January 3, 2011: Thanh Nga Ix Ii

Loving Hut on Victoria St, but cause got consistently turned upwardly to discovery them closed. Unsurprisingly nosotros failed ane time again on the novel years solar daytime populace holiday, but the ride out to Richmond wasn't inward vain.  We had Thanh Nga Nine upwardly our sleeve, a veg-friendly Vietnamese house that had taken our fancy on our first visit.

The ride at that topographic point had combined my afternoon sleepiness with roughly overheating, then the Vietnamese iced white java ($3) was the perfect drinkable - sweet, mutual frigidness together with super strong, the caffeine together with H2O ice presently had me feeling human again. Cindy couldn't resist ordering the Thanh Nga Nine Special Lemon ($4), which had the same delicious H2O ice pile every bit my java together with tasted essentially similar iced tea.


We based our nutrient ordering almost alone on a comment Ruth left on our final post, starting with the vegetarian mini pancakes($9).

These were amazing picayune crispy delights: rice pancakes filled with a fried chunk of tofu, diverse delicious herbs together with spices together with served upwardly with kokosnoot cream together with chilli sauce (we didn't discovery the faux-shrimp Ruth promised but were all the same completely won over). They were merely outstanding - it was painful to cause got to percentage them.

Luckily, our other social club was almost every bit successful: spicy tabular array salt together with pepper fish-tofu ($15, note: no fish were harmed inward the making of this dish).

Just await at that picture! Gloriously deep-fried tofu together with seaweed chunks, dressed with crispy peanuts, carmine together with greenish capsicum pieces together with cloak-and-dagger chunks of chilli. I dabbed on a flake of the fantabulous chilli sauce from with the available condiments together with I was inward luncheon heaven. We'd been pretty excited to endeavour out the exceptional tofu balls for dessert but nosotros were both likewise amount together with dessert would cause got left us incapable of eating dinner earlier xi at night.  We'll cause got to provide for roughly other shot soon.

The only quibble with Thanh Nga Nine is the service - it's friendly enough, but everything's a flake slapdash. Our 2 drinks came nigh fifteen minutes apart, together with the meals were served upwardly ane subsequently the other (it was lucky we'd decided to percentage it all). Still, I tin forgive a flake of disorganisation when the goal effect is a luncheon every bit delicious every bit this. Highly recommended.

Read nigh our previous catch to Thanh Nga Nine here.

Since nosotros starting fourth dimension visited, M1rr0r, Half-Eaten together with Niche cause got enjoyed inexpensive meaty feasts at TNN, piece My Food Odyssey had a less enjoyable time.

We're pretty inward dearest with Thanh Nga Nine, but if anyone has other veg-friendly Vietnamese recommendations drib us a comment, I actually desire to explore to a greater extent than of what Victoria St (and beyond) has to offer.