Ara Vietnamese Noodles — Restaurant in Petaling Jaya

Andrew and Ah Yim are the sweetest couple. Andrew, a Malaysian, met his wife, Ah Yim, while traveling for work in Vietnam. Pre-covid, obvi.

Everyone raves about the pho, which is the real deal. They boil the bones & broth for 4 hours and then leave it to steep overnight, for the maximum extraction of nutrients and flavor. I’ll be honest, I’m a strict vegetarian, which is the real reason I showed up at their door.

I literally shoveled the food into my mouth. I ate rice vermicelli noodles with loads of fresh basil, mint, carrots, and other veggies. It is served with nước chấm, an umbrella term for vietnamese sauces. I avoid fish sauce, so they substituted a soy sauce with a zest of spice and sweetness. It is also served with two fried vegetable spring rolls.

Vietnam is the world’s second-largest exporter of coffee, so I had to order the iced vietnamese drip coffee, served in a cute contraption, with a layer of sweetened condensed milk. Beware that vietnamese coffee has twice the caffeine as your typical cup o joe.

Ah Yim was sweet enough to package a beef pho for my true love so I could bring him home dinner. I will...

Was just looking online for cheap and value oriented meals in PJ and stumbled upon this. Opted to give it a go and I can’t believe I only tried this place now. Ara damansara residents you lucky folks.

Solid and decent homey Vietnamese restaurant with simple and clean interior and seating.

Got the beef stew noodles and spicy braised chicken rice. Beef stew is super beefy with balanced flavors of Vietnamese style herbs and spices, kind of like an amped up beef ABC soup per say. I would order again with an additional remark of adding more thai basil if possible. Chicken was moist and succulent, however wished there was some sort of gravy or braised sauce that’s from the chicken to pair with white rice.

The best item from this meal for me however was the baguette with a bowl of pure braised beef gravy/liquid. Simple fresh clean tasting baguette with soft insides and slight crisp on the outside, pairing with the beef gravy dip however makes this a super moreish and amazing snack. I actually ordered another baguette as it was not enough for me and my brother.

Will definitely come again to try other items...

Affordable Neighborhood Vietnamese Restaurant in PJ!

Reached here around 7pm in Saturday, full of customer queuing, very good business.

They got very small table, not so good if you got big group of friend, maximum can seat up to 5 per table.

Fried Spring Roll is addicted & very crunchy with the sauce. While the fresh spring roll is a little bit normal.

Pork Noodle is nice with a lots of ingredient such as vege, pork lard, small pcs of pork with very nice texture & option to choose different type of noodle. Soup is great!

Beef Noodle have different soup base & the beef is very generous & good texture together with the pho & the mint leaf.

The BBQ Pork Rice may not look attractive but the BBQ Pork is very strong in flavour together with the rice with some gravy & a fried egg. Very good combination.

The BBQ Pork Skewers is really good but need to wait for at least 15 min.

They accept Duit Now for all type of ewallet &...