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| - We love Indonesian food and after reading the great reviews for this place, our expectations were high.
The grilled fish and the mustard greens were delicious, and the Rendang tacos were good, if on the cold side. But the Nasi Goreng was inedible, due to what we both agreed was an over-abundance of something salty, kecap manis, perhaps, or maybe fish sauce. It was blood- pressure-raisingly salty, as if the salt shaker had fallen into the wok. Anyway, we asked if they could redo it. A few seconds later, the server brought back our partially eaten bowl and said "the chef prepares it to his own taste so if he made it again it would probably be the same". I.e. you don't know wtf you're talking about. Even if it WAS the way it was supposed to be (and I'm pretty sure it wasn't) I would have thought the kitchen might try to make an adaptation for a customer who found the dish inedible. And if the chef had too much attitude to to fix the problem, the server could at least simply offered to take it off our bill, rather than try to "educate" us, or pass on the kitchen's message.
Then, to add insult to injury, at the end of our meal, I got up to go get our car, as my partner had an injury and couldn't walk. Clearly, the staff had pegged us as troublemakers, and failing to see that one of us was still at the table, and pulling out his wallet settle the bill, one of the servers yelled out "You need to PAY sir!", as if I was dining and dashing.
I think I will wait 'til I'm in Amsterdam again before trying Indonesian food, methinks.
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