Wau Cafe

Wau Café has been on my radar for a while now, ever since Serbian Café, «Seb’s» shut down a while back. They offer traditional Malaysian food in a relaxed, no frills café style environment. Oh and they don’t have a booze licence, just in case that is a problem for some of you ;)
Firstly be warned, if you bring your cat, there will be no room to swing it as the place is teeny, but they’ve managed to ram around 6 tables in here. Even if the place is half full, you may feel slightly intimated as people are pretty much eating on top of you, therefore, they will be able to hear everything you are saying. Not a place for a romantic dinner then, remember that!
The floor is manned by a solitary, lackadaisical waiter, who seemed to struggle with the half full restaurant, so service was a tad slow. I don’t want to get the young chap into trouble but it did seem like he had been ‘puffing the magic dragon’ that night. My suspicions were confirmed when a glass was smashed (in this, the smallest café in Glasgow) and he didn’t hear it, so we kindly let him know. He seemed slightly surprised but happily dealt with the situation.
Unfortunately some of the food we ordered ended up being unavailable but were only told after 10 minutes of ordering, so it was a rush to pick something else but I just opted to swap the meat from my dish.
On to starters, the roti was great, but the chicken wings pretty tasteless and greasy. Also, it may be authentic in the far east but seeing hairs on a chicken wing doesn’t do it for me. Mains were packed full of flavour but unfortunately just didn’t taste that fresh. The mains we ordered seemed to have been cooked to death, or perhaps just reheated to oblivion.
The whole feel of the place is that they are still trying to find their feet but I have a strong feeling they could be on to something good here. But, certainly for the moment, they are still trying to discover their Wau factor.