Club house hotel vietnamese cuisine — Restaurant in Singleton

Stone & Wood Pacific Ale ($7.50) is as fancy as craft beers get in Singleton’s Clubhouse Hotel. They’ve also got a Vietnamese bistro in the rather gloomy black and prison-grey rear. While some effort has been made to brighten up the dark space using colourful lanterns, red bistro chairs and bright Vietnamese paintings, we opted for clean air and blue skies by eating in the carpark marquee.

From the chalkboard menu, duck pancakes ($10/2) surprise with a big slab of glistening duck tied into a pliable pancake parcel with equally chunky cucumber, hoisin and a crisp shallot. Vietnamese pork buns ($7/each) have an excellent generously stuffed interior where aromats like lemongrass come to the fore. It’s let down by the uneven microwave heating method that makes one corner of the fluffy bun a bit tough, but has such an obvious house-made quality, I’d still call it a win.

Arriving in a cloud of steam, the sizzling lemongrass pork ($19) is tasty over steamed rice ($3). Ask for extra chilli at your own peril, the requested addition got my dining companion’s nose running and him reaching for my grilled pork vermicelli noodle bowl ($17) to ease the burn. Plucked from the surprisingly extensive regular menu, this noodle bowl is a reasonable rendition of this Vietnamese classic, but eclipsed by the tastier spicy lemongrass pork. Club House Hotel Vietnamese Cuisine provided a timely reminder that good things can often hide in the most...

Hubby and I ate there for the two nights we stayed in Singleton. It was so good! The dishes were delicious and fresh (Pineapple squid; King prawn with mushroom and snow peas; King prawn with ginger and shallot; Garlic and pepper king prawns) and the fried icecream was unlike any we've tried before, and was absolutely delicious... definitely worth the money! If we ever happen to be in Singleton again, we'd definitely go...

The pork was nice but the peanut sauce tasted like sugar the fried rice was very plain and I really don't get how a business these days expects a customer to pay 3 bucks to get cash out of a pub atm when it would cost them 30c to process a eftpos transaction. Other then they can dodge some tax another thing the customer isn't going to care about when there paying $3 to take cash out. Wouldn't recommend won't...