Hello Please

Incredibly tasty food that I highly recommend. We had the sandcrab on betle leaf, lobster dumplings, reef fish, red dragon tofu and greens. Everything had incredible flavour and cooked to perfection. Staff are friendly and welcoming. The restaurant has a ramp making it accessible for all. Overall a thoroughly enjoyable dinner!

Dinner at Hello Please last night prior to QPAC. One of the most ordinary Asian (claimed) food restaurants I have experienced. Good points were pleasant attentive and focused wait staff and quite fast delivery of food ordered. The good bits finished there. The “background” music was so loud you could hardly talk over it, which was probably good because the table are so close you couldn’t talk privately. The wine list extensively is you wanted it by the bottle. There were, from memory, only three reds offered by the glass and no shiraz offered. The food came one dish at a time and the rice last with the greens, well after the meat/fish dishes. The portion sizes were exceedingly small with the crab betel very accurately described as a small dish. The pricing however didn’t match the portion size! Very disappointing as I really enjoy Asian, particularly Vietnamese food. I’ll just stick with the many other high quality Asian restaurants in the area. Not Hello Please rather Goodbye Thanks!

I came here because I am a huge fan of bao and wanted to try their eggplant katsu bao. Hello Please easily takes the title of "Worst Baos in Brisbane". The baos itself are cold, soggy, flavourless and rather than the large, fluffy bun folded over the filling which they show in their product picture you get this tiny blob of dough that is cut in half. I don't know if they make them themselves but I bet they just thaw them since they don't taste fresh at all. Not much to say about the filling since the egg plant katsu doesn't have much flavour at all and the bit of salad they slap on there neither. The only thing you will notice is the sauce. I have no idea where they were going with this but it just tastes sour. And not in a zesty kind of way but rather with a flavour that reminds me of throwing up on an empty stomach. Most shockingly, the two small baos shown in the picture plus a small soft drink (which was 80% ice) cost me a whooping $19!!! That should be the price for a very decent large lunch with high-quality ingredients. This "dish" plus drink is worth half of that tops. Good thing my husband had cooked when I came home because even as a small woman in my 20s this did not fill me up and I expect a man would have to spend around $40-50 for a full meal here. Extremely disappointing and won't be back.

Is this place for fine dining or a simple eatery? I believe Hello Please itself does not know. The food, while expensive, is delicious. The flavours were perfectly balanced in each meal, and it's exactly what I expected for such a price. However, the cheap décor and strange service left a lot to be desired. I was not treated respectfully by the wait staff when they spoke to me, and they constantly rushed to clear my table multiple times, even when my plate still had food on it! Then they still ask for a tip, in Australia, for poor service. Avoid.

Came to support local business as the residents of South Brisbane community. However it was a bit disappointed. Overall, the taste of dishes were not bad, specially the authentic Asian sources. But the drink was tasteless (it supposed to be orange and mint flavour). We really didn’t like the service here, we were arranged in a very small table, even we asked to change, they said no. It was too dark to know what I was eating (I thought only my camera known as I took photos🤣). Further, they just couldn’t wait to give the bill to us and send us out of the place! I never encountered such a situation even we hadn’t finished our drinks. I would say it was not worth the price here.