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| - My friend had a craving for something other than fancy and overpriced celebrity fine dining restaurants on the strip, so she yelp'd this place and I just followed along. Located in a strip mall off the main road in Chinatown, this place is a bit hidden at the corner of the second floor, but the huge colorful signs will steer you right. I had heard that this place had some good reviews for their sandwiches and Pho...so was looking forward to a good down to earth simple lunch.
It's pretty much a typical basic and casual Vietnamese restaurant....nothing fancy looking....sit down, wait for the server to come over and take your order, and you just wait for the food to come out. Or, there's a counter for takeaways....mostly the Banh Mi sandwiches, but most people we saw here were dine ins.
We wanted to try both the Banh Mi and soup noodles so went ahead and ordered the Hu Tieu Ga (flat rice noodle in chicken broth), the House Special Banh Mi, the BBQ Chicken Banh Mi, and the Banh Cuon Nhan Thit (Pork mushroom flour roll).....which I had never tried before. We had actually intended to order the regular pho noodles instead of the flat rice noodles, but it was all good....enjoyed the chicken soup very much....nice and comforting flavor to it....could've given a bit more chicken meat though. The beansprouts were fresh.....then we noticed that they forgot to give us any fresh basil leaves. There being just the two servers/cashier serving the whole busy restaurant, we could tell they were well understaffed and running around like crazy trying to attend to all the other tables......it took us a good 5-10 minutes to get their attention to let them know we needed basil leaves...they finally did.
The Banh Mi sandwiches...tasted good....the pickled vegetables were quite sweet...however, I was rather disappointed with the French roll bread. Every Banh Mi I have ever had in my life had a nice light crisp to the crust, but for some strange reason this one was very flat. The BBQ chicken in my Banh Mi was quite yummy though. My friend enjoyed her House Special Banh Mi with what looked like a couple of different types of sliced luncheon meat and the same pickled vegetables.
The Pork Mushroom Flour Roll was quite interesting.....actually quite yummy, but I don't usually eat a lot of pork so likely would not have ordered it for myself. My friend said it was good.
As previously mentioned, they're very understaffed here and so service is very very slow....despite the two servers running around like chickens with their heads chopped off. When they did get around to attending to us they were very nice and friendly.....and I think it would be unfair to be too harsh on them for this.....they were trying. Plus, I noticed a sign on the cash register advertising for help.....likely even more understaffed in the kitchen as it took our noodles about half an hour to get out to us, and the flour rolls even longer than that......I think they simply forgot about our flour rolls till my friend asked about it.
Yea, I guess if you're not in a hurry to get anywhere and have a craving for decent Vietnamese fast food, then this is definitely an ok place to come get your fill. Although this is the slowest fast food I'd ever experienced. Yea, I would come back, only if my friends wanted to come here....but I would likely just order the soup noodles.
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