was just amazingly bland and lacked any kind of distinctive flavor that made it Indonesian other than the noodles. Heck it even lacked salt and sugar. The beef literally was unseasoned and tasted like me just cooking some beef at home with an instant pot with just a bit of soy sauce. The chicken sandwich was no better than chick fil a but it cost $16. The fries were terribly dry like day old McDonald's fries. And the Coco coffee honestly just sucked and tasted like coffee with spoiled sour milk in it. Worst of all it took 20 minutes to order and another 25 minutes to get my food. It was "wish I could have gotten a...