Roll'd — Restaurant in Western Australia

All my friends know, I really bite my tongue when I have to eat at a shopping mall, but Roll'd Vietnamese Food is just too good to walk on past.

I'm not a food snob by any means, because I will try almost anything, anywhere. And I have cooked professionally for a very long time, so I get it when shopping mall restaurants have such exorbitant bills to cover. Something has to give and normally it is the quality.

But the big but stops at the Mandurah Forum. Roll'd Vietnamese Food is really good!

My wife introduced me a few months ago, on an ad hoc "I'm hungry" moment and ordered two Lemongrass Beef baguettes. When they arrived I felt like I was being given a Bunnings sausage sizzle offering. But I shut up quickly. It was so good and full of flavour!

Today I had my fourth baguette and again...home run! But this time I did another leap of faith and tried (shared) a Pho.

I'm not a ranking Phở Connoisseur but I know good/great when I see and eat it. I loved the citrus, lemon flavour and the soft beef and noodle broth with sprinkles of coriander. There was chicken in there, but it looked like a slice of cheese, so i dodged that this time.

But I did pour and slurp every dreg out of my black bowl, without humility. I love being proved wrong.

Go there, enjoy. Expect nothing and get the Vietnamese...

A very disappointing prawn salad. The prawns were cut in half down the middle and laid out to appear as if you had a nice amount of prawns however they only turned out to be halves. Probably a good thing in the end as the prawns were tasteless, limp and soft as if they had been soaking in water a long time. The dressing, given in a separate container, was so watered down as to be totally tasteless. There was no flavour at all. I've had vietnamese before and know how flavoursome the dressing should be. Very disappointing. The only redeeming factor was that the salads were...

We went to Roll'd Mandurah today specifically for a banh mi. The pork and crackling banh mi would have to be close to the best banh mi we've tasted. The pork, crackling, pickled carrot, Mayo, pate, cucumber and coriander were so fresh, the roll had been heated so was crispy but soft. Definitely a 10/10. Will be back for sure to try other menu items. The staff were all friendly and even though it was quite busy in the Cafe, the atmosphere was nice. Cannot fathom why we hadn't tried this...