CoCo Ichibanya Vietnam - Bến Thành — Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

We ordered fries, tempura, two curries, and ice cream.

The fries and tempura arrived first. After that, one curry came much later, almost after I had finished the first one. The second curry for my friend came afterward. My friend suggested I start eating before my food got cold since the restaurant was quite chilly.

The curry was good but kinda small ( In my openion) As for the ice cream, it resembled more of a slush than actual ice cream.

Unfortunately, the server had difficulty with English. For example, when I asked for a Coke, she said they didn’t have it. I glanced to my right and noticed someone else with a Pepsi-Cola

I thought, "Hmm… maybe they consider that to be cola," and I asked for it. However, she still insisted they didn’t have it.

I then mentioned, "I don’t mind if it’s a different brand; I know you have Coke and would like to order it."

After that, when I pointed to the drinks list on the menu, she asked, "Oh, a Pepsi?"

Yea thats a coke a said.

She looked confused and still didn’t seem to understand me.

When I tried to order ice cream, the menu only said: two or three kinds. I asked the server about the flavors, because on the menu, they dont mention any Flavours.

I pointed to the five different scoops with various colors. Surely, the brown one was chocolate, the white/yellow one was vanilla, and the pink one was strawberry.

I inquired about the other two scoops pictured on the left, which were white mixed with brown and pink with a little red on top.

The server said, "That’s vanilla."

I asked, "that is also vanilla? But what’s the brown stuff inside?"

The server looked confused and replied, "Vanilla?"

I asked again, "Are you sure? Do you have a menu where the flavors are written? I think my language might be confusing you."

She repeated, "Vanilla."

I said, "So there are only three flavors?"

She replied, "Yeah?"

I asked, "Then why does it look so different from the usual vanilla picture on the right?"

She answered, "Oh, that one is sold out."

I responded, "Oh, so you do have more than three flavors?"

The server insisted, "No."

I said, "So you don’t have vanilla anymore?"

She replied, "Yes, we do have vanilla…"

At that point, I gave up and said, "Just give me that then…"

The other customers laughed a little and said: dont worry we also had a lot of...

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