No magic in the Vietnamese moon @ 越亮

This restaurant previously used to be Fukui Tea Room, a restaurant that served Japanese scrambled eggs with toast similar to Hokkaido dairy milk farm.

It has now been replaced by a vietnamese restaurant.

 

When I went in, the decoration was much the same as before, the air-conditioning was freezing with water droplets dripping down.
There was odours from the outside sewer nearby seeping in.

The food on the menu was slightly more expensive than other Vietnamese joints.
I was attracted here by the previous pictures of the beef filet which turned out to be around $1xx per order.
The pricing was erratic, it was either very expensive for high end items such as huge prawns and beef filet or average priced for the usual items.
It was hard establishing whether they were serving high end items or just the usual fare.

In the end, I ordered the French beef in tomato sauce with red rice.
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French beef in tomato sauce with red rice
When it came, it just visually looked like beef cooked in tomato sauce with sliced onions.
The taste was exactly the same as the ones served in Chinese cafes and the fried rice tasted merely like "western fried rice" also from chinese cafes.
The beef was really disappointing it had so much fat and chewy bits in it and the rice was oily.
I suspect the beef pieces may have been odds and ends cut from the beef filet.
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The spoon was rather dirty too! So I grabbed another spoon from the other table and it did'nt fare any better.

 

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