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Big thank you to Ahmad, his team @ Cafe Lokum for welcoming us, providing best of the best service ever got, food so yummy and filling, totally joyful guy, would prefer people for visit, next trip down for canoeing will be coming for another feed. 🥰🥰

Find was average. Dumplings in the noodle soup was tasteless. The fried calamari was good. Sat at the tables in the front, became full of them, bruised my knee getting up.

Food was excellent, service spectacular...despite being closed they've opened up just for us, cooked a special meal and it was amazing. Highly recommend place to eat

This restaurant has giving me a great curiosity and challenged me to have a lunch here: 1. Why someone named a restaurant a FORBIDDEN CITY? It's very COOL like a movie title, but it's not. 2. It have a neon sign when open, even in the afternoon. It's weird but interesting for me! 3. the interior was not very inviting but at the same time very authentic?? 4. And then.. Serving an authentic chinese peking duck as a recommended menu?? 5. Some of the so-called Halal food wasn't leave a good impressions but okay I give it a try. I came with my wife on her birthday because she's craving peking duck from a long time, and we growing curiosity in this restaurant together. We ordered Roasted duck and Corn soup. The soup arrived first. My impressions is positive. The flavour was balanced. When you put some soy sauce and chilli oil, it hits different!! It was very perfect because we eating when outside is rainy so it warm our mouth, head and body. The roasted pecking duck became our "main course", along with the rice. We are very overwhelmed with the flavour. It's juicy, delicious, crispy skin... We could never want anything more than this!! The last bite still feel it's was first bite.. What an experience. When we finished and wanna pay, I never expected this: they selling the chilli oil!! Chilli oil here is very mandatory and never skip this on every meals here. Forbidden City is a proof that your restaurant doesn't have to be a gimmicky interior and striking sign to be a good restaurant. The name itself, the food, is enough reason to you why you should stop here and go home with the stuffed stomach. Very recommended.

The wait was long, but man their fish n chips are amazing. Even Kumara fritters. Love it