Wau

Waited 30min for the food, waitress didn’t say anything at all. It was 1:30pm and I didn’t expect this at all. Focus, focus on food. I ordered morning glory (kangkung fried with dried shrimp and chilli sauce), the morning glory was chopped too long, feeling like horse eating row grass. The vegetable was chosen too mature, thus the texture in mouth was awful. I had Hainan chicken rice, which is a famous dish of Malaysia. Chicken was served warm, I immediately got this was cooked by someone called ‘outsider’ the man who never been to Malaysia or someone don’t know Malaysian cookery at all. So I was right, it was different version of the Hainan Chicken Rice — a rather creative version. My party had fried rice, it wasn’t too bad but we both agreed this is not a great restaurant at all. Don’t go.

Fun location and good food overall. Service and billing issues took away from it being great.

Always looking for good Malaysian food and this place does not disappoint! Satay with an incredible peanut sauce, nasi goren and lamb curry were great! Beautiful presentation of the dishes were appreciated. Agree with other Unilocalers that the service was a bit slow but the staff were pleasant and the place was packed!

I’ve been looking for a Malaysian-​Singaporean restaurant in Amsterdam for some time now and was hoping that I’d found one. The menu looked good enough — they had all the correct names of the dishes in both Malay and Chinese dialect, which was enough draw me there for a visit. Unfortunately, Wau just wasn’t authentic. The Char Kway Teow dish I ordered looked sort of like the real thing but tasted nothing like it was supposed to and it was incredibly salty. I guess this might be okay for people who don’t mind westernised, MSG-​laden Asian food (on the salty side, really salty) but for me, it was greatly disappointing. If you are a Singaporean or Malaysian hoping for a taste of home, don’t bother.

Me and my malaysian wife went to this nice little restaurant. I truly enjoyed my udang petai and rice but my better half wasn’ t too happy with her lasksa because instead of proper glass noodles they used ‘spaghetti like’ noodles which took a little away from the authenticity of the dish. Fast service.

Super restaurant ! On y a été à 5, on a tous pris des trucs différents et on était tous super contents ! :D
Première fois que je mange malaysien et ce né sera pas la dernière !

Lovely little place with excellent kitchen. Be aware: when it says spicy, it’s SPICY !! You can’t go wrong with any of the dishes, and you can always sake the super nice crew to recommend something. And the Satay is an excellent choice in general, and also for people who are a little intimidated. But try the goat or live ones…

Second time here and still the win me with their food
Of course the problem i have with these restaurants is that i never remember the name of the plates i order buuuuuut this time i know that what i ordered is the national plate of Malay
It has literally eeeeeeverything in there… meat fish veggies nuts eggs and rice super yummy and super filling. As always the service was amazing and the girls were so helpful on explaining everything to us … Definetelly worth a visit

I thought the food itself was quite good, even though it didn’t WOW me… but the service was the wrong kind of WOW… like the WOW, they are actually ignoring us! The national dish is a nice combination of flavors. I’d say… if you’re feeling patient… why not stop in for some good food.

As corny as it sounds Wau is like WOW, KAPOW, ZEEZEEZOW!
How is it possible this place only has so few reviews, yet is on Zeedijk waiting to Wau people with Malaysian delicacies?!
With the unfortunate low number of Malay places, you might be asking yourself… what exactly IS Malaysian food?
Let’s just say when you mix Indonesian/​Chinese/​Indian and of course traditional Malay… you get an interesting mixture of exotic asian flavors sure to make your hello kitty, peace sign, picture taking taste buds love you long time!
When you look at the menu, you’ll probably see some similar items… grilled meat sate sticks, nasi goreng… and then the rest, you might be like HUH?! I haven’t had everything on the menu, but I can tell you my favorites so far!
Nasi Lemak (The national Malaysian dish) — This is a crazy combination of small fried anchovies, egg, chicken curry, beef stew, veggies, sambal (spicy shrimp paste), and peanuts, all sitting campfire style kumbaya-​ing around a semi-​spherical mound of coconut rice. Traditionally, you take a little of each in one bite and eat it with the rice, but I love the flavors of them separately so definitely give both eating styles a chance! I like everything sitting on this banana leaf plate, but the beef stew has soooo much flavor and combined with the crispy mini anchovies and rice is delish! One more time… DEEEEELISH!
Char Kway Teow (Or something like this…) — If you see something on the menu with fried rice noodles, prawns, bean spouts, egg, chicken topped with fried shallots… something like that… GET IT! Wow… I mean… Wau it’s yummy! The noodles are so fat, they are unrecognizable… I’m talking fruit roll-​up girth here folks. Either way, they are soaked with flavor and our table devoured this in no less than 6.3 minutes!
Bottom line, I’ve been here twice, tried different plates each time, never have been disappointed. The prices are a little higher than I would thought (14 – 18) but for getting something different and super lekker, I WILL be back for more Malaysian Sensation!!!

A small, easy to find place on a busy street. The food is authentic. No scale back for the uninitiated. The laksa hit the right spot for me. Could add a few more desert items. Overall, a great place to go for a quick meal that you know you will enjoy.

The restaurant is small and dimly lit and the décor is that of tropical celebration.
It has been more than a month since I visited this nice restaurant in Zeedijk. I can’t remeber the name of the dish I had anymore but it was delicious.
They use coconut in many of their dishes (probably because it is like that in Malay cusine) which I am not a big fan of, but that is just me.
It think it is probably a mom and pop run establishment. The food was tasty and very good. So was the service.
No fancy over sized glittering plate with tiny little food scattered on it in this restaurant :-) :-) They serve good portions of the dish you order, more than enough to fulfil your hunger for taste and food. The price is reasonable as well.
It can get quite busy here later in the evening. So if you want to check in without a reservation on a week end, be a bit early like 7 o clock. It is always better to call ahead and reserve.