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Quan Hop Restaurant
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good for:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- None
57 reviews for Quan Hop Restaurant
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Service: 2.5/5
Food: 3/5
Wait: 2/5
Price: $
Presentation of food: 4/5
Presentation of restaurant: 4/5
Overall: 3/5
Had their rice plate pork chop with seafood cake. Meat was crackinnnn.
This reatuarant is the ugly step sister of Quan Hy (same owner). Same type of decor, ok service, but the over priced food was mediocre at best. Sure it's clean and the employees are nice, but I want good food! The banh beo is not as good as Quan Hy and the bun bo hue was ehhhh at best.
TRUS STORY: This reataurant use to be a pho joint. A contruction worker was working on the roof and met his DEATH by falling through the hole on the roof into a large boiling vat of pho. I wonder if they still served the soup to the customers?
Came here on a recommendation from my brother and was craving some bun cha hanoi. So the wife and I went on a Monday for dinner. There were three other tables including us. That should have tipped me off.
First problem was the person showed us to our table and then just disappeared for a while. We sat there for about ten minutes, with no one in sight.
Second problem was the over priced menu eWe left there more disappointed than feeling satisfied.
Third, we got our food and no water. With no one in sight to even ask for a glass of water, we ate our meal parched. Even with no one else in the entire place we had no service.
Then the food was ordinary at best. The clam salad was a little sweet and what we came here for "bun cha hanoi" was not what we had in Vietnam. The pork patty had a strange flavor in it. Must have been their rendition of it. The fish sauce that it's supposed to be soaked in was almost non existent. We had to dig to the bottom to get to any. The plate of noodles and vegetables was also pitiful. Come on it's vegetables and rice noodles.
After this we will never be coming back.
Quan Hop is like a 2nd home to me! If you want clean Vietnamese food that tastes fresh and is not all MSG'd out, stop by Quan Hop.
For Bolsa, the price may be a few dollars more, but the food definitely tastes way better. And, be realistic about their menu. I mean, there's tough competition in Bolsa, where certain restaurants are known for their spring rolls (Ahem, BRODARD!!!), while others specialize in Chicken Rice (Vy Da).
If you're craving the following, here is where it's good at:
Pho w/ Fillet Mignon (Quan Hop)
Banh Beo (Quan Hop)
Bun Bo Hue (Quan Hop)
Bun Thit Nuong aka BBQ Pork Vermicelli (Quan Hop)
Com Hen aka Clams with Rice (Quan Hop)
Nem Nuong Spring Rolls (Brodard)
Chicken Rice (Vy Da)
Bo Kho aka Beef Stew Soup w/Bread (Le Croissant Dore)
Btw...it gets busy during lunch hours, especially on the weekend. Good parking and easy to find.
My friend took me here last week. Apparently this place is known for their filet mignon.
We had the banh beo, it was ok but not as good as Quan Vy Da.
The luc lac with rice was delicious! The filet mignon was cooked perfect. On the side, we had filet mignon soup, where they serve the meat raw but you gotta dump it into the small cup of soup. It was soo good!!
I would recommend this place for the filet mignon for sure.
Filet Mignon, Pho and Bun Bo Hue! Expensive! Minus one Star for Price.
Yes, in life we do make many mistakes. Even when we think we have our routines down, we still make a mistake. Like yesterday. Craving pho, we headed over to Pho 86 on Brookhurst. Forgot da casholee! Crap.
Quick on my feet, I knew just down the street was Quan Hop.
~~Bun Bo Hue-4 Stars
Yummy. I will leave it at that. You can see the picture I posted. Pretty much like any other. For sure it was good. My issue..The price. $7.50 plus tax.
~~Pho Hop-4 Stars
Pretty good pho. I prefer Pho 86, Pho 79, or even 54 down the street.
My issue and a minus star...$7.75! How can you charge 7.75? None of the other places charge that. In fact, there are 4-6 places within a 30 second car ride that are 50% off. Granted, they may be a little less tasty, but I'd rather save the 3 bucks.
~~Filet Mignon with Rice and Veggies (Com Bo Luc Lac)-5 Stars.
The taste was exquisite. Tenderly prepared, finely marinated filet Mignon delicately placed on a bed of rice which was accented with a mixture of veggies including fresh tomatoes. Very well prepared. This was $10.00,
So, I really enjoyed this dish so I will remain silent regarding its price. This was worth it.
~~Want Lemonade/Da Chanh? $2.50 please.
