The best Asian meal I have ever had,this coupled with excellent service makes this restaurant a"must go again soon"venue.
There was actually a hair in food but I’m sure it was a rare occurrence for them and they gave me a discount because of it. Overall this place is amazing and all the food is great. Really good vibes.
I hadn't been back to this place in 3-4 years but had a hankering for vietnamese one warm night. Little NNQ is always a reliable, cheap and quick option in C/Town. Two entrees (banh mi, mini beef noodle soup), two large mains (fried chicken, slow-cooked duck), rice, two non-alcoholic drinks came swiftly and all up was under $80.
Quick service and good food. We ordered few starters and a main which was enough for 2 of us. Prefer dining in or user eats - it is worth a try.
A friend referred us to little NNQ and I was a lil hesitant to go thinking it would be very fine dine and little did we know that the food is not only good but affordable as well. Not only taste but quantity to every dish was also good. Staff was courteous and prompt. Tried one of the cocktails also and was good too.
Definitely one of the best Vietnamese restaurants in Adelaide. Been to their original restaurant in woodville and I have to say this branch does live up to the their standard. Definitely go for their sugar cane prawn cold roll on your visit here.
Went here last night with a bunch of friends of varying dietary needs including a vegan and one who has never ventured further than pub meals. We loved the food and also had an extra member and this was no problem.
I had the beef noodle soup and sugar prawn cold rolls both *Delicious*. The boy had the fried chicken (of course) with satay sauce LOVED IT!!! Other dishes were salt and pepper eggplant, Nasi Goreng, tofu with tomatoes and the beef salad. Everyone was impressed with the flavour and portion size. Great location warm and busy so you can relax and have a great bite.
The staff could be a bit nicer but not a massive problem as the food was great!! Definitely going back.
Just like the bigger NNQ in Woodville only smaller e.g. smaller premises and smaller menu.
Still plenty of tasty items to order, generally good value for money.
Consistently good all round.
Very friendly service and generally busy so arrive early as they don`t take bookings
Quality fresh great Vietnamese food. Much smaller then the Woodville location hence the name however the decor and set up in the inside is beautiful. I had a noodle bowl and it was so fresh! I loved every minute of it. My friend is a vegan and she has ease finding meals to suit her needs and the waiter was very helpful to reassure the ingredients. Awesome time, awesome meal
Fresh, fast and tasty roll your own rice paper rolls! Definitely my go to when I come here! Full of flavour and cane out so fast! The back area was nice and quiet, and the staff were lovely
I ordered for asian platter which had springrolls,ricerolls,satays!!
Food was pretty good,beef rolls were lil dry though!!
Staff was attentive but were not aware about the menu, when asked any questions about it.
All time favourite Vietnamese restaurant in Adelaide. Absolutely love all their dishes. Must try if you're in the city. Service is good & the ambience is great.
Love this place, can’t fault it. I go almost every month and it’s always good. Only thing I can fault is that you can’t book. Also not good for first dates or meetings as it’s very loud. Try the Pork Belly Clay Pot with eggs it’s amazing
After many times visiting NNQ Woodville I thought I'd try out Little NNQ for a quick work lunch. The menu was much smaller but still a good selection to choose from. Welcoming staff, dishes came out reasonably quick and tasty. Although lovely I have to say I my fave is still the Woodville restaurant.
awesome lunch menu, tasted delicious, came out very quickly and great service. will be coming back on a regular basis. keep up the good work!
Good vietnamese food. We ordered few different dishes and all were really delicious 😋 happy to visit here again. Recommend for anyone looking for Vietnamese restaurant
Little NNQ is a place we’ve passed many times and it always looks full. An offshoot of the original Nghi Ngan Quan in Woodville, this place has fast become a popular dining spot the restaurants filled Gouger Street. Everytime I think of having Vietnamese food I only ever seek out Pho or Bun Bo Hue so it was a bit different ordering dishes that night.
Fantastic food at low prices, lovely staff and quick food service. Highly recommend this restaurant. We had a group of 13 and they were very accommodating
A great vietnamese restaurant. Sometime the service isnt up to scratch but other times its great.
I love the menu and how everything can be shared easily.
