Hien Thanh Restaurant

legit homemade vietnamese dishes

Good Vietnamese traditional family dining with marinated catfish and hot and sour soup ????

My family try this restaurant from the recommendation of a friend. Restaurant is small. We had to wait for 15 minutes to get a table, which is a norm here in Little Saigon. Lol. We got the menu as soon as we were seated.
As recommended by our friend, we ordered a chicken salad which was quite tasty, the shredded cabbage was mixed with shredded chicken and it served with shrimp chips. Next, the sour soup catfish, and caramelize braised catfish which are typicall family dinner food for people from the south of Vietnam. The blandness of sour soup was a disappointment. The soup tasted like vinegar mixed in water. The braised catfish was bit salty because it was so thin slice, it absorbed the saltiness of the fish sauce so fast. Another disappointment.
Service was OK, but, we won't be back. There are some restaurants that taste much better than this place.

Excellent mom-and-pops Vietnamese traditional meals, Com Phan, with delicious home cooked dishes. It's about authentic tastes and flavors: quality over quantity. Clean place and quick, courteous service. Another plus, they take credit cards. It's busy even for Tuesday evening. Highly recommended.