So, this place takes credit cards, has hard wood floors and pretty salt water fish in a giant tank and two waterfalls. This is one of the places in Bolsa that might be ok to take someone on a first date.
Food is pretty darn good, but so are many places in Bolsa. If you are coming here with a group of 4, be prepared to see a bill over $45.00 including the tax. Overall, I give the quality and the taste of the food at least 4 stars.
Service-4 stars.
Price -Minus at least (1) Star, except for the Com Bo Luc Lac.
My bill was over $30.00. I have not spent this type of money in a long time in Bolsa. I can compare this to a 9 dollar bill for 2 orders of Pho Ga with 2 orders of Cafe Sua Da at a place 5 minutes away. Or, at Quan Vy Da my average bill for the same quantity of food would be about half that. Quan Vy Da also has a pond and water fall.
Parking is great. Overall, I probably will come here again. I just feel a bit overwhelmed by the price, especially compared to all the other places in the area giving free drinks or 40%-50% off deals. I just wont order the pho. I will perhaps order the Bun Bo Hue (Cause it was Yummy) and for sure would order the Filet Mignon and Rice!
Quan Hy seems better although it's a sister restaurant. The bun bo hue was pretty bad and they were cheap with the meat...
While I love me some authentic asian restaurants, some are a bit lacking in the ambience & cleaniness & decor departments so every once in a while it's nice to walk into a place like Quan Hop, which is clean, quiet, and charmingly decorated with bamboo and electronic bugs. You'll see what I mean by electronic bugs.
Nearly every table had the bun beo, the little condiment sized dishes of steamed rice cake topped with minced shrimp and scallions and sauced with spicy fish sauce. I ordered the Bun Tit Nuong which was just alright, the noodles were on the soft side and the shrimp were old. He ordered the beef stew over rice noodles and loved it. The beef was tender and the soup was surprisingly light and liquid.
Quan Hop is good... I actually ate there today and liked it better the first time.
Today we ordered the Goi Hen (manila clam salad) which is shredded banana flower, onion, cilantro, mints, with baby clams and crushed peanuts.... this is then served on a puffed cracker (similar to oyster crackers). YUM!
Next we had Banh It Ram which is described as a potsticker with mushrooms and shrimp served on crispy rice. This is definitely not the typical potsticker that you would think of. It's actually a glutinous rice ball with the above mentioned ingredients stuffed inside, then placed on fried rice dough.. it's actually really good too!
The so so dish was the Cha Ca (clay pot type fish) and the Bun Hen (baby clams rice vermicelli). There just wasn't enough flavor in either of them for me and fish was VERY greasy.
Overall, it was good food, but after having some of the more eccentric Central Vietnamese dishes of Quan Minh Ky, I would rather go there before returning here (even though this was my first taste of the regional cuisine). Sorry Quan Hop, but I've moved on....
I have to be honest, I've never ever had pho here. And there is a reason for that - WHO THE F*** want to eat pho if you've had their Bun Bo Hue! (spicy beef noodle)!! Yes, it's THAT good!!!
I've never had Bun Bo Hue before this restaurant so after the first time I tried it, I thought that's what they taste like everywhere you go... OMG, am I wrong... Let's just say, I don't eat Bun Bo Hue anywhere else anymore even if you pay me to eat it!!! lol
OOOHHH, and the Banh Beo (rice cake with chopped shrimps on top, serve with shrimp cakes on the side) is also a MUST- see my pics =)
I crave to eat at this restaurant at least once and week and I've never been disappointed. There is just nothing bad to say about this place - very clean, modern decors, super friendly service (one of the waiters actually helped my friend jumpstar his car one time), and amazing food!
I will keep coming back and won't stop telling ppl about it =D
The 5 star rating here is based on taste and ambiance.
I never had the pho here, so the 5 star rating has nothing to do with the pho.
What did i base it on then? Their Bun Bo Hue (spicy beef noodle) and banh beo (rice cake with shrimp/pork).
My GOD
the Bun Bo Hue here was good! I've been to couple other places where their bun bo hue was recommended, but man... nothing tops Quan Hop's.
Their broth was so good...and even refreshing. I dont think the word "refreshing" usually goes along with Bun Bo Hue, but thats the only way I can describe it. Im not too hardcore with some types of food, so them not having the blood cubes was a good thing for me (I know for some of you this is a bad thing). The side of spicy garlic/ginger thing they give you also was a plus, making the soup tastier :d
Their Banh Beo was great stuff too, but a bit pricey.
