Spicy Peppercorn Chinese & Vietnamese Restaurant — Restaurant in Prince Albert

Never been so happy to be wrong.

Let me explain.

Spicy Peppercorn has been around quite some time and years ago i ate there often at the behest of others. I always found the food middling at best and once they move locations i went exactly once. That visit was atrocious with the (since changed) owner openly and loudly berating staff, worse still the food was still middling. That was five plus years ago.

Add years more and i went to one catered event that had a few passable dishes.

This last time though, very nice. I still had an aversion to SP so we had tried a few other locals before, they were all packed, we basicly fell on SP as a last resort. The place had a few couples and one old guy. Several, but not all, tBle showed signs of recent popularion. Walking in to a non-packed shop when everyone else was standing room only made me suspect things had not changed, we stayed.

A quick peek at the menu suprisingly showed many desirable items i never had, quite a few in fact. After wrestling the menu for 20 min we decided on a Royal Hot Pot, almond prawns and .the prerequisite - entire reason we went out - partner was craving them, spring rolls.

We didn't wait long but in that time two more couple came in. The lone hostess did a good job balancing time and customers.

Anyhow, the food doesn't take long, the appetizers show and about 10 minutes later (a good time frame) the main.

The almond prawns were an absolute delight, my preferance was with the chili-oil, but the cherry sauce was decent too. My other was of the mind that the spring rolls we a tad heavy on cabbage, i had no such issue.

We both agreed on the hot pot, very good but lacking something small. I repaired mine with chilioil and some nice dark thick soy sauce hiding in a kikoman bottle. In my estimation it made the dish near perfect. The spice was too much for my co-author, the soy was to much of a flavour change to the dish for them... their sugestion is toasted sesame - thinking on it i whole heartedly concur.

Was it perfect, no. It was, however, very good.

I look forward to my next visit, something i find more suprising than anything else about...

Ordered delivery a few weeks ago, but finally getting around to review this spot. We got our food within the timeframe we were quoted, so kudos to that. Portion sizes were large and worth the cost, so cheers to that. Right off the hop we realized we were missing a couple items - not a big deal as it was dinner time and we get mistakes happen. So we called them and the driver came back very quickly with the missing items, so great job on that! Now, on tasting the food... Fried rice was bland, pretty much just white rice with veggies, no real seasoning or flavour and ALL the fried foods (dry ribs, wontons, spring rolls, chicken wings) tasted burnt as if they were fried in old fryer oil and their colouring indicated the same. We quickly called them back and spoke to the manager. They offered a remake which we declined as we were already turned off the food. The manager sent his driver back with a refund. All in all, 3stars due to great customer service. Not so great food, but maybe we just got them on an off day. Will give a second chance at some point and will revise my review...

I was craving some traditional Vietnamese pho after finding this restaurant it said it had Vietnamese food.

I was greeted by the host when I walked in I sat down at a table I already knew what I wanted as I ordered the same thing from every restaurant pho Tia. When she passed me the menu I asked could I just order a full tie she said one minute but she went back to the counter and insisted answering the phone and taking different orders every time someone called on the phone so I sat there for a little bit but I waited patiently. Finally the host arrived I ordered a beef noodle soup it did not come with any basil it sounded like it wasn't a traditional pho. So I proceeded to try it anyways after it had arrived I could tell the broth was very clear and after trying the broth before you even got into the soup it tasted like pure water so I put some salt and pepper into the bowl of soup and put a teaspoon of chili oil and I just could not eat it it just was too watery there's no flavor I was just very unhappy. They have a long ways to go to making a proper traditional...