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| - Came here on a Sunday night to an empty house for their all you can eat and I guess I took one for the AYCE team. Unlimited Vietnamese sounds great but when they remove 75% of the protein from what should exist in a certain dish, all you have is leafy vegetables, rice and rice based noodles.
The run down:
Fresh spring rolls: The highlight of the meal but nothing extra special, I think I ate 4 orders as each one actually had a full sized shrimp...and everything else on the menu was a bit of a let down.
Potstickers: They weren't potstickers but those cheap Sam's Club quality frozen and fried
wontons...nothing like the photo on their menu...I guess they ran out.
Saigon Fried Rice: AVOID, AVOID, AVOID. Menu says sausage, shrimp and chicken. A couple of pieces of tiny cubed sausage among egg mixed with a huge heap of fried rice and some diced carrots and cilantro. Super huge portion...super disappointing as it was completely void of shrimp AND chicken. The sign says anything left over is charged a la carte price, so when they heard we had ordered it, the owners must have been high-fiving in the kitchen that they could fill us with rice for $30.
Rice Flour Cake with Shrimp: So-so...a bit oily, it came recommended by the elder lady owner. My pic looks better than it was.
Egg Roll: Was a very long, thin spring roll, not that great...at all. My date thought it was old.
Vermicilli beef spicy soup: Had this twice as it was a soup on par with what you'd expect flavor wise with a good broth except for the fact that the meat was embarrassingly scarce. It also didn't come with any sides to spice it up to your liking (Jalapeno, lime, etc...).
Chicken wings: Have had better at a lunch time Chinese buffet.
Vietnamese pancake: Huge pancake dripping oil with oily drenched bean sprouts and only 2 pieces of shrimp in the whole thing. A joke.
Saigon Fried Noodle: They ran out
Crab rice noodles: They ran out
Fruit and Cake: They ran out
Other Gripes:
-They claim to have 2 menus but most of menu #2 is just menu #1 written out in Vietnamese.
-They actually brought out another plate of fried rice without asking after we forced ourselves to down the first...No way, back to the cocina w/ that!
-Things weren't timed too well between courses, lots of unexpected down time.
-If you are only going to have 8-9 items for all you can eat...don't be out of 3 of them!
How much is shrimp these days? I think I saw them for $3.99 a pound at La Bonita for medium sized last week which is the size they use...would an extra .20 worth of shrimp per dish beat the house if your two customers are already spending over $30 with tax and tip?
Overall I won't return. The options and execution left a lot to be desired. With them being so incredibly tight with the more expensive ingredients I bet they could have turned a profit charging $5 a head.
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