Vietnamese Huong Vy - Fantastic Value for Money

Again about food. I just can't help it, Vietnamese cuisine is just too good not to be mentioned as often as possible. We were looking for a good place to eat the other day. That's not hard to find, you'd say, but it had to meet many conditions: close to the tourist area where we were hanging out (waiting for the house hunting on Monday); very close to the exact place where we were at that time, because menacing clouds were covering the sky and we had found out a day before what tropical rain meant; very cheap and tasty; vegetarian menu available. So we found this place - Huong Vy, 177 Pham Ngu LAo St. A real gem.



It doesn't look elegant - it's a typical Vietnamese medium-sized eatery located in the front room of someone's house I guess. You can say it looks like a garage. But it has iron tables, not plastic, clean red table cloths, and iron chairs. There are also some tables and plastic chairs outside, but I wouldn't stay there, because you can risk being harassed by local vendors.

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The menu is friendly - in English and Vietnamese. The have a large variety of vegetarian dishes, pork, chicken, beef, seafood, fish, Italian and Mexican food, as well as cheap beers: Tiger, LaRue, BIG, San Miguel, etc. Nothing it's pricey - the same hot pot we've had at the Ben Than market had been twice as expensive as here: 280,000 VND, compared to 155,000 VND here (max!). Beers are 13,000 - 25,000 VND/bottle, a bottle of Dalat red wine is 25,000 VND, and a dish is tipically 20,000-50,000 VND.

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We've started with a plate of vegetarian spring rolls, accompanied by some soy and Hoisin sauce, then a plate of crispy noodles with seafood and vegetables and one of stewed vegetables and tofu, plus a green salad. Simply delicious and excellent service. A downside I should mention: only one toilet, very small and not very clean. However, a highly recommended eatery.



Huong Vy - Vietnamese Restaurant - Huong Vy, 177 Pham Ngu LAo St., District 1. Payment in cash.