KUALA LUMPUR: A Japanese YouTuber recently visited comedian Nigel Ng’s restaurant called Fuiyoh! It’s Uncle Roger but ended up with an experience that she says she’ll never repeat.
Lukian Wang, the woman behind the CookingBoBo YouTube channel, recently uploaded a video of her visit to the diner on Instagram and YouTube, saying that she’s a fan of Mr Ng and that she likes fried rice, a dish that the comic talks about a lot.
The first thing that struck her was the long queue at the restaurant in spite of her arrival 40 minutes before it was scheduled to open.
She was one of the first ones to get in. But to her surprise, more than half of the items on the menu were already sold out, despite it being early in the day.
She received the first item among her orders—hot lemon tea—around 20 minutes in. Ms Wang found the cup “really cute,” though far from what was advertised.
Still, at that point, perhaps anticipating her meal would be served soon, she just laughed it off but “didn’t realize it was going to get much worse.”
Fifty minutes into her arrival at Fuiyoh! It’s Uncle Roger and she still hadn’t gotten her fried rice. Bored, she decided to go live on social media, and attempted to distract and amuse herself.
After an hour of waiting, her food arrived.
“Tears of joy. I was so hungry,” she said, but added, “So now you know if you see a queue outside Uncle Roger’s restaurant, it’s not because it’s popular, it’s because of the slow service.”
Ouch.
And when the people at the next table asked Ms Wang if the friend rice is indeed the best in town, she answered that it was probably the best at that specific moment because she was so hungry.
She added later that it was the best fried rice in town after having fasted for 15 hours.
“Needless to say, I won’t recommend this to anyone who’s not a content creator invited by Uncle Roger himself,” she said, citing the good service these influencers received.
“But if you’re going in as a nobody small potato, they won’t give a s**t,” she said flatly at the end.
According to Goody Malaysia, which recently shared Ms Wang video on TikTok in full, Mr Ng has since apologised for the long wait at the restaurant and promised that the service would improve.
Ms Wang is not the first person with this specific criticism, however, and the eatery has received mixed reviews online since its opening. /TISG
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