Oh yea, and this place was the nicest looking vietnamese restaurant i've been to! I've been to clean ones before (which usually dont taste that great), but this was both clean AND nice looking. I usually dont care for this kind of stuff, but the place DID surprise me. Plus points.
So people. Dont come here and order the average tasting Pho for an above average price (for Westminster standards). That wont do u any good.
me out,
not $7.50 being expensive for a Bun Bo Hue, just...
NOT THAT BAD FOR SOUTH BAY STANDARDS!!!!
A new friend recommended this place to me..... we had filet mignon pho... the service was very fast!... it was a relaxing environment but I didn't feel like I was on a Saigon street corner or anything... too much of a commercialized place for pho..
While we were eating a group of 20 year old kids came in and sang and then were asking for donations for kids in Asia or something like that... they got $2 out of me...glad to help =)
This restaurant and Quan Hy are supposed to be connected but the quality of their food is definitely different.
Pros: The bun rieu was not bad but it had too much going on with tofu, 3 oc (snails), huyet (blood), crab clumps, shrimp paste. Just too convoluted. The broth was good though.
Cons: The banh beo chen (soft rice cakes) was smaller than Quan Hy and was rather pasty. They were also out of cha (the shrimp or pork paste). The worse was the banh uot thit nuong (bbq meat wrapped in rice cake) because it was wrapped poorly and there was barely any grilled meat.
There are too many Vietnamese restaurants around for this place to stand out. They're slightly more expensive than other pho places in the same location.
Pho was average.
The beef in beef stew needs to be trimmed...there was 50% fat lingering on the meat, and the flavor was off.
The restaurant itself is cleaner than the usual pho joint though.
3.5 stars
So this was my first time ordering bun rieu EVER because I just don't think anything compares to my mother's cooking. And after this visit, I can still stick to what I have said before. It's not that it was bad... it just wasn't that great - but sure, it was good. The bun rieu was actually kind of spicy (different from what I'm used to) but still very satisfying.
DAYAAAAAAAM THE PHO FILLET MIGNON IS BOMB DIGGITY GOOD!!!!
hands down the best pho i've ever had.
at first i was weary about how clean this place was
clean asian restaurants are usually a bad thing
when they are clean they SUCK!
the nastier the better at asian restaurants
this place changed my views in life about asian restaurants
its clean and they serve REALLY GOOD food
never thought pho would ever cost 9 bucks especially with the way the economy is going but damn i'd pay 9 bucks any day for this pho.
We had lunch here because we have been craving a good place to get pho since our neighborhood Vietnamese restaurant closed down. It was a long wait and we were looking forward to the meal. I enjoyed what I had although I have had better. The filet mignon pho was what others had recommended and that's what I tried.
It was good, but not as good as elsewhere. But it was good enough that I would definitely go back.
Service was positive. In fact we had two people (at separate times) stop by to take our order. If I were a bit hungrier i might have placed orders with both.
The place is clean which is always a sign of something good. And a lot of local people were here enjoying their lunch.
I tried out this place thanks to my favorite food blogger (http://elmomonster.blo...) who makes the food sound unbelievably delicious. There's just no way I can do it justice, so read his review and go from there.
All I have to say is that he was right, the Bun Rieu was amazing, spicy, crab-y and the noodles were perfect. I would definitely go back here again.
Don't be fooled by the decor, the waiters are still kinda rude and don't really answer you just like in a dirty pho restaurant and the food is wayyyy better (It totally doesn't follow the dirty asian places are better rule)
Seriously though, stop reading my review and read his. Just try not to drool while you read.
http://elmomonster.blo.../
You come here for the banh beo and the banh it ram. Everything else is great, but not spectacular. Everything tastes "clean" and lacks that bit of oomph! factor. For instance the bun bo hue. I like it spicy and with deep bold flavors (bordering on stinky!). Here, it is more . . . genteel. If you have a big group of picky eaters, this place is perfect, as there is something for everyone and everything tastes just fine. Service will usually be better than at Quan Hy as the owners are usually taking care of business over here.
Quan Hy's approachable younger sister. Come in during lunch or dinner and chill out to the similar "running water" ambience that makes Quan Hy different from other Vietnamese restaurants. Great for people-watching too... I must say, there have always been attractive couples and milfs grabbing a bite to eat every time I've been here.
Quan Hop seems to have a slightly different menu, but basically the same flavor and styling in their dishes. Recommended if you're looking for a tasty but not too heavy lunch in the Little Saigon area.