Little NNQ is pretty close to my place so I'm a regular customer. Nice environment and atmosphere. All dishes are decent, especially the quail,they also have some nice noodle soup. However,their soft drinks, not so much.
Good little vietnamese restaurant, fast service food is tasty the lunch menu was extremely cheap and the viet ca-fę is really good, kept me buzzing for the rest of the arvo.
The best restaurant I've been to in the last 2 years. Awesome atmosphere and interior design to go along with beautiful food, so tasty, authentic and the value for money is absolutely fantastic. Couldn't recommend it enough. Make sure to book, however, it is very full at prime time.
Had a really delicious dinner here! We sat on the balcony upstairs which was well heated and comfortable. Doesnt quite compare to the old place in woodville but still good flavours and service.
Pho is a little oily but nice. Spring rolls are amazing. Service is good and friendly. Easy to find. Finding a car park is a little awkward but being on Hinley Street is understandable. Overall no major complaints. Happy to go back again.
Eat Play Love Travel
+3.5
Little NNQ seems a little out-of-place on Gouger Street. With its wood paneling, more exposed brick and Thomas Edison light bulb pendants, its décor is very modern, very typically now. The Vietnamese restaurant would seemingly be more at home on uber cool Peel Street than amongst the stalwarts of Gouger Street.
However, the food is right at home on the Asian eat street, and being the offspring of Ferryden Park’s popular Vietnamese restaurant, Nghi Ngan Quan, I would expect so. In fact, our spring rolls, salt and pepper oyster mushrooms, and stuffed squid with tomato sugo were so good my eating partner Alison nearly ate it all while I was telling a big long, overinflated story. Stop talking! More eating!
For me, Little NNQ (which is not so little, with a front courtyard, back courtyard, upstairs and downstairs) is a very welcome face alongside my Gouger Street favourites. You just might need to remind the waiter that water is a handy commodity, as is an ice bucket for our Fiano left sitting to warm on the table.
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Third time here for dinner. On a Wednesday night at 6.30pm the place was packed with punters and the atmosphere was buzzing. Seated at the back with no reservation, we got lucky. As I walked passed the kitchen I noticed the army of people in there working away in unison. Usually there are around 3 or 4 chefs/cooks in a Asian restaurant but there seemed to be at least 10 in there ! Our food and the food of the surrounding tables came out within minutes of ordering. Perhaps If you're looking for a slow romantic dinner, this is not the place. But this pace suited us fine. There was sharp piece of plastic in one of the cold rolls around the size of 5c coin. A bit of a nasty surprise. Made no fuss and told the waiter who quickly apologised and took the entree of the bill.
The pork belly never fails. Massive almost fist size chunks of melt in the mouth pork belly. Fried snapper wasn't what we expected. Very chewy. Nice flavours and big portion. Exotic rice at $15 could of been a tiny bit more. Delicious though. The small hipster jam jars for your water is a little yesterday, I would of preferred a normal glass. The water is flavoured with cumbers which is nice. I will return. Stella our waitress was ... Stella !
Its a nice place, good ambience. service was good and hardly waited 5 minutes for the food to arrive. There is a different set of menu , lunch and dinner which serves different items. Hence, had the combination rice with the pork chop which was crispy and moist. Also greatly recommend the vermicelli salad with the combination of spring rolls, beef, Sugar cane prawn and grilled pork balls. All the individual components were done well and the meat was marinated well. Would definitely return again for more.
Massive and delicious servings! Staff were happy enough to let me take my food home in a doggy bag, as there was so much! For $25 I got 3 amazing spring rolls, a mini Bahn mi and a giant combination noodle salad! Incredibly low prices, and delicious and large servings of food! Will definitely be back.
Banquet with a large group of people. Great and friendly service. Great variety of food, all fresh and a little different to your standard vietnamese restaurant. The vietnamese expresso martini is a must.
Had the salt and pepper mushrooms and prawns with veggies. Really tasty. Everything was fresh and service was fast and friendly. Definitely will return here.
The combination vermicelli salad is hands down one of the best lunches I've ever had. The portion size is outrageous and the flavours and array of ingredients is phenomenal.
