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We were seated quickly in a booth in the corner. The decor is a little incongruous from a typical Vietnamese restaurant but it is pleasant enough. A guy came back quickly to take our order which was a 40 - vermicelli with chicken, prawns & beef, a 41 - vermicelli with lemongrass chicken and some tea right away. Everything went south from there.
About 5 minutes later a lady came by and dropped off some spring rolls and quickly left. We were a little uncertain if they were a complimentary thing but since we had no napkins, utensils, sauces etc. we thought we would wait to find out. We flagged someone down and it turns out that they didn't belong to us so they were quickly removed. We requested from that server our tea as well.
Shortly after our dishes were delivered and we finally got our tea. We had to ask for napkins and either chopsticks or a fork to eat the food with as the food delivery person was scampering away.
I order lemongrass chicken vermicelli every time I go to a Vietnamese restaurant, which is fairly often, and this order looked and tasted very different, and not in a good way. It tasted exactly like Chinese chicken chow mein, with about the same amount of grease. My husband's bowl more closely resembled what I have come to expect the dish to look like but his vermicelli was clumped in the bottom and a few pieces of his chicken were filled with gristle.
No one had come to our table to check on us from the time the food was delivered, and after we had finished eating what we could we sat for quite some time before we just got up and went directly to the cash register to pay. This is the standard operating procedure for more casual Vietnamese restaurants but this place appears a lot more formal so we weren't sure, but we didn't want to sit in the booth ignored any longer.
There is a 100% chance that we will not be returning. The food is sub-par and despite a whole ton of wait staff, the service is not great either. There are far too many other options in the city that are better.
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