Quan Hop is a nice and clean Vietnamese restaurant, which is more than I can say for many of them in that area. The interior is quite modern, and actually kind of reminded me of a sushi bar.
I've had the bun rieu here and it was quite tasty. They surprised me with the sea snails inside, as it wasn't described as bun rieu oc on the menu.
My friend had the pho with filet mignon, and it was quite tasty. They served the filet mignon bits in the proper style... on the side with a cup of hot broth so that it doesn't overcook.
While I'm not a big fan of Vietnamese food, I would definitely come back here for lunch or dinner. The price is a little high compared to other places serving similar food, but I think you pay for the atmosphere more than anything else.
(Part of the Jungle Food Marathon Series)
Our next destination is Little Saigon and a trendy Vietnamese restaurant Quan Hop. This is my first real experience with Vietnamese food, and it sure to not be my last. I was eager to try every Bahn Mi and noodle dish on the menu, but being our last stop I was about 80% full already. So we shared a variety of dishes. They start you off with a Banh Beo, steamed rice-flour pancakes topped with chopped veggies and little pieces of pork. We also had Banh It Ram (uber-gooey Vietnamese rice paste potstickers), Tu Tiu Hop Dai (rice noodles with pork and shrimp), Banh Hoi Thit Nuong (thin sliced sheets of vermicelli noodles topped with grilled pork), Jack Fruit Salad, and finally Goi Cuon Nem Lui (deep fried shrimp paste spring rolls).
$8 is a lot to pay for pho tai, or noodle soup with filet mignon. I liked it and would take my newbie friends here but that's pretty much it. There are better and cheaper options out there.
A friend told me that you know the food is good and authentic when their own people eat there. For instance, would you see Chinese eating at a place for Chinese food if it was bad or not authentic. Of course not. They know where to get their own food. Quan Hop seems to one of those places.
Quan Hop was bustling with activity when I went in there, mostly younger generation Vietnamese. Though this place is a little small there was a small wait (~15 minutes), about 10 people cramp into the foyer of the place.
The decor was nice and upscale for a straight forward Vietnamese restaurant. The restaurant is clean too unlike some of the hole in the wall places I have been in around Little Saigon. The staff were young and helpful recommending their best dish.
The food was not straight traditional Vietnamese but the chef's interpretation and slight variation on it. The Thit Ba Luc Lac was pretty good. The beef was tender and flavorful. The filet/ shrimp with noodles and veggies (think Bun Thit Nuong but with beef and shrimp instead of pork, sorry can't remember the name at the moment) was tasty and filling. The beef was shredded so it could have been any cut not necessarily filet. The dish as a whole was nice.
I do not think I saw an item on the menu that cost more than $8.
I think this place is worth another look.
Decor: 4
Service: 3.5
Food: 3.75
Cost: 5
Average: 4
$7.75 for pho tai bo vien. Whoa... I don't think I ever paid that much for pho before. Husband had the bun rui. He really liked it. Overall, I thought the experience was so so. The pho was nothing special compared to the ones I have had. Maybe I ordered the wrong thing. The interior was really nice and clean. The patrons seem more upscale. But then again, if I wan't to go to an upscale place, I wouldn't be going for pho. The service was so so, and they kept insisting on speaking Vietnamese to us... =P Do I look Vietnamese? Overall, it's a 3 stars place. No more no less. I will probably not come back again.
I'm a germaphobe and I'm Vietnamese. With those given, I rarely enjoy a Vietnamese restaurant because 1) when's the last time you saw a clean Vietnamese restaurant? and 2) I only like my mom's pho. Quan Hop is an exception to the case. Even though the price for a bowl of pho is higher than the Little Saigon average, it's the cost for good cleanliness, decor, and service. And I'm more than willing to pay that cost. The interior of Quan Hop is actually well decorated and modern. My bowl of filet mignon pho was piping hot and steaming, as it always should be. The broth was flavorful and the noodles just about right--not too mushy, not too hard.
Quan Hop is a refreshing choice in a community with filled with cookie cutter pho shops and cheap eat Lee's.
$8 for pho?!?!!! Oh man, the pho was good but I never thought I'd see the day where pho was $8 (and included rare filet mignon). Great broth, great presentation, overall good pho. Yum.
But their special iced tea is AMAZING! Something totally awesome, like a mojito or something? Can't put my finger on it but it's totally intriguing. The service is a step up from Quan Hy...which is not saying much because I think the service at Quan Hy sort of sucks. Quan Hop service is so-so at best.
