JW Café

First thing first I’m a foodie. Sorry to say. Me and my friends got bamboozled. There was a lot of hype about this place. Saw YouTubers “promoting” for the place. Looked like it was worth giving it a try. Oh boy were we disappointed in the food/ service.

The cons: food in general was sitting there looking old and stale or even cold. Can’t really say if the seafood / lobster was even fresh. The oyster was previously schucked sitting in a metal tray as the guy was putting it out. As I grabbed a few of different kinds. It looked like it’s been in the fridge dried out and depleted. Not freshly opened. My other friend who started before me ate a few oysters before I grabbed my plate to the table. When I told him about the oyster. The damage was already done. He had stomach ache and diarrhea for the next few days. If you’re going to pay a premium price for a hyped up buffet. The least you can do is have someone schuck the “fresh” oyster. The lobster was not worth it. Not fresh and they only cooked/ grilled it one way only. Cheese lobster. My other friend is lactose intolerance. So we had to ask the waiter to get some grilled without cheese. I even requested garlic butter or some other sort of seasoning. To my surprise no avail. Seems like they didn’t understand me or was just too lazy for a simple request. When they finally understood and made boiled/grilled lobster. Looked like my niece could have done a better job. Would have have been better if we would have got whole boiled lobster. Not over cooked and rubbery lobster meat. The cooked scallops station was cold. They made few batches ahead so it just sits there getting cold. Worth a try but not for seconds The sushi looked like no one touched it. Not a good sign. Indian food station horrible. Lacking flavor just didn’t have any thing worth eating. I usually get a plate sampler trying it out. 👎 Asian station was semi decent not top tier gourmet food. Better street /restaurant food out there. The abalone porridge was good ate it with salted egg. I can go on for hours critiquing the food. Stop for now. The waiters/ waitresses cooks/server didn’t speak too much english. The only one that spoke and understood English was the hostess. The pro: the abalone porridge 🤤 Beef wellington was good, the muscles, variety of shrimps, prawns,clam and crab was edible. Nothing special just boiled and put on ice. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Cost: over price for some below mediocre food. The cost of 3 adults was $5,783,400 dong. Roughly $227.00 US dollar. Comes out to $76.00 a person. We didn’t order alcohol or wine. That’s just food, juice and water.