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| - WTF, ARE YOU SERIOUS??? This place is total crap~! I ate here a couple of weeks ago with some friends who live nearby. It was a freezing, lazy kind of day so I thought we ought to have something soupy with other options as there were a few of us. While you can't please everyone, at least try, right?? Another friend recommended this place, saying she'd eaten at their other location and told me what to get but the item was not to be found on the menu at this location, but there was a sign in their window touting "authentic" cuisine so we all just ordered whatever seemed appetizing at the time.
We arrived at about 5pm to an empty restaurant decorated like a Zen spa with white-linen tables complete with wine glasses (BYOW if you wish): Buddha statues, incense burning, possibly even a small fountain somewhere, I don't recall. The sign in their window said they were closed but that wasn't the case. It was a blistery-cold day so we figured we'd be the only ones dining but then slowly a party of eight Asians came parading through with balloons and a cake. I figured how bad could it be, right? I WAS WRONG! I should have known when I saw bowls of pho for $10 and vermicelli for $12!
As much as I wanted soup, there was no way I was going to pay for pho at $10, so I went for some dish that I thought was going to be chicken with bamboo on rice in hot pot ($14). I know, it sounded like something I could get in Chinatown but nothing else really appealed to me that didn't sound like a complete rip-off! My friends ordered pad thai (don't ask; $13), another got the four-course meal with four skewers of different meats (one chicken, one beef, shrimp, and prob pork) for $25, and I can't remember what the other got but just as well as I didn't try theirs.
My dish was AWFUL. There was ZERO flavour in it and no sauce in the toppings whatsoever so it was this dry pile of a few shreds of tasteless chicken (old, brown meat) and bamboo on top of rice that crusts from the hot pot. There was no appropriate sauce to go with this thing so I just ate what I could. My friend loved her pad thai which came with a fried spring roll and fish sauce, but she's also never had Viet food (not that pad thai is a Viet dish) so I guess the exotic factor had her swooning. I tried some and the noodles were overcooked and the only flavour I could detect was soy sauce! I didn't say anything to set her straight because really, if she's happy with it, who was I to tell her otherwise? Even still, what was up with the odd combination of the soy sauce pad thai with the spring roll/fish sauce?? Our other friend's meal came with a choice of spring roll or bowl of soup, which was actually a mini bowl of pho, the four-skewers on rice plate, and some warm jelly dessert with coconut milk that I can't recall much more of, and the tea/coffee option which never arrived. The other guy had something or other that was straight out of a Chinese menu. Even the sauces on their table were the kind you'd find in a Chinese resto: hot sauce (not sriracha) and soy sauce.
Honestly, the meal was a total rip-off, coming out to ~$85 with tax, which is totally unheard of for four people in a Viet resto who aren't ordering things like seafood, or a whole roasted animal. Plus there was nothing "authentic" about this place. I don't know if this restaurant means to cater to non-Asians or Viet-food-virgins with its décor and white tablecloths and their sign about "authenticity" but even still, I thought since it's located in Brossard where there are tons of ethnics, that it would be more ...real?
I have noticed a difference in Viet food in MTL vs Toronto and I have to say that I like TO's better but that's not reason to go stinking so badly! Thankfully we brought our own wine and didn't waste anymore money at this place, cos it was just AWFUL. The only plus was the service--our server wasn't overly friendly but still nice and attentive.
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