Bistro B — Restaurant in Dallas

This is the go-to for asian fusion. They literally have everything and the majority of it is fantastic so I'm using this review to keep up with what I've tried and if I liked it or not.

Be aware that if you are dining in you are expected to flag down servers when you need them and then pay at the cashier when you are done. The service is good with this in mind. This place runs like a well oiled machine and the food is stupid cheap for how tasty it is.

Appetizers: Spring Rolls - Excellent, perfect peanut sauce, huge, great for sharing. Order every time you go. 16 sweet and spicy dumpling. Same as fried dumplings (18) tossed in a sweet and spicy sauce. I’d rather they put the sauce on the side. Wouldn’t order again. Crab Ragoons - incredible and different from other places in a good way. Super light wrapper doesn’t always travel well, so probably best to enjoy onsite unless you’re ok with it being a little soft. Dumplings - comes with 12+ and are excellent, good sauce, large portion. Both fried and steamed are good.

Pho: Good and a good deal, its been a while since I've ordered this so I may need to try it again soon. Buy 2 get 1 free is awesome.

Spicy combination beef pho - very tasty, would absolutely order again.

Spicy lemongrass garlic pork ribs - looks awesome, buddy said ribs were great.

Fried Rice: Doesn't come as a side, must be ordered separately. choice fried rice - meh - pork fried rice comes with little sausages that taste wonky, get something else or be prepared to pick them out.

Vermicelli Shredded pork, egg roll, pork sausage, grilled pork vermicelli - the grilled pork is the best part, but overall the vermicelli is very good. Egg roll is the same egg roll you can get 3 for 1.29.

113 wok tossed beef was pretty good, still think the grilled pork is the best, but wanted something different and was not sad. Would order again.

Noodles: Combo Drunken noodles - FAVORITE right amount of spice, plenty of meat with a good balance of meat/noodles Drunken noodle korean style - very tasty, spicy. On par with 146. Hu Tieu Xao Kieu Singapore - meh - I think singapore was weird with flat noodles, but can't remember exactly. I'm sure it wasn't as good as the drunken noodles. Shaken Beef - FAVORITE - tender meat, excellent noodles Shanghi noodles, not a lot of flavor, just seems likelo mein with chicken. shaken beef is better.

Side of lo mein - you can sub rice for a side of lo mein for a small up charge, but it comes tossed in fish sauce and wasn’t for me.

Entrees: Orange chicken - Hard No - Breading was thick and soggy, chicken is overcooked. Sauce was ok.

262 spicy garlic beef - was ok. Beef was a little tough, didn’t dig the squash as a veggie. Stick with Mongolian next time.

Bahn Mi Sandwiches:

All use soft French rolls with great texture Super cheap, good amount of meat, great flavor. 4.99 each and 1 free if you order 2? Holy cow!

Pork Patty Bahn Mi - awesome

624 pork belly - pork fat was hard to get through on day 2. The sausage is better

625 pork sausage bahn mi - favorite so far.

626 grilled beef bahn mi - great spices on the beef very tasty, a little tough second day

Tacos - Hard No - We ordered 9 different taco flavors between the 6 of us and none of them were noteworthy and they were hard to tell apart in flavor and appearance.

Marketplace: Pork Eggrolls - 3 for 1.20 and they are literally the best eggrolls you have ever had. They are stupid cheap for what they are, order a bunch and bring them to a group gathering and bask in the glory.

Steamed Pork buns - set of 4 and pretty good. Wish they had more filling, but still exactly what I was expecting.

Sausage and fish rolls in rice paper. Was a little weird that they have rolled up crunchy wrapper inside, but overall still pleasing and comes with a good sauce.

Honey comb cake - semi sweet light cake with tapioca starch so it has a chewy texture. It’s not really my thing, but it...

One of my co-workers frequently brings pork egg rolls from this place, and they're easily the tastiest egg rolls I've ever had. I visited the restaurant with high expectations, but I was disappointed in every way. The service was terrible. We didn't have a waiter assigned to our table, so we had to flag someone down for everything. I ordered vegetable egg rolls and General Tso's chicken with white rice. The egg rolls were room temperature and barely crisp. I flagged someone down and asked for a new order of egg rolls. They brought back the same order, including the one I had taken a bite out of, and told me that they had heated them up. I had to explain that my expectation was a fresh order or egg rolls, not the old ones refried. I asked the person to please take the old ones and forget about the egg rolls. When my entree came, the chicken was steaming hot, but the rice was stale and cold. I flagged down another person to discuss the rice. He ended up touching it with his hand to verify that it was in fact cold. My niece also had cold rice and cold broccoli. The broccoli on my plate was also cold, but I didn't say anything about it. I was brought a new plate of rice that was hot but stale. Shortly after the rice, I was brought a fresh order of egg rolls. The person who brought them said, "These are hot and crispy." The vegetable egg rolls are not tasty...no matter their temperature. The General Tso's chicken was not tasty. The restaurant's inability to serve food at the correct temperature did not sit well with me, so I didn't eat it. We sat for more than 20 minutes waiting for someone to come over so that my niece could get a to-go box and we could get our checks. The gentleman who cleans the tables saw us sitting there twirling our thumbs, so he found someone and brought him to our table. It took an additional 15 minutes to get the box and the correct checks. Tonight's experience was a waste of $20. It was also the worst dining experience I...

I’ve been going here since I was a kid with my family. This place has gone downhill throughout the years and many of my fellow Vietnamese family and friends agree. The service is hit or miss. You could get your order taken within 10 or 30. Your food of course, reasonably, is dependent on what you order. Cleanliness? Absolutely no. The amount of roaches I’ve seen slither around, tables that are still sticky under my arms, people using their own utensils to scoop the condiments out the glass jars on the table, and them NOT get cleaned/changed out, it’s horrific. I have never touched anything in those jars after seeing a homeless man eat out of one with his hands. Yesterday however, I had eaten there with my friends and safe to say, this was the last straw. I’ve chalked the multiple times of getting sick off the food due to maybe a different meal or a bad gut day. This just was the straw that broke my back and stomach. It was a legitimate fear of appendicitis: the pain I was going through. Whatever was going on with the garlic spinach or the shaken tofu, never gave me such an issue, until yesterday night. I’ve now recovered and found strength in my limbs to write this. I can’t go back. It breaks my heart, as I love Bistro B. The same place that we wore ao dai to Chinese new year with the red lanterns; beautiful decor. It’s not the same. The food is barely authentic