My first time in Westminister eating Vietnamese food.
Nice decor and the meat in the Pho Hop was tasty. Fish cake rolls were interesting too with an egg nog type of dipping sauce.
See my photos. I've attached two.
Not sure if I will be back since there are soooo many Viet restaurants on this strip.
I'd gone to Quan Hy not long ago and since this was its sister restaurant, I thought I'd give Quan Hop a try this time. I must've driven past this place a dozen times and not even realized it was there. My GPS had gotten me to the location but I still didn't see it. I had to call a friend to get the exact spot.
The interior was nice, not like your regular Vietnamese restaurants, but I liked Quan Hy's decor better. I thought it was funny how at Quan Hy they were playing jazz while at Quan Hop, the music was more 80s -- Wham!
Hubby said he wasn't all that hungry so we opted for the banh beo with shrimp and the beef salad. I think the menu said filet mignon salad. The banh beo arrived first, no different to the one I had at Quan Hy except this time, there were 4 rectangles of shrimp pattie with it. Shrimp pattie was good, flavorful. Banh beo was the same but the sauce was very weak here, not much flavor at all.
The filet mignon salad arrived and I was like WTF??? For $12.50 I expected something a lot bigger and more flamboyant than the plate which arrived. Ingredients included: Chinese celery, cilantro, onions, banana blossoms, ginger, white snow fungus, sesame seeds and beef. I mean it tasted good, but the beef itself didn't do anything for me. It didn't have much flavor and looked and tasted like it was boiled rather than grilled.
All in all it's okay. I preferred Quan Hy far better.
Wow, I'm surprised no one has written anything about this place. I've heard that Quan Hop is the cousin restaurant to Quan Hy. In terms of quality, I would say they are comparable. The crowd? Is there such a thing as a Vietnamese yuppie? Go to Quan Hop and you'll understand.
The Bun Xeo taste just like ones at Quan Hy. They had the best fresh sesame balls I've ever had. I order the cubed filet...they served it differently than other places...looked like a farmer's market exploded on the plate. Tasty though.
A modern chic atmosphere with tunes from the 80's (new wave baby!) Even a bar area for lonely diners...
So food tasted good and the atmosphere is hip...why 3 stars? I paid 59 bucks including tip for 2 people...w/o alki....maybe b/c I'm Chinese..but there is something wrong with paying more than 10 bucks a person for Vietnamese food. If priced better, i would give it a 4.
Would I go back? Sure, if Quan Hy has a wait. The menu is not as extensive as Quan Hy, but the favorites are there.
The reason why I rate them only 3 stars is because the prices are a bit high compared to most Vietnamese restaurants in the area for the type of food they're selling (Hue Food) and is good, but not spectacular.
When I come here I order Banh Hoi Thit Nuong. Its well made and tasty, a bit pricey but it isn't a really popular dish so is not common to find it in many menus. The other thing worth ordering if you come here is the Banh Beo, is super well made. Probably their specialty.
I guess is a good place if you are bringing friends that wouldn't feel comfortable in the yummier but hole in the wall looking places. The place is super clean and is well decorated. If you're looking for taste despite the decor, go somewhere else, really, depending on what you want to eat. There are better and cheaper spots for Pho and Bun Bo Hue so I wouldn't recommend wasting the $10 here.
A lot of people eat here, so you usually have to wait for an open table. The wait is usually a few minutes, which isn't that bad. Clean, nice decor...It's definitely not a hole in the wall, but the food is still pretty good.
Pho is more expensive than most places in the area, but it's still good pho and the price isn't THAT bad. The veggies are just enough for me too. The filet mignon meat looked like a hacked up piece of meat with ground pepper over it, but was good enough.
I haven't tried the bun bo hue, but my cousin liked it and it looked pretty good.
Too much ice in the Soda Lemonade (Soda Chanh)! :(
OMG those bite-sized sesame balls filled with either red or yellow beans are so good!! There are 5 in each order, I think, and I can probably eat 3 on average. I COULD eat more, but too much fried goodness isn't a good thing.
Located in just north of the 405 freeway and before the 22 is Quan Hop, sister restaurant to Quan Hy, which is located off on Bolsa near the Little Saigon Mall.
