Amazing place for vietnamese food. Very authentic! The owners are amazing. Super friendly! They have many dishes that no other vietnamese restaurants make! It's a must try and go again!
I love coming to this restaurant because they prepare authentic Vietnamese cuisine and the price point is extremely affordable!!!
Yes. We,re Eating Again.
+4
We arrived on Saturday on Victoria Drive at 34th, not too long after opening (we're calling it brunch) and were seated right away. By the time we left, there were still a few tables available but they were getting busy. We started with Banh bot loc la chuoi a steamed tapioca dumpling with shrimp and pork, served with fish sauce (btw, I apologize for all the missing punctuation). This is the same dumpling that we had at Do Chay about a week ago (except for the pork and shrimp thing). These were easily on par with the others with a delightful texture and a salty meaty filling offsetting the subtlety of the tapioca. Next, we had Bahn beo nhan uot. These were rice cakes, evidently steamed on their plates and then topped with pork and a shrimp puree and served with fish sauce. This is the most unique thing that we have sampled in a long time! It was texturally pleasant with the rice cake being soft but firm enough to provide a platform for the topping. Wonderful! Try this! Next up was Cao Lau, a yellow rice noodle (yellow thanks to Tumeric) with sauteed pork and garlic sauce. The pork was garlicky and tender and between the noodles and peanuts, we were again impressed. Like Pho (but not from southern Vietnam like pho) this dish came with some adders including shredded banana blossoms (which Marie often uses in Filipino cooking unbeknownst to me). Finally came Com Bo Kho, a chunky beef stew that I had always attributed to French colonialism and which I assume involved central Vietnam just like the south (shame on me for this gap in my history knowledge). Our server assured me that it was authentic to the central Vietnamese aspect of the menu. I can only say that it was excellent like everything else that we enjoyed here! Not vegetarian-friendly at all unless you are plain rice friendly (just being honest). The folks here are lovely and the service is attentive. You need to put HAC on your bucket list (unless you are vegetarian, as mentioned).
It was our First time here and you could tell it was a hot spot. They are very efficient as they cleaned up fast but also had you seated just as fast. I normally look for great bun bho hue and this was the place. It was one of the common dishes ordered next to their pho. Their bun bho hue had enough spiceyness, noodles and meat. Would definitely come here again! I would only take one point away for our table being awkwardly placed but then again food was great and we were seated promptly- how can you complain!
good service
good authentic unique vietnamese food
parking is can be a hassle
small cozy place
average price
if i had to choose 1 dish: cao lau
would i go back? yes
What a fantastic place for Vietnamese food! If you are expecting stellar service, you will be disappointed. It is a place to go for it's great food - eat and go; very much like a lot of hole-in-the-wall places! Don't put too much stock on service - it is the food that you are there for. The quality of the food and the speed in which you get your order is great. It is a busy place on Saturday lunch time. Be prepared to wait. Most customers eat and do not linger around. Your patience will be rewarded with good quality Vietnamese food. Highly recommend trying this place out. #4 steamed dumplings are so tasty. Great way to whet your appetite before you get your bowl of noodles and food. Try this place out and you will not be disappointed with the food.
My foodie friends and I went for a food crawl last Saturday in the Kensington area. We went 6 different restaurants to try some of their signature dishes. Starting from today, I will blog about one restaurant per day for the next 5 days. So here we go!. The first stop is Hoi An Cafe, the only one Viet restaurant that serve authentic Central Vietnamese food in Vancouver. We ordered some of the signature dishes to share, which includes their infamous Mì Quảng, an authentic Vietnamese turmeric noodle dish, Cafe Sữa (Vietnamese Ice Coffee), and much more!
My favourite dish were the tapioca dumplings (#4). They were nice and chewy but had a really powerful small kick to it from the birds eye chillies! It paired so well with the fish sauce hey had for dipping. delicious. The broth in the pho was super flavourful and I thought the bowl had just the right amount of noodles and meat in them. Service was super friendly despite me coming in 30 minutes before closing. Would definitely recommend this small, friendly, clean neighbourhood joint!
You know what I just realized? Now that I live in Kits, I rarely venture out of the Westside. (This is more or less due to the fact that Jeremy has a preference for staying in Kits, downtown, and Gastown.) Am I becoming a (gasp) Westside snob? JK JK. Burnaby will always have my heart
Overall good restaurant. Tasty dishes and quick service. Good prices too ($8.95 for a large pho, $11 for a lemongrass chicken on rice w/ egg). Portions are pretty standard for your Vietnamese restaurant, but the pho's broth is rich and tasty and not too salty.
The lemongrass chicken is also very tasty! It is one of the more succulent lemon grass chickens I've had. One downside of this restaurant is the parking as they don't have a dedicated lot so you have to park in the street or the side street. Also there are no bahn mi and spring rolls. But the food makes up for it.
Really good authentic vietnamese cuisine. Brought my friend who just got back from Vietnam and was craving the food, he approved!
RECOMMENDATIONS:
- Banh Bot Loc Tan ; wasn't sure how I would feel about a tapioca wrapping, but it was a flavourful starter.
- Cao Lau Dac Biet ; FLAVORFUL AF. The noodles had a great texture to them, and I loved the combination of peanut crunch, shrimp and banana blossom.
- Cafe Sua ; I'm personally not a huge fan of condensed milk but everyone I've spoken to absolutely loves the vietnamese coffee here! So if you're a fan, I'd say definitely order it.
This Vietnamese restaurant is highly rated, so we came here and tried their Vietnamese food. There is street parking near the restaurant. No private parking lot.
The restaurant was quite full when we got there but we were lucky to get a table right away. The service was okay. Once we had ordered the food, it came quickly. The restaurant was very efficient. We ordered beef combination, rare beef and tendon and etc. with thin rice noodle in soup. The beef was tendered. But the tendon was quite chewy and hard and it was not fully cooked yet. All of us ordered thin rice noodle in soup with small and large sizes. The small ones were quite small though. The broth/soup was good but it had a very strong flavour of star anise. Some people might not like it though.
Overall, the service, quality of food and pricing are acceptable and on average.
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