House of Vietnam — Restaurant in Göteborgs Stad

People who know me, know that I am a big fan of Vietnamese cuisine. My favourite dish, however, is often not found on menus around Vietnamese restaurants in Sweden (It’s lemongrass tofu, ‘dau hu xao xa ot‘ with some added vegetables). Anyways, I also like decent enough food for a cheap price, and Vietnamhaket seems to deliver that. I have eaten so far at two locations (Saluhallen Briggen and Stampen) and it was pretty much the same, so I assume it’s going to be the same in Nordstan. The menu is quite large with vegan options directly indicated. Yay! And also very trust-inducing. Prices are 120 SEK for all dishes, though the options feel a little bit limited to me. Mainly we see Pho, Summer Rolls and some stir fry, but I am missing more of a saucy stir fry with rice. Give me my rice!

Anyways, one problem is clearly communication to ask for ingredients, but eventually it will all be figured out. We had the person taking our orders just directly call a relative better at Swedish/English to explain the ingredients. No worries here, I like the family business vibe and if anything, it’s charming. But as it turns out, the Pho uses a mushroom broth in the vegan option, which is arguably a weird choice. So we opted for simple stir fry noodles with tofu, summer rolls and fried dumplings, but also tried a sort of rice noodle salad before.

The food itself came quite fast, but the place wasn’t buzzing either. It all looked competent enough, and upon taking the first bites a warming feeling comes into my body. It is pretty alright. The stir fry is very oily, but chewy noodles, great tofu and some crunchy veggies still work as good comfort food.

The sauce is on the sweeter side and does a good job. The deep fried dumplings are filled with some sort of tofu, cabbage and carrot mush, but don’t taste like anything and are rather dry. Not great. The summer rolls are alright, rolled a bit too tightly fit, so the rice paper was already giving up. The filling is an odd choice with iceberg lettuce and avocado, next to cucumber, rice noodles and tofu, but fairly alright. Still, an odd choice. However, the sauce served definitely had fish sauce in it, so I am not sure what’s up with that. Be careful here.

Overall, pretty average experience, but we got a lot of food for a very cheap price, so it’s definitely a place to go back to in case some comfort food is needed. But it’s definitely not a place to impress your loved ones.

Average experience, but the cheap price and large portion size makes up for it. You will get a fair amount of vegan options, good tofu in most of them, but questionable compositions in many as well (avocado, iceberg lettuce and other surprises). Not very authentic and clearly adapted to the Swedish market, still, alright to fill your inner void with greasy...

I keep coming across my next bowl of pho and think this is the best version I’ve had but this truly was that I finished my entire bowl - I wanted to drink the broth! Perfectly cooked al dente thin noodles that it didn’t get soggy in the broth, thin tender and marinated slices of beef, plenty of herbs/peppers and side condiments that you can make your side dip. To me, this was perfect! Not to mention the chef was such a sweet and genuinely endearing person. She was excited to share stories of our heritage and background, it was a very warm experience.

The restaurant itself is very charmingly decorated, tucked away in a quieter street which was a nice relief away from the bustling foot traffic in the main areas. The menu has a few varieties and priced much reasonably than restaurants within those areas. This was a...

Woweee what a delight, another asian place. Our extra bowl had a fly in it so you know these people use whatever protein they got. No snack goes uneaten amiright?

The place itself is as you imagine your taylor swift loving little sister, plain as white bread. Not nasty tho so 3/5.

The food, even though we got some extra protein was actually nice, i had the duck which was sauteed perfectly with just the right amount of crisp. Truly a delight to eat! We added a phō to our meal which was a real bummer, imagine your little sister again but this time eating stringy cheese. Exactly like that, in other words only a phōō would order the phō. Get kalle anka...