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The location itself is small and not in the most appealing location, but don't let that fool you. The front lot is super small, but there's more parking in the back. The seating is really tight, but I never feel cramped. The interior is simple and square, but spruced up with stitched maps of Vietnam on the tables and bamboo shoots around the perimeter.
The service here is incredible. It's always packed, but the staff make sure to recognize and greet you as soon as you enter. There's never that many employees it seems, but they are buzzing like bees around to make sure everything is perfect. The thing that blows my mind is that my glass of ice water is never empty. As soon as I take a sip, it seems someone is there to replenish. YES!
Appetizer-wise, make sure you try the TEMPLE ROLLS. These little guys are made in heaven. They are a simple clear rice paper roll filled with super crispy tofu, lettuce, mint, and bean sprouts. What makes them special is the PEANUT SAUCE. Dear lord I could consume buckets of this nectar.
The menu is huge and has almost any Vietnamese dish you can think of and it's SUPER VEGETARIAN FRIENDLY. There's so much I wanna try but I usually get one of these 4 dishes:
Bean Curd with Lemongrass (#69): big chunks of super crispy tofu, covered in lemon grass. On top of a bed of steamed vermicelli, green leaf lettuce, bean sprouts, mint, and cucumber. This all comes with a ramekin of light sweet and sour sauce to pour over top of everything.
Tofu with Garlic Sauce (#70): This is almost just like the bowl above, but the tofu is stir-fried instead, and instead of lemongrass and sweet and sour, there's a garlic sauce.
House Special Hot Pot: LOVE. This is definitely the most filling of my favorites. The top layer is fried tofu, broccoli, cauliflour, carrots, celery, and onion. Underneath is a rice cooked with a tomato sauce... it's thick and sticky and hearty and the perfect compliment to the veggies.
Pineapple Fried Rice: This dish is pretty simple. It's a basic fried rice with tofu, pineapple, onion, egg, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, and celery. The kicker is that it's served in an actually pineapple half/bowl.... so cool!
Your check comes with a couple packaged candies (which I do NOT like) and a couple peanut butter cookie biscuits. These little peanut bundles are DELISH, do not pass them up. When I was here last week, the owner gave my boyfriend and I a whole jar of them as a new years gift. Surely, they weren't giving them out to everyone where they? Either way, this was so so kind and generous... I LOVE YOU LANG VAN.
Edit/Update: I was recently introduced to the Vietnamese Iced Coffee at Lang Van. Delicious! They bring it a tall skinny glass out which has chilled sweet condensed milk at the bottom. At the top is a small device like a mini Vietnamese French Press. The super strong coffee drips down into the chilled milk. When finished, you stir it up and pour over your second tall glass of ice.
I'm coming here more often for lunch to get my caffeine fix. Yet another reason I love you, LV.
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