There’s grab for transportation and there’s grab for food! It’s a life saver
especially when you arrive late or at night at the hotel and you don’t know the area you
are staying in. Once you login on the app, you can view various restaurant (not just
fast food, if you want fried rice or iced coffee, you have those option) normally the
delivery fee are really low (0.20$-1.00$ CAD depending on the country and the distance).
The application will show you when the driver arrives at the restaurant, when he leaves
and you can also follow him on the map in real time. The app also has a chat section.
Most of the time the grab driver will text you to confirm your order or ask you
question. If they text you in other language, just use google translate (it work well
enough for small sentences). Sometime the drive will also call you, answer in english if
they don’t understand they will hang up and text you. Most of the time you cannot pay
directly from the application (the restaurants don’t use credit card…) so you have to
pay with cash to the driver. The application gives you the exact amount with the
delivery fee, so there are no chances of getting scammed.
Side story: We use Grab food a lot in area that we feel like they were increasing the
price for tourist. They cannot do that on the application so you get the real price
and not the overly inflated price… (In one place the jack up the price so much in
restaurant that it was even hight than the price in canadien restaurant, you laugh
and left)