I love this place the food and service is great. The fresh make yourself rice paper rolls are delist. We also had pho, special rice, salt pepper squid, chicken curry and the fillet steak. The steak is the best. Will return next time I'm Adelaide
We had a late lunch on Friday arvo. The restaurant was not busy when we walked in but many people followed after. There was only one staff present hence it took him a while to bring the menus. I ordered the vegetarian spring rolls for appetisers. The homemade lemonade was good and complemented our meals. I ordered the caramelised prawns and salt and pepper squid with steam rice. The prawns were bug snd tasty and enjoyed the sauce. The salt and pepper squid was yummy too. Great meal and were glad to have eaten here!
Just stopped in for a quick lunch in this little homely feeling place and the quick stop was treated with very fast service. I choose the traditional huè spiced beef/pork noodle soup and it was fantastic. Not normally a dish I would go for, but glad I did. Luck I only had the 1 dish as it was huge, tasty and authentic. Would like to try more of the menu another day👏. 👍😀
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Went here, again because of the mention in the 2016 restaurant guide from a travelling gourmet magazine. We ushered upstairs to a very unappealing area (wine boxes and storage area were next to the eating area) but were not disappointed once the food arrived.We had the chicken curry (a more subtle and flavoursome version of a green curry) absolutely delicious, we were even savouring the broth and working out the spices used.The silken tofu was silken (often tofu is lumpy/solid) - delightful and the tomato sauce was nice but the tomato flavour was subdued.The chilli salt squid (aka calamari rings) was nice and spicy - though a little chewy ( was unable to tell if it was fresh (eg fish markets) or frozen/commercially supplied.The exotic rice was a very welcome change from 'special fried rice.'The service was friendly, helpful and very professional.An unexpected delight/pleasure was found here. My experience of Vietnamese is usually local Pho restaurants so this was my first venture to a more formal Vietnamese restaurant and we were definitely not disappointed. It made for a wonderful dinner for our last night in Adelaide.Would highly recommend Little NNQ for anyone looking for a great dining experience on Gouger Street or in the CBD area.
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I really want to come back to little NNQ. I think what I ate was good but didn't tap into their full potential- I know this because I went with a group of friends and half the table ordered things to share and the other half ordered differently- the envy running through my veins at what the other half had ordered was immense.
Shared the cold rolls first and what a way to start- huge size and a great talking point and I really think people love getting involved in experiences when out together.
The salt and pepper mushrooms were fab- like nothing I've ever tried and a texture not dissimilar to squid.
The noodles of course were a knockout and I could eat them alone every day for the rest of forever.
So the silken tofu was in a sugo that I think was too sweet and seemed a bit artificially thickened.
Down the other end of the table the duck and banana blossom salad, pork belly and curry were all calling my name so I'll have to come back to try those because the smells were so amazing.
Great service
Great night.
I have been here multiple times, and have always been impressed with my meal. The food is always really tasty and has that lovely fresh, clean and wholesome feel about it.
I believe the hype! No wonder you have to book to get into this place. Every one of us loved our dishes, loved our drinks and the atmosphere is excellent. I couldn't possibly pick on anything. Prices are ridiculously cheap for the quality and quantity of food!
Best spring rolls in town!
I have been here twice now and both times were amazing! It's a busy little place, but definitely worth it!
Authentic flavours with a modern twist, and reasonably priced.
Everything we ordered at our table was delicious. Really loved the salt & pepper oyster mushrooms, and of course those crispy spring rolls! Another fave was the caramelized pork belly, not sure what the eggs were coated in but they were absolutely AMAZING! Can't wait to try the whole menu!
Very busy restaurant, and once you try it you'll see why. Reasonably priced, moorish and fresh flavoursome food, and delicious cocktails. Great night out!
This place has been on my list of places to try for a long time, so I was very excited to finally make it here and first impressions didn’t disappoint. Decked out with wood, exposed brick and funky newspaper wallpaper, it is upmarket and funky but in a bustling and cosy sort of way. While Little NNQ is, as the name implies, little, they do have seating space outside plus a second upstairs area plus balcony.
Angie-Marie Piantadosi
+4.5
we were lucky enough to walk in and get a table on a super busy Saturday night and we are so glad we did! we went with the waiters recommendations and ordered what they had suggested and everything was AMAZING! the exotic fried rice is to die for and was my favorite dish of the night! the wait staff were really nice and insightful teaching us how to eat certain dishes.
