Viet Food is a Vietnamese restaurant serving authentic street food in the heart of Soho, Wardour Street off Chinatown. I first heard of Viet Food from my dad and suggested we try out this new place.
Thankfully, the service was a little compromised as my dad knew the manager that runs the restaurant so we were able to rock up and be seated within 5 mins. The restaurant has two floors but both floors were pretty much packed out at around 7pm so their food must be pretty good as they were only opened for less than a week. As usual, I let my dad do all the ordering and yapping in Cantonese with the manager as everything on the menu sounded cool! It was a one pager menu so it was pretty straight forward and less decision making. There were a lot of sharing dishes which is great, this meant we could order more and sample it all. First up was the pomelo and prawn salad; it was the perfect and unusual combination but it just worked so well! the citrus dressing with the burst of flavours from the pomelo balanced each other out and I really wanted to order another one.
Starters:
Pork Spring Rolls: hand made rolls before serving; I wrapped the lettuce around the spring roll before dipping into fish sauce. We ordered two of these once we cleaned out the first plate.
Goi Cuon Prawn Summer Rolls: simple and healthy (I can’t remember the sauce we had) but they were pretty big. Nothing special really as it’s the same summer roll you would find everywhere else.
The fried chicken dish was ok, it was a start dish to share and didn’t think it was anything special.
Main:
I ordered the classic beef pho which wasn’t as flavoursome as eg Bone Daddies. In fact, I liked that the broth soup wasn’t intense so it suited my palette very well for me to drink it up. Some might complain as the traditional Pho is rather flavoursome from a 12 hour bone marrow stock.
Desserts:
I really can’t remember the life of me of what that jelly-seed squidgy dessert was called! It was so unusual it reminded me a bit like grass jelly with kiwi fruit seed (which isn’t). It’s definitely a novelty dessert where I can guarantee you won’t find anywhere else (I think) so give it a go and try it for yourself.
It’s a shame that the restaurant’s website isn’t quite live with their menu but you can see what there is to offer on their Instagram and Twitter. It is one of my favourite Vietnamese places so check it out when you can. May xx
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