Dara Vietnamese Restaurant — Restaurant in Chiang Mai Province

NOT AUTHENTIC VIETNAMESE FOOD!!! This restaurant is run by a Thai family. If you're looking for actual Vietnamese food, try somewhere else.

I guess everyone else reviewing has never actually eaten Vietnamese food before? I am sick and took a trek to get a nice hot bowl of pho. The photo on the menu didn't look like pho but I took a chance. I received a bowl of noodles with some random meat (Thai sausage perhaps? Definitely not Vietnamese). The soup was on the side but it was a small portion and tasted sour. Lots of veggies were given. Overall, the dish tasted ok but unfortunately for my stomach, it was not what I was looking for. Huge...

Cute place with a nice backyard. This is not a bad place but it's definitely not vietnamese taste. It's more like a thai restaurant that borrows a few Vietnamese food items. But the execution just does not work.

Rice paper is way too small to make a roll. The water came out cold (it's supposed to be hot) so it took minutes for every sheet to soften up. The pork in the pork and rice was not at all viet in any way. And it was overcooked to cardboard. Spring rolls were a big miss too. Mostly sprouts inside. No meat. No flavour.

Lots of veg with the meal was a nice plus, but other than that, don't have high expectations if you are...

As a frequent traveler to Vietnam, I'm sorry to say that I was a bit disappointed. The food isn't bad, but it gave me little Vietnamese feeling. I hoped to find a bún chả (someone mentioned it in other reviews) but that wasn't available. The service is kind but a little distracted: I asked for water, they brought me a glass with ice but the bottle never came. The waiters were busy with other stuff so I didn't have the chance to ask them again (it was a quick meal though, and it wasn't actually that important). The place and people are nice though and I think I could have been kinda unlucky, but I would not discourage others from...