Uyen Bui

My friend wanted to try this new spot and we decided to give it a try. For those who are new customers like us, it is just like a buffet hot pot. You go pick ingredients you want and put in a bowl. Then you go to cashier and they will weight it and you pay about $10/lb. They will ask what kinds of soup base you want to cook with your ingredients. They have spicy soup (about 3 levels), mushroom soup and tomato soup. The soup is good and goes well with fresh ingredients. The only problem is lots of ingredients in Chinese, even description of soup base. The employee is barely talking English. We were having hard time to understand what the employee said but she was trying very hard to communicate with us. I do recommend they should have dual languages, so non-Chinese customers like us can understand better.

It’s nice and clean store with purple color. The owner was very friendly. We ordered small “lau mam” for 3 of us. It came with a dish of seafood, vermicelli and vegetables. The broth is very flavorful. You can ask for more vegetables with free of charge. Even though it’s small size, it still made 3 of us very full. I think it’s good for 4 people too. I think I’ll come back to try other dishes on the menu.

Store is quite small. Around 10 tables. We came on Sunday noon and it was full. But they quickly seated us as soon as customers left. We ordered rice cake with shredded shrimp, rice cake with pork and shrimp, bun bo Hue and spicy clam vermicelli. It was for 3 of us. I recommend you should order rice cake first since it is fast for them to serve. The noodle might take longer. Everything is good but I don’t feel it is authentic Hue cuisine.