You might want to make a reservation if you're heading over during peak hours. I have been here for a few dinners ever since its opening and each time, I was very satisfied. Love the idea of making your own cold rolls and the options available were delicious~ banana blossom salad was eye opening and the jellyfish salad was really fresh. Definitely worth going back again AND again!
One of the best things to ever happen to Adelaide, Little NNQ!!! If you havn't been here before then it is a MUST. If you've been there 10 times before then go 10 more. The food & atmosphere is great. The Oyster Mushrooms are to die for!
The Streets Of Adelaide
+5
I love Little NNQ. It's super fresh Vietnamese food. The soft shell crab is so delicious and tangy. Love the wanton soup entree as well. The duck salad is also one of my favourites. It's relatively new compared to a lot of places on Gouger but it's one of my favourites. I also like the fried rice, it could be a meal in itself as it is so packed with meat. Be sure to book though as it's super popular.
Suddenly got the crave for some bun bo hue, so I decided to pop over to Little NNQ. First thing that strikes me was the brilliant interior of Little NNQ, it was poppy and had a modern feel. The food came out quite quickly and staff was extremely helpful and attentive. The bun bo hue, i got to say is one of the best i've eaten in Adelaide. It was bursting with flavour and the striking red colour of the broth showed how naturally spicy it is. Really great food for any occassion.
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Is it just me or do you also find that when you have a favourite restaurant for a particular cuisine you sometimes can't help but compare everything back to what you feel is the benchmark.
This is the predicament I found myself in with Little NNQ. Every dish I ate I was automatically (and perhaps unfairly) being mentally compared back to my favourite Vietnamese haunt in the Western suburbs. Every dish I ate went something like this: "it's good but it not as good as...."
So, if you have never had the Viet foodie experience before Little NNQ will comfortably tick the box. Everything is tasty and fresh. It's good. For me though, I won't be rushing back simply because I think there is better quality, more legit / authentic and better value venues doing this food only 15 min drive out of the city.
Before I depart I must share a foodie first for me. When I walked in and asked for a table for four the young waiter guy behind the counter got out a pen and a scrap of paper and wrote me a little note. With his smiling face he held it up for me to read " I have lost my voice. Someone will come soon" ha, voiceless waiters. Not ideal but pretty funny.
Worth a visit if you are not in a position to travel down to that otherworld that is Hanson road to get your Viet foodie fix.
Excellent modern Vietnamese in a beautiful restaurant. I could go here just for the salt & pepper oyster mushrooms and morning glory! The salads are great, too. But damn those mushrooms are amazing!! The staff are really friendly, too. Excellent wine list.
I'm always intrigued by the menu at Little NNQ, they've got some interesting things that you wouldn't normally see in addition to the classics. It's always so busy but the service is always above average and they get meals out reasonably quickly. Yum!
If you love good fusion, then Little NNQ is a must do. Great service, great service and excellent prices.
The staff here understand gluten free and they even have gluten free spring rolls - something we haven't been able to find any where else.
The wine list could be better, but the food makes up for the brevity of the stone list.
Highly recommended.
My wife and I went in for a late dinner one night and were quickly seated and served. Food was tasty and service was good without any delays. Highly recommended.
Excellent. Good food, quick service, excellent little restaurant. Glad we tried it - we had lots to choose from!
Currently my favourite!. This place is currently my favourite restaurant - I'm also not so into the jam jars for drinking, but the food is absolutely divine so I couldn't care less about what I'm drinking from.
The tamarind soft shell crab is delicious. I think it's great value for money, I've always been impressed with very friendly, smiley service. Have chosen Little NNQ for (roughly) 10 of the last 12 times we'v eaten out. Can't get enough!!
OMG best spring rolls ever!!! And I don't even like spring rolls!
Food came out really fast which was great. Looked and tasted very fresh. Had the chilli squid-yum, spring rolls, slow cooked beef stew, chicken curry and the lemongrass pork belly. I have to say that most dishes were nice and flavorsome and well proportioned but the chicken curry was quite bland and the pork belly was overcooked.
We did have to chase our bottle of wine that we ordered a couple of times and I do agree with the other review on here... Why are we drinking out of old jam jars? Trendy...? Perhaps. Practical...? No.