Quan Hop is definitely worth stopping by if you're ever in the area. One of my favorite dishes is the Beef Stew over Rice, or with bread, or over vermicilli--it doesn't matter, it's goddamn good. It's flavored with black pepper and hints of coconut and curry. Make sure you try the baked goods located near the cashier, i call them little balls of sesame heaven. They are sweet yet savory. Also give the soda lemonade a shot, it's very refreshing on a warm day.
I frequent Quan Hop with my husband. We sometimes go to Quan Hy as well, the sister restaurant. Quan Hop is not as crowded as Quan Hy. The wait is a lot shorter with just as great food. The ambiance is nice and relaxing.
I usually get the vermicelli with egg rolls or the diced cube beef over rice. The cube beef is definitely my favorite with pineapple, tomatoes, cucumbers and the yummy soy garlic sauce. My husband prefers the Beef stew which is really appetizing as well.
The service is friendly and great! The food also comes out in a timely manner.
Very good place to eat. The food and right on point with my asian taste even though the look of this place is more americanized. When going here, you will be surrounded by fobs trying to dress young, you know how they are. The food is good though. The rolls with the brown dip, i forgot what its called, is really good even though it may fall apart. Eat here though, the fobs wont bite!
This is the kind of place someone who's wary of trying unfamiliar food from unfamiliar country might enter and feel safe.
The interior is modern and elegant and seems to scream, at first glance, "Americanized food". It gives the impression that you can trust foods served here, that everything is adjusted to your palate and taste, no shock foods here.
This is a good place for newbies who don't want to expend the energy trying to decide whether you should take a bite or not, turning over the food for inspection as you think, wishing you were someplace else, maybe like one of my sisters or unadventurous friends.
Americanized food? Not here, at least for the Pho (The only item I had so far). The noodles were al-dente (Not "firm" but al-dente that I rarely experience with rice noodles). Noodles were good, no doubt about it. I'll have to inspect them closer the next time to make sure they weren't spaghetti. (Huh..., maybe Americanized after all? We'll see).
The soup is a bit of a conundrum, bit of confusion for me. It goes down like a good Sake or Wine, smooth as water. This soup goes down like water but obviously it's not water. It has no offensive taste anywhere but it was also hard to grasp its flavor. All I can say is it's light and smooth and good to the last drop.
The rare beef was pretty good, tasty. The meatballs which I rarely eat was ok actually (I'm still not used to the meat balls as I don't trust what's inside nor the quality). Flavor was mild and clean with slight spice like after taste.
The service was curt and polite and fast. Interior is not glitzy actually and is very relaxing (at least when it was nearly empty prior to the lunch hour traffic).
I like what I saw and had so far. Maybe I found a place I can drag family members to that no one will complain about (Good). They'll want to come here every week on me? (Bad).
This restaurant is the sister or brother or sibling whatever you wanna call it of Quan Hy so the presentation of the foods were very similar to Quan Hy's. I love banh beo and this place has good banh beo. I can down 2+ orders of these things lol.
Sesame balls here are pretty good. They're small and hot with a tastey inside.
The banh it ram is good also. They placed the dumpling on a crunchy cracker but man the dumpling is pretty sticky!
By the way, dodge this place if you know your parents go to this place and you dont wanna be seen near them lol. The last time I went here, my mom and her b/f were there. Then all of a sudden, a bunch of her friends that know me were there also at other tables. My mom knows too many people lol. but hey, my mom paid for me and my "friend's" lunch so it's all good! ;)
So, I finally had my first bowl of pho in the OC that didn't make me want to tear the hair on my head out by its roots. The broth wasn't totally worthless, and the meat was tender. Still, I can't really be happy about spending $7s on a bowl of pho here. I mean, it isn't bad, but it's not really what I'm looking for. I need something cheaper and meatier; something I could eat regularly. I think I need to find a place that is a little less clean and trendy.
The place itself was nice though. Especially, if you want banh it ram, banh beo, and bun bo hue and all your friends just want .. plain ol' pho. And, even if there are paranoid germaphobes, who generally avoid Vietnamese restaurants like the plague, present in your group, well, everyone can be happy.
We always seem to order their Banh Beo (rice cakes with shrimp & scallions with fish sauce) and the rice plate with pork and eggs. Just tried, tested and true to good vietnamese food.
Nice looking and a clean venue makes it one of the better vietnamese places to go to.
I loved this place. It was clean and the food was fresh. And if you love garlic, you will love their fish sauce, there is plenty of garlic in it. It's a tad pricier than other Vietnamese restaurants in the area though, but worth it.


