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Came to Sabai Sabai twice. The food was very good for both visits. If you like sweet and savoury dishes, you'll like it here. I ordered their street style tossed noodles and it was delicious. My boyfriend and friend also ordered the massaman curry, Lao style chicken wings, tom yum soup, and squash fritters. Everything was pretty good but Pai's fritters IMO are better. Everyone seemed pretty happy.
Service - not sure if a server is assigned to a table because after your server takes your order they are never to be seen again. You have to wave down other servers to ask for assistance.
First time I came here it was quite busy but eventually things died down and before our mains came out, there were a few empty tables around us. My party ordered cocktails and didn't get them until they were halfway into their mains. They waved down servers a few times to ask when could they expect to receive them, they just said they're busy and the drinks will arrive soon. I didn't think their inattentiveness on this night was a big issue until my second visit.
Second time here, my party ordered, food came out pretty quickly, they dropped the dishes off at our table and took off. I finished my glass of water while I was eating and needed a refill but nobody came to check to see how things were going and staff avoided eye contact so they don't have to be asked for anything. My boyfriend gave me his glass of water since he had a beer. Whatever, things were going ok up until desserts.
My boyfriend, my friend, and I all ordered the mango sticky rice for dessert. However, one of the desserts looked like it was missing coconut sauce. The server also said he'll be back with two more spoons (for some reason he brought out 3 desserts and 1 spoon) and before he could take off like a bat out of hell, I requested a little more sauce and napkins. The server was impatient and irritated like asking for a little more sauce was too much trouble for him to deal with. He said I can find it under the mango. We lifted up the mango and there wasn't much sauce action going on underneath. He came up with some lame excuse that everything is portion controlled and set, and he'll try to ask the kitchen. He tossed the spoons and napkins down and never came back, we searched the restaurant and he was chatting up another table (probably to take their order so he can pull a Houdini on them too). My friend took one for the team and ate the sticky rice with the two drops of sauce. At the end of the night after we paid the bill, they asked if we wanted a water refill. We didn't need refills after we paid the bill, we needed it during our meal... also when my friend had to choke down the dry sticky rice.
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