Malaysian-Filipino café Yes Lah has received a deluge of online support after it appealed to followers to be kind online. Owners of the café, which opened recently in Didsbury, made the comments after receiving negative reviews online.
“We are aware that not everything we do will be everyone's cup of tea. Cooking food with flavours that may be unfamiliar to some may not be what everyone likes, and guess what, that's ok!” they said. “On the flip side.. you might come to yes lah due to wanting those familiar flavours. Food is a powerful thing, in fact it's the reason we are here.
“The search for authenticity is a hard one. In fact the reason we don't say authentic in any of our messaging is because it's problematic. We are not in Malaysia or The Philippines so what we are cooking isn't ‘authentic’. We are in the UK, using English produce, it will never be what you ate from a Hawker stall in Penang or what you ate in your mum's kitchen in Manila. If you are coming to eat in places searching for this, sadly your expectations may be unrealistic.”
