Address: 160 Victoria St, Richmond VIC
Tel: (03) 9427 7068
Now before we get to the food - please be careful. Every 2nd shop on this road has the word "Thanh" in the shop title, and my friend who originally booked for this place accidently called up the wrong place and restaurants will claim to be Thanh Nga 9 even though it is not (that or they can't understand English very well).
A very clean cut, Vietnamese restaurant serving a combination of authentic dishes and some mixed in from other Asian regions to serve the masses (e.g. Honey Chicken, Mongolian Lamb etc).
For entree:
Signature Minature Pancakes ST Style - made from rice flour with crispy base filled with prawns, mung bean paste & sprinkled with crush prawns, served with fish sauce & coconut sauce. They are not really a 'pancake' but for lack of better description they are shaped as more like a hardened pastry cup which tastes like a deep fried fortune cookie.
Spring roll: miniature sized eaten with mint & lettuce leaf
Betal Leaf Beef: square of rice vermicelli – really pungent spicy meat, betal (dirt) leaf
Rice roll: really fresh mint taste (not bitter), smelly rice paper
Tangy Tomato Soup – strong tomato flavour even through broth, enhanced by shrimp flavour.
Chilli sauce – fried oily? texture, savoury
