La Sen Vietnamese Restaurant — Restaurant in Sydney

For fresh, tasty and traditional Vietnamese food in Randwick, a visit to La Sen is a must! Even before walking into this restaurant I could smell the aroma of delicious Vietnamese flavours such as grilled meats and aromatic herbs as I was approaching. You can order take away and there is a decent amount of seating inside the restaurant.

The extensive menu contains all of your favourite dishes from spring rolls and summer rolls for starters, a range of fresh salads, stir fries, everyone’s favourite noodle pho and my favourite - the vermicelli bun salads.

We ordered the following dishes: ‘All in One’ vermicelli bun salad - this was topped with an assortment of sugarcane prawn, pork skewers, pork spring rolls and grilled pork. Underneath was fresh vermicelli tossed in a tangy garlic fish sauce with lettuce, cucumber and pickled salad. Topped with saute' spring onions, roasted peanuts, shallots and fresh herbs. This was a winner, I often can’t choose which option and this was perfect as there was a little bit of everything to try.

Vietnamese green papaya salad - delicately tossed with prawns, sliced pork, pickled salad, onions, green apple, fresh herbs and roasted peanuts. Served with prawn crackers. Loved the fresh, crunchy flavours of this aromatic dish. Minced pork and mushroom (Ban Cuon) - steamed rice noodle roll with a delicious filling inside served with homemade tangy fish sauce. The outside rice noodle roll was soft and delicate. I haven’t had this dish in ages, it certainly satisfied all cravings.

Summer Rice Paper Rolls with sugar cane prawns - served with La Sen homemade peanut hoisin sauce. Loved the dipping sauce and the fresh, healthy ingredients inside the paper rolls.

There is also a decent drinks list, from beers, soft drinks, crushed ice drinks (we had the watermelon crush, very refreshing!) and of course, the Vietnamese iced coffee.

Overall, a tasty experience at La Sen, I’m keen to try the pho noodle soup and other dishes off the menu. La Sen also offering catering for corporate parties and events.

Thank you to the staff at La Sen for looking after us.

Note: I dined as a guest...

⭐️LA SEN VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT - RANDWICK⭐️ The thing I love about Vietnamese food is that the dishes are fresh, healthy and flavourful! Not only does La Sen serve the traditional beef noodle soup (Pho), they have the Vietnamese savoury pancakes and my favourite, the combination Vermicelli noodles! Being Vietnamese myself, they definitely got the flavours right! Yumm 😋 . . Note: Check out their newly renovated restaurant from Monday 19th August! It’s three doors up from the original store! LA SEN also has a large and successful catering business called CHAO CATERING. They cater to many areas in Sydney, with their product being produced in Randwick & Crows Nest. . . FEATURED: ⭐️ Shaken Beef (Bo Luc Lac) - flamed premium beef eye fillet wok tossed in butter, garlic, capsicum, snow peas & black pepper! - great paired with rice! . ⭐️La Sen All in One vermicelli bowl (Bun Tron) - Sugarcane prawn, pork skewers, spring rolls & grilled pork meat. So fresh and tasty, each meat is well marinated and adds a different texture to this dish! . ⭐️Prawn & Lean Pork Rice Paper rolls (Goi Cuon) - loved the peanut hoisin sauce dipping sauce here 😍 . ⭐️Vietnamese Crispy Pancakes (Banh Xeo) - served with pork, prawns, Mung beans, bean sprouts, salad and fish sauce! - the serving is quite generous compared to other places I’ve been too! So delicious 😍 . ⭐️Watermelon juice & Vietnamese coffee . Thanks OmptyMedia...

A lovely restaurant situated on Perouse Road. It is a casual eatery with your standard Vietnamese favourites and suitable for nearly everyone.

The service is hospitable and very friendly. Easy to get their attention if you needed anything.

We started of with some fresh and light Roasted Duck Summer Rice Paper Rolls. Filled with juicy duck, vermicelli, and salad, this was a great start to the meal and tasty with the homemade peanut hoisin sauce. The Duck Crispy Pancake was crisp and not oily at all. It was generously filled with duck and bean sprouts. Accompanied by a crisp salad.

Continued with Premium Wagyu Beef Noodle Soup. The broth was lovely and the meat was very tender as it was better quality than most beef pho. The Special Combination Pork Vermicelli Bowl had marinated pork, pork balls, and spring rolls. Perfect for this summer weather it is light and fresh with the salad and enough yummy protein to keep you full.

It was buzzing with people for lunch and seems to be a firm favourite...