Fabulous every time!. We come here every time we are in Adelaide and have never been disappointed! It's well priced and always delivers, on both food and service! Love, love, love it!!
Have been wanting to try the younger Little NNQ for a while. Not disappointed at all. Service was a little slow to start but once we we ordered the food came thick and fast. Sugar cane prawn cold rolls with spicy dip.....yum! Duck and banana blossom salad....yum! Fresh and aromatic ingredients. Pork belly great and stuffed squid quite good. We left full and satisfied with a very reasonable bill. Thanks Jennifer and crew!
Best dining experience. Cannot believe that this place has 78% and not atleast 90%! I came here for dinner last week with 2 friends and I can honestly say that it was one of the best dining experiences I have ever come across. The staff were extremely friendly and the food was unreal. Cold rolls are exceptionally fresh & beautifully presented, followed by a delicious duck salad, chicken curry, water spinach and amazing chilli squid! Will definitely be returning here, 10/10!
Brilliant!. Great atmosphere, cheap, quick service, delicious meals, not your typical cheap Asian restaurant like many others on Gouger Street. Book cause it gets busy. Loved it!
Food was very flavour some and cetainly not lacking any flavour. The spring rolls were a little spicy for me although my partner liked them. The NNQ rice was amazing on the tastebuds. We finished off our meal with homemade lemonade which was refreshing. Service was great and very quick! Would go back.
Awesome. Great food and awesome service. Very friendly staff and great prices. Highly recommended.
We were so thoroughly impressed with our Little NNQ experience the food was amazing, loved all the dishes we tried so hearty. The waitresses were so lovely especially Jen who welcomed us in, arranged a table for us without a booking on a very busy Friday night & checked on us a number of times, def shout out to her! Not only was the food, drinks & staff great but so were the prices. Priced so reasonably well, affordable for any types of ppl... Keep rocking it... We'll definitely be back!!!
Great lunch menu!. Simple, delicious, friendly, good value. I had the combination vermicelli salad which was fresh but could do with a bit more sauce. Highly recommended.
Wonderful. Dined a couple of weeks ago and shared the sugar cane prawn roll your own cold rolls. Delicious and would have been plenty for me but my husband wanted more. Had slow cooked pork and egg which had amazing flavours and green veg in garlic sauce which was delicious. Friendly service and a great spot in the window.
Tasty!. Tasty pho and rolls! Will return!
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Looking outward. If you potter on down to Pennington or Rosewater or Ferryden Park and go to the Than Nu Y or the Nghi Ngan Quan or the Vietnam or one of the multitude of Vietnamese eateries there what you see, it seems to me, it the Vietnamese community cooking for the community. Good honest food cooked by people who know just what it tasted like back home for people who expect it to taste like it tasted back home.
Sure those of us who aren't a part of the community are welcome to go along and join in and thank God for it because now we know about Pho and Broken Rice and Sugar cane prawns and we've made our own cold rolls and it's great and we're come to love it.
But really, if we didn't go along to the Than Nu Y or the Nghi Ngan Quan it'd be more our loss than theirs because they seem to have such a loyal following amongst the Vietnamese community that they'd still be making a dollar and doing gangbusters business without us.
This is especially noticeable at somewhere like the Vietral at Virginia, where Vietnamese cooks are cooking serious Vietnamese food for Vietnamese market gardeners who come in for lunch and probably couldn't give a damn about how it's "plated up" or new tastes or the cutting edge - they want hearty food that tastes like what they like and at a decent price.
And aren't we richer for it?
But if the Big NNQ is the community cooking for itself, then the Little NNQ is something quite different.
For a start the place is run by the children of the people at the original. And it seems to me that if the original is the community's own restaurant then Liitle NNQ is the next generation of the community spreading their wings and bringing the community's food into the wider community.
It's still rich and authentic and delicious but has a level of sophistication and even elegance than you probably don't associate with those Pennington gems. It's like its heart is in Ridley Grove and its head is in Hutt Street.
Take the Pho for instance. Have it out at Grand Junction Road and you can get beef, offal, tendons, meatballs and just about anything else you like, with rice noodles, a forest of herbs and mix your own chilli sauce and all sorts of goodies. It usually comes in a bowl the size of a bucket and it's a great experience.
