The Vietnam House has little pretension about being fine dining. The restaurant sits next to Brickyard Pizza on View in a single width unit. A third of the space is filled with the open plan kitchen, and the rest a few chairs and tables. The art on the wall was painted by the owner, who was born and raised in Vietnam. The food is traditional and simple Vietnamese - Pho or Rice Noodles with meat. There are a couple of variation on this theme, but it's all basic.
Basic doesn't mean uninteresting though. On the specials occasionally (and I think you can always ask for it) is an awesome chicken curry : spicy, slightly creamy and made with perfectly cooked green beans. Around the $8 mark and a perfect lunch filler. The pho is a good big bowl full of noodles with your choice of meat cuts (including tripe, flank and tendon). My friend had the spicy beef stew, which is a pho dish with dash of chilli, big chunks of meat and buckets of noodle goodness. The meat however is definitely 'mystery', and looked to be two varieties of beef sausage made from various parts of the cow. This doesn't bother me, as it tastes good. Other's I know prefer to know which part of the animal they are eating.
The Vermicelli rice noodle dish I had was lemon grass chicken with spring roll. Plenty of flavour in the chicken, though the spring rolls were probably a touch over cooked. Right amount of carbs with it, and the tomato sauce has plenty of kick.
There's no atmosphere in the Vietnam house, and since it's been opened (about 2 years ago), I don't think they've had a proper strip down and clean out, so it feels a bit run down. Not some where to linger over dinner, but somewhere to grab good, cheap dinner to fortify yourself for the night ahead.
Location : 788 View Street
Telephone : (250) 384-3843
Website : None
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