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  • Nice..um...'decor'. Totally feels like a whole in the wall kind of establishment...wait a second...IT IS A WHOLE IN THE WALL KIND OF ESTABLISHMENT!! Yeah nothing too fancy, not a lot of seating so order to go or decide who your best friends are and leave the other suckers at home. Their Cash Only sign LIES!!! at the end of our little meal my friend and i freaked out cause none of us had cash that day but they took debit card so that sign LIES!!! Food was interesting I has the Bamboo Duck soup and it tasted almost close to real bamboo duck soup cept it lacked the body that you get from boiling duck bones and rehydrated bamboo shoots. Kind of ironic how the direct translation in Vietnamese for going vegetarian is 'eating bland' where as going back to meat is 'eating salty' The bamboo duck coup was exactly that bland. My personal taste to everything must be either heavily seasoned or a bit on the high blood pressure inducing side and to me this soup was about five shades on the bland side. Now when i say bland i dont mean it lacks flavor it had a bit of flavor from bamboo but lacked the salty and savory punch you only get some fish sauce. Oh and they dont use fish sauce here so dont expect none... The bamboo shoots that were in the soup were obviously canned and too little. The mock-duck "meat" had that taste of duck but it didnt last too long, texture was okay and there was also way too little of it. There was preserved pickled mustard but again so little that it was more of a tease then a garnish or an addition to the dish. Personally i wouldnt order this again and most likely wouldnt order any of the soups again. Why? Well for one i'm Viet and i know what these dishes are suppose to taste like to the point where i can try to recreate something with about 75% accuracy if i try it at home. Two in most Viet broths you need animal bones to get flavor, body, and aroma to soups these kinds of ingredients this place obviously cant use. and Three i'm not a vegetarian nor am i trying to be vegetarian i'm just curious to see how skillful this place is in mimicking tofu or mushrooms to resemble meat. Lastly Five, the backbone to most Vietnamese dishes is FISH SAUCE, we'll power our scooters with it and feed our babies with it if we could. This place doesnt use any and could give me an alternative so regardless of how close they can get something to taste like meat it's always going to be lacking that fish sauce. The tofu nuggets were complete different. pretty much sliced up tofu served in a sauce that's suppose to mimic a fish sauce caramalization reduction. It had the look and the color but wasnt thick or had that flavor but was good regardless. The tofu was also quite interesting. Between the two commercially known types of tofu (talkin bout silken and firm) this was a type i've never tried before, it was firm yet tender, and had a little play to it. It was close to meat kind of. Sort of like vietnamese fish paste that's been fried (oh gods how i miss fish paste that isnt pre cooked or formed into the shape of a tube...) Anyway If i'm in the general area i'll come back and give something else a try but it's very not likely i'm going to go out of my way to eat here. There's plenty of alternatives for omnivores out there.
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