La Saigonnaise — Restaurant in Papeete

We went greeted with a friendly Ia Orana and then she started speaking in french where I apologized saying sorry I can't speak french. So she said oh tourist! We should have turned around at that point and left. We ordered our food and watched 3 other tables come in after us. 1 table was a large party. Everyone there was served before us, and 2 tables finished their food before they brought us our meal. The Pho was absolutely horrible it smelled like wet spoiled cat food. I could not eat it. My husband said his food was okay. Mind you, I thought maybe it was me, so I had my husband try it. He told me not to eat it, it was spoiled! That it was awful. It took over an hour to get our food. When including us, there were 4 people at that time of order. When the other tables came in, there was a total of 12 people. We were getting ready to leave when they brought it out. I would not recommend this place to anyone.

This was totally based on our true experience, not just a judgment that is suggested by the owner. It's nice to see that there is no rebuttal on how you treat tourists. I will add that the owner needs to realize they have an issue since this has happened before. Look at the reviews. We...

horrible service if you’re not a local/regular. it took 1.5 hrs for our food to come and we were blatantly ignored by the waitstaff. they were quick to serve the regulars who came after us and got their food within 15 minutes of being there. the food was decent, but definitely not worth the annoyance and extremely slow pace...

The food is quite disappointing if you've ever had Vietnamese food, I do NOT recommend ordering pho (they didn't even have he fresh herbs! 😔) but the service was very nice and the place was clean and nice. The spring rolls and vermicelli noodles are quite tasty but I do not recommend the...