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Banh Cuon Thanh Truc
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Banh Cuon Thanh Truc is the Sixth Stop for our November Crawl.
Banh Cuon Thanh Truc did sound promising from the Yelp review, the decor here is a lot more chic and modern than what I would have expected.
Since this stop is really a snack between meals, so we decided to order some appetizers instead of anything substantial.
With Banh Cuon in the name of this location or course we need to order one of those!
Curiously, we ended up with 2 breakfast dish?
- Banh Cuon Cha Lua Cha Muc Banh Cong ($8)
Banh Cuon is a steamed rice roll stuffed with pork, which is a light dish, and is generally eaten for breakfast everywhere in Vietnam. I found the rice roll here on the greasy side and just didn't wow me!
- Banh Xeo ($8)
Vietnamese crêpe-type pancakes is made out of rice flour and pan-fried and stuffed with slivers of fatty pork, shrimp, and bean sprouts. Served wrapped with lettuce leaves and stuffed with mint and other herbs, and dipped in fish sauce.
Talking about humongous portion!! Both dishes though was so so, definitely not the best one I ever ate. Because of health risk involved in eating raw bean sprout, all of them were cooked before they were served to us.
As for my Yelp Friend, I think the most memorable moment at Thanh Truc was not the food or any cute waitress. The clarity of the Blu-ray movie we were watching over our breakfast food where the talk of the evening... and me I just could not get over the nasty smell from the washroom in the basement!
NEXT!
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