Picture this: it’s past midnight, you’re starving, just recovering from a fever, and you’ve been dealing with problem after problem all day.
You sit down at a restaurant, flip open the menu, and a gorgeous, glistening beef steak stares back at you. You order it. You wait.
What arrives is… not that.
That’s exactly what happened to a Malaysian diner who goes by @cuaaaaaoraite._ on Threads, and their post has since racked up nearly half a million views
The original Threads post was blunt, as any good food complaint should be:
If you want to do business, please don’t use AI images. Imagine someone who’s hungry, stressed out with problems one after another, and ends up getting food like this; truly disappointed. Hard, chewy, not even hot.”
Alongside the rant, the poster shared two photos side by side: the restaurant’s menu featuring a thick, beautifully plated beef steak photo and what actually landed on their table: a flattened, deeply overcooked, wafer-thin piece of beef.
With crinkle-cut fries. And a little sauce cup. Broccoli, respectfully trying its best in the corner.
Speaking to WeirdKaya, the woman shared that the incident happened in Johor Bahru at around 1.36am while she was recovering from fever.
She explained that she had been feeling hungry and exhausted when she decided to order the steak meal.
According to her, the biggest disappointment was the portion itself.
I didn’t expect it to look exactly like the picture, but I also didn’t expect it to arrive looking like that.”
When the meal first arrived, she said she was left completely speechless.
“Speechless.”
She also revealed that the RM23 price already included the side dishes shown in the meal.
However, she described the steak as tough and not tasty.
“t was chewy and didn’t taste good.”
Due to feeling unwell at the time, she did not complain to the restaurant staff.
Still, the experience appears to have completely turned her off from returning.
First and last time going there.”
The woman also responded to comments from netizens who felt RM23 was too cheap to expect a “proper steak”.
I didn’t expect the steak to be thick, but I also didn’t expect it to be that thin.”
According to her, the main issue was the menu photo being misleading, while the portion itself was also unsatisfying.
The post quickly gained traction online, with many netizens joking about how thin the meat looked.
One commenter wrote:
“My God, the meat is as thin as faith.”
The woman jokingly replied:
“My faith is still thicker than this.”
Another netizen said the meal looked so different from the menu photo that it “felt like throwing the plate at the chef’s face”.
Others, however, pointed out that the menu already included a disclaimer stating that the:
“Pictures are for illustration purposes only. Even with this disclaimer, if the reality is too far from the image, you can report to consumer rights. Especially since the picture shown is not steak but is actually beef bacon strips, I know because I work in F&B. And it’s overcooked, dry as bark, served as beef.”
Some also defended the restaurant, saying RM23 is relatively cheap for steak and expectations should be adjusted accordingly.
“A real quality steak won’t cost RM20 to RM40. If you want a proper juicy steak, prepare at least RM60 and above.”
The woman later clarified that she was not expecting the dish to look exactly like the photo, but felt the beef slices were simply “too thin”.
She also shared that she only decided to order the meal around 1.30am after recovering from a fever and feeling extremely hungry.
“Agreed but I don’t think that’s AI, the more correct term would be false advertising. They probably grabbed actual food photos from Google and placed them there, when in reality they can’t serve the exact same food. Still, this would ruin my day too.”
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