Sadly, Minh-Anh continues to disappoint.
This is my third dining experience at Minh-Anh: 1 lunch and 2 dinners.
At all three dining experiences the overall quality of the food was fair at best and definitely not
fresh for most of the ingredients.
The Rice Noodles with Chicken Pho was too sweet, the lettuce looked and tasted wilted, and the chicken was oddly processed. Not even sure where they get their chicken - it was cut as if it was Spam and did not even taste like fresh chicken cut/pulled from the bone!
The Shrimp Spring Roll was ok, but I have had way better. And the peanut sauce had a gooey/sticky texture - not appealing visually or tastewise.
And what Vietnamese restaurant doesn't offer Bahn Mi sandwiches!!! Minh-Anh does not and that makes this restaurant in my book far from an authentic Vietnamese cuisine focused restaurant.
Having lived in San Francisco for many years, I have enjoyed the delightful and tasteful cuisine of authentic Vietnamese restaurants. Luckily, Cleveland does have two great authentic Vietnamese restaurants: Pho Thang Cafe on Superior in downtown Cleveland is amazing with wonderful Bahn Mi sandwiches and Pho soups, and the smaller Pho Ha Nam in the Asia Town Center has the best Summer Rolls and peanut sauce in Cleveland. At a higher price point, Bac in Tremont is also ok, but one has to be careful when ordering from their menu to avoid too much Americanization.
For real authentic Vietnamese cooking like you would find at the famed Slanted Door and other smaller Vietnamese restaurants in gourmet foodie capital of America San Francisco, please try Pho Thang Cafe and Pho Ha Nam - and avoid Ming-Anh and even overrated Superior Pho. You won't be disappointed with Pho Thang Cafe and/or Pho Ha Nam!