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| - Came here for lunch with a friend after hearing about this All-You-Can-Eat deal going on Saturday's and Sundays. Availability is between 10:00A - 0300P at $12.99 and 0300P - 1000P at $14.99
Originally prior to coming, we had saw the menu for the AYCE that includes
Menu #1 - Sai Gon Pho, Vermicelli Beef Spicy Soup, Egg Roll (Cha Gio), Potstickers, Chicken Wings, Saigon Fried Rice, Spring Roll, Saigon Fried Noodle, and Dessert: Fruit & Cake
Menu #2 - Bun Bo Hue, Beef Rice Noodle, Vietnamese Pancake (Banh Xeo), Saigon Fried Rice, Egg Roll (Cha Gio), Chicken Wings, Rice Flour Cake w/ Shrimp, Crab Rice Noodle, Saigon Fried Noodle, and Dessert: Fruit
Originally we were going to come here with another friend but he didn't wake up until we already started eating. Despite the spread of news by FB and what not, it doesn't seem like many people knew about this deal or had been doing this deal when we did.
Upon arrival, it took a minute or two till we were discovered and sat at a table on the side. The restaurant seemed to be "Cramped" due to the décor of many wooden fences to "separate" tables and hanging camping lights and the awnings on the side walls, in attempt to create an "outdoor? Vietnam? feeling". Lol. Horribly fail imo. The lady was nice with the limited but fairly decent English. She had told us we were not limited to a certain menu, and can order from both AND we were allowed to "share" orders AND recommended to order multiples of the "appetizers" due to length of time needed to cook each item.
We had ordered the Saigon Pho, Bun Bo Hue, 2 orders of potstickers, 3 orders of spring rolls, 3 orders of egg rolls, 1 Vietnamese pancake.
Bun Bo Hue had arrived before the Saigon Pho. Then came rolling in the potstickers with egg rolls, spring rolls, then last but not least, the Vietnamese pancake.
We had been told the noodle soups are generally smaller than the normal order. When it had arrived, yep they were smaller than the "normal" (from other restaurants). Bun Bo Hue included slices of meat (not raw/plain beef but similar to the ones that Vietnamese cuisine has in a roll. and a spear of similar meat but pork I believe. Doesn't bun bo hue have tomatoes and pig feet? Soup flavor was decent.
Spring rolls were small. Yeah it had shrimp but lacked some ingredients like pork slices, and some other herbs. The peanut sauce that came with it tasted a bit weird. Not like a "went bad" weird but like... iunoe. Bit different from the usual peanut butter hoisin sauce combination I usually get. Adding sriracha made it weirder. o_O ?
Egg rolls were long but about 1/2 the size of a normal egg roll. Potstickers were fried and seemed to have the same filing as an egg roll.
The Vietnamese pancake (banh xeo) was the size of a large plate. Yeah that's the "normal" ish size of one (though still smaller and thin) but definitely lacked in ingredients. The only things we had found inside the egg "wrap" was bean sprouts, and like 2-3 shrimp.
The lettuce that came with both the egg rolls and banh xeo was varying in size. So varying that it seemed some were from the outer layers, and some were from the very inner most layers. Not sure if this is something to be nit-picked about but hey... at least gimme a size that can fit the stuff im supposed to eat it with LOL
After we finished our food, the same lady came to recommend more things to order. Some on the menu (chicken wings, etc) and some not on the AYCE menu (bbq pork spring roll). We were quite full so opt'ed for dessert. Gave us 2 slices of watermelon per person. I mean, the watermelon was sweet, and she was seen eating it after she gave it to us too xD
Overall, I guess its good to try once. Maybe. I like viet foods but this is no where near the best ive had. Quite far from it. I had heard from my friend this place had changed owners a few times in the past year as well. For $13, its not a bad try if you can eat a decent amount.
This place used to be good because I used to call in to pre-order 2-3 lbs of bbq pork for making bun thit nuong at home. Not sure if they still do that but considering my experience this time around, maybe I shouldn't try.
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