Mother’s Vietnamese Kitchen — Restaurant in Hamilton

Ordered a beef noodle soup with flank beef and beef balls. It's my usual order at a new vietnamese restaurant.

I heard bad things about this restaurant, but they had a health inspection on March 21st or 22nd so I gave it a shot.

The place was clean. It looks almost identical to how it was with the last owners.

The server was not very helpful or seemed too interested in customer service. She handed off the food...and when she punched up my order she didn't even have a spot where I could give her a tip so whatever, I guess if I'm not paying for service I'm fine with no service.

Food came out after 5 or so minutes. I ordered a 'large' which was $8. Medium is $7.50. Not sure why prices are so close together, but the large was not very large.

The green onion they had on top looked wilted. Probably because this place doesn't get a lot of business.

However, the broth tasted clean and delicious. Not too salty. The beef balls were also very good. And the flank beef was fantastically tender...really very good.

I would be happy to go back. I don't care about bad service if they aren't asking for tip. And the prices are not the best, but $8 is not terrible (although at the vietnamese restaurant in jackson square at Nations you can get a bowl 2x as big for $7.50...although it doesn't taste quite as nice...still good though).

I also forgot to mention that the noodles seemed a bit...

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