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| - We heard about this new restaurant through a flyer in our mailbox. There aren't a whole lot of vietnamese restaurants in the thornhill area so we though we would check this place out, as it has a 10% grand opening discount. Woot.
Entering this plaza (the one with the shoppers drug mart and td canada trust bank) is tricky / a nightmare if you are coming from steeles going westbound. There's always a huge ass line up to turn left at the light, and people get pissed if you block the left turn lane to enter the plaza (there is no middle turning lane available). And the parking lot is not very big, but doesn't take too long to find a spot.
So anyway we got here for dinner, and there was no one else here except for us, later on there were two guests who dined in. The interior was nice, clean, tidy. There were some interesting paintings on the wall. There was one that was quite the conversation starter...can't remember if it was two ladies changing into their clothes or whether they were bathing themselves lol.
Pro tip: do not try to order your meal/ converse with the server in Vietnamese. No one in the restaurant will understand you as all servers seem to be Chinese and do not understand Vietnamese.
This made for an extremely awkward experience and a bit of a suspicion as to whether our food was going to be good... Though, I have been to plenty of Vietnamese restaurants that were bad and made by Vietnamese people so who's to say it has to be a Vietnamese chef to make good Vietnamese food, lol. But it was just shocking as I have never been to a Vietnamese restaurant in the GTA where the servers couldn't understand Vietnamese. Anyway, shouldn't be a problem for most people though as it seems like this restaurant is more catered to a western demographic. It was only when we ended our meal and had a look at the outdoor restaurant banner and noticed the "Vietnamese and Chinese Cuisine" header under the restaurant name, which is fine and makes sense.
Onto my meal. It was alright. The soup was good, on the lighter side. But what I did not appreciate was that my rice noodles were clumped up/stuck together in the soup until I tried to separate them with my chopsticks. For the price I think it was good value and tasted nice.
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