I like this place. There's a lot of restaurants in the Manuka area, but most of them are sit down…read morerestaurants. This place is a fast food place, but its better than a McDonalds. They have various Asian dishes, many with noodles. I like to get the Singapore noodles. Anyway, the food is good, its fast, its informal, and it's cheap. If that's not enough, they also have free wifi. When I find myself in the area and want something quick to eat, this is my go to place.

I had the hotbird burger with sweet potato chips and rosemary and salt chips…read more The hotbird is as the name suggests hot. While some may like it hot...I think this is too hot. The chilli paste is smothered on every inch of the bottom bun, so your tongue cannot escape the heat. It burns and after a while your taste buds become numb. The combination with sour cream should neutralise the heat but you need more sour cream and most probably some avocado for cooling. The sweet potato chips were more like skinned baked sweet potato and the rosemary and salt chips were okay. What made this a three stay experience was the sulky staff. They were extremely like they didn't want to be there and after a while I didn't want to be there either.

This could easily be 4 stars but gets knocked down to 3 for service. Tried the chicken goat cheese…read morepomegranate salad and the morrocan lamb burger. Burgee was nice. No sides with the burger :(. Ordered fried and herb mayo - thick and tasty chips. Sauce was yummy too. Pomegranate in salad had no flavour - must have boiled the heck out of them. Waitress sat us down for table service but she took so long to come back i ordered up at the counter. Give it a shot; maybe the service was a one off. Solid burger and fries.

I have been in the drive thru line for 20 minutes and still haven't gotten food…read more When I buy McDonald's I'd rather not have time to regret my poor life choice, but now I'm stuck in my own pool of self hatred. The poor girl working the drive thru looks like she is in hell on Earth.

Absolutely vile store - went in at around 9pm (store closes at 10pm) and one worker was mopping the…read morefloor with what looked like old dirty smelly water. Around 4-5 staff were in the kitchen area acting the fool and talking/joking with each other not doing any work, looking at tik Tim and skipping the Spotify song list playing on the speakers. None would care to emerge to serve at the counter despite knowing we were waiting there. After 5 mins a worker finally reluctantly emerged to the counter with a silly smirk on their face and didn't apologise or even ask may I help you, at which point we started the order. After taking the order, despite all the ordered food items being already cooked by the store sitting in the stainless steel warming trays (and no other customers inside or in the drive through), nothing was being served while they continued to act the fool in the back. One of the workers then went to the toilet and returned and the other workers started laughing (possibly tampering with the food). Finally, the worker mopping the floor without washing their hands went and packaged up the order and provided it to us (10 mins after ordering). Needless to say the bag of food was ditched as there was no way the unhygienically packed and possibly tampered food was going to be consumed. Absolutely vile store, floor and kitchen disgusting, workers lazy and obnoxious - should be inspected both by Health to see if it's compliant, but also by the franchise owner who needs to seriously sort out the reprehensible workforce at that store.

You have to be trying to get chips that bad. Zero care factor from staff. Server was too wrapped up…read moreeating her hash brown to speak to me when I was trying to get my drink! Chips were less than inedible. If I could give no stars I would.

Not to hate on Australia's pizza scene, but when some friends and I ordered some late-night pizza…read more(Domino's was the only place open) we were expecting something at least vaguely resembling the American late-night delivery pizza... big, cheap, and greasy (delicious). I think we paid around $50 for two pizzas (which only come in one size) and a side of chicken nugget things. I was expecting a feast at that price... But what we received were two depressingly small, cardboard-y pizzas about the same size as the 'personal pan' mini pizzas children can order back in the States for $5 each or so. The chicken was good, at least. I guess the late-night delivery and kitchen labor wages are higher here, and this necessitates the exorbitant pricing for what amounts to woefully subpar, undersized pizzas. Still, none of us will ever make the mistake of ordering late-night pizza here again. You're better off just eating an apple or something. On my next visit back home to the States I'll have to get a delivery pizza, with a newfound appreciation for a $15 pie that can comfortably feed 2-3 hungry adults.

Great food and the overall experience was great until I finished my meal, I asked for a napkin and…read moreI shit you not the manager told me "this isn't the napkin store" in the most negative tone I've experienced from anyone. 2 stars, would've been 5 if they got a decent manager.

Looking for a place to eat dinner in Manuka Canberra that caters for a vegan diet wasn't hard at…read moreall - Abell's Kopi Tiam offers a number of vegan and GF dishes alongside the standard animal offerings I chose Sayur Lemak - Nonya vegetarian curry combining seasonal vegies and tofu with boiled rice @ $22.50 The restaurant occupies a small space but it is used well, was full of peeps in a non-sitting week and full of life The staff were busy and attentive - this is your classic high volume - quick turnover operating model that keeps the wolf from the door The dish size was modest for the price - served hot both temperature wise and spicy (which I like) - the dish itself was tasty but I wasn't transformed - rather, this is good solid fare for the journey

Decent. A little…read moreexpressive ($23 to $31 for a main) but my meal was lovely. I had the vegetarian spring rolls and salt & pepper calamari. The spring rolls were great and the calamari was decent. You know how the calamari you get at fish & chip shops vs. the calamari you get at Chinese restaurants? This was kind of half way between. So decent but I've had better. I would give it another go but the price is holding me back a bit.