99 By Night - Dine & Chill — Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

We arrived early around 530pm without reservation. We were ushered to the 5th floor and showed to our table quickly. Then a server came around to explain the packages to us and clarified the set that we wish to have.

Once that's out of the way, starters were served. Dishes of lobster cooked in sauce, a salad and boiled crabs were served. The salad was laden with too much mayonnaise and can forgo if you are calorie conscious.

Subsequently, other dishes of beef, beef in enoki, some more prawns, morning glory, scallops, oysters were also served. Beef dishes were too tough and tasteless. The scallops and oysters were doused in sauces as well. They seem to use the same sauce for the lobsters and for all other dishes.

Seafood was not fresh. The meat of the lobsters are rubbery, some batch was okay while others were less fresh. The spicy salt marinade is not bad as it's lighter in taste and less greasy than the cheese sauced lobsters. Doubt there's any cheese in the sauce, feels more like a mix of mayonnaise and something else.

We also ordered a side of fresh oysters, unfortunately the oysters were not fresh and I don't think it's sashimi grade oysters. It's tasteless without the test of brininess of the ocean that fresh oysters typically have.

We were also approached by the staff for review in exchange of a set of shots which we declined. We however, provided them with the feedback regarding the food. Not sure what they do with the...

Wow! This place is awesome. Location is fantastic; a cool rooftop bar and restaurant (retractable roof for if it is rainy) right on Nguyen Hue. I should have taken pictures of the interior but you can see the view! 99 By Night is trendy, spotlessly clean and just a space you want to spend more time in. The food was great. We had crab fried rice, seaweed salad and a mixed pork platter - all delicious. The service was exceptional, from the time you hop in the elevator to go up to the bar all the way through your evening. The lovely Nguyen Diem Quynh was our waitress. She gave us space but was also always attentive, ans was there the second we needed a top up from the beer tower or anything else. Thank you, Quynh! Highly recommend this place and we know we will be back, next time we are in this...

So many things went wrong I don't know where to start. We ordered starters and main courses. They brought my gf the starters and her dish,left me hanging, btw there were 3 (like three employees) taking notes (And selfies half meter from us) at one point I asked about my dish, imediate reply was 10 more mins, I asked for my starter they looked weirdly at me, took 2 steps back, talked amongst themselves, came back, 2 mins. 5 mins later in comes my starter, followed 1 min later by my main :/ My main had salad, in which I found several hair strains... Rain started, they moved us one table behind, helped with moving our food, but for some reason decided that we didn't need our sauces anymore, so they took them away :/ had to ask them back... Seeing how good reviews they had, idk why my order was so...