At Little NNQ it comes as a single entree sized bowl with rare beef and a couple of meatballs. But it still tastes delicious and it tastes like pho - just pho in western clothes I guess.
The menu is full of good things - delicious spring rolls wrapped in rice paper and deep fried; a duck and banana blossom salad that's fantastic; a beef salad that is better than any salad you've ever had; a slow cooked beef stew that like the beef stew you wished your Nanna made; a caramelised pork belly that's outstanding; a range of make your own cold rolls that are delicious; and the water spinach with garlic is a treat.
The setting is really cosy and comfortable, the service is impeccable and the whole experience is really memorable.
Is it the same experience as what you get at Ferryden Park? No, not at all and if you go along there and expect it to be the same then you'll be very confused and probably disappointed.
But go along and see what the kids can do. They're doing Vietnamese, but they're all grown up and doing it in their own grown up way.
Fantastic restaurant. Food is amazing, staff are very efficient & very knowlegable and the restaurant has a great ambience. I've been twice now and will definitely be back. Great to see a bit more diversity in Gouger!!
A warm inviting addition to Gouger Street. We are HUGE fans of LIttle NNQ's sister restaurant, Nghi Ngan Quan, and thought this couldn't be as good. But it is just as good but also completely different. Little NNQ is a sophiscated take on modern Vietnamese Food- my dishes were very reminiscent of the flavours of Hanoi. So yummy! Perhaps the best part of Little NNQ is its warm inviting ambiance and the fantasitc service. Our waiter knew the menu and was able to make recommendations. While we will still visit Nghi Ngan Quan we will also come back here again and again.
Great Food, BUT.... Great food. BUT I had to drink my water our of a threaded jar. WTF. Okay so hipster cafe's try and serve juices in jars, but (1) they don't use jars with threaded lids and (2) this is a Vietnamese restaurant - i.e. not hipster
I wonder if the wine comes in a jam jar?
Management, do yourself a favour and get rod of the tacky jars. Everything else is fine.
Was so happy when I found this little place. It's so refreshing to have a Asian resturant on gouger street that's fresh and modern with some nice service.
The food was amazing. Fantastic chicken curry ! Il be back very soon
Delicious food and fantastic service to match, not to mention a fantastic atmosphere! The wonton soup is to die for, as is the king prawns and wagu stew.. Will definitely be back for round 2
The food is amazing! Salt and pepper mushroom was to die for and the slow cooked pork belly with egg was delish. The homemade lemonade was so tasty, couldn't get enough. Great, friendly, service to boot. Will be going back for sure.
Fabulous!. The best beef noodle soup and wine list in the city! can't wait to try the rest of the menu!
Fab opening night at Little NNQ. Went to Little NNQ last Thursday for their first night after being a regular at their original restaurant at Ferryden Park - Nghi Ngan Quan. Beautiful interior and absolutely excellent food. Definately give this a try and order the water spinach with garlic, the beef salad, chargrilled prawns and Vietnamese chicken curry. Some of the best Asian flavours my group of people had ever eaten - and we hardly ever eat at home! Heading back as soon as I can manage it. :-)
Adventures In Winterland
+4
Meeting up with friends for a Gouger St dinner in Adelaide, I picked the new kid on the block – Little NNQ, the outpost of Nghi Ngan Quan. The menu is full of exciting-sounding things: DIY cold rolls, curries, and soups. I ordered the entree sized pho as a starter, which was more like a small main when it came out, full of rare beef, beef balls, onion and noodles. The broth was fabulous and not overly salty, and I was well on my way to full after drinking every last drop. I had the grilled scallops with ginger as...
Had a delicious sour fish soup. The service was attentive even though we were sitting outside, but not overbearing. I would love to see more vegetarian options on the menu.
We ordered Pho HotPot and that was the best decision. We just loved that! Other dishes were nice too. We came 2 3 times and haven’t been disappointed so far. You must try.
Moist pork belly. Stir fry noodles is very Asian. Pho is tasty.
We had a wonderful time. Food was delicious and a wonderful service.
Food is nice big portions.
However, the service and hospitality can be better.
Great value for money dishes! Food was very fresh and tasty. Service was fast and friendly! Well done NNQ you've done it again!
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