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| - I had dinner here with my parents recently. The food was flavourful, but really oily/greasy.
We started off with spring rolls ($5.75) and all had the vermicelli. I had the spring roll and beef vermicelli $8.75, my mom had the spring roll, shrimp on a sugar cane and beef vermicelli $9.95 and my dad had the meat balls, shrimp on a sugar cane and beef vermicelli $9.95. Then my mom and I shared the Che Ba Mau (3 bean dessert) $4.25.
The spring rolls come 2 per order, but they are fairly large. However, I think still expensive for the price. They were really oily/greasy. They were also mostly taro, vermicelli, carrots and black cloud fungus; there was very little meat. They were crispy though, and while I think the wrapper was rice paper, since it was somewhat blistery, it actually tasted like a cross between rice paper and the usual wheat-based wrapper.
The vermicelli used in the vermicelli dishes are the big round vermicelli - like the diameter of spaghetti. It's not the smaller vermicelli - like the diameter of spaghetini (which I prefer). The bottom of the bowl is filled with bean sprouts. You also get some shredded lettuce and matchstick cucumbers, but not nearly as much as I would like.
The beef was not grilled, but rather stir-fried with onions. It was tasty, but oh so oily/greasy. The shrimp paste on a sugar cane tasted like mostly flour filler, there did not seem to be that much shrimp. My mom felt that the meatballs were bland. Both meatballs and shrimp paste were also oily/greasy.
Dessert was pretty good though. The Che Ba Mau had black-eyed peas, mung bean paste, red beans, green gelatin strips, crushed ice and coconut cream. The beans/peas were perfectly cooked - not too mushy, but not too hard. The coconut cream was rich. The dessert was the right amount of sweetness. The ice could have been crushed a little bit more, but that's a minor issue.
Our server was very pleasant and friendly. It was super busy, so she didn't really check up on us, but she came when we called for her.
Decor is modern. They didn't do such a great job cleaning the table before we sat down though. There was still some food on the table and the benches (we had a booth). I had to wipe it down with Kleenex from my purse.
The restaurant is in a strip mall, and there's lots of parking.
Overall, food was tasty but too oily/greasy for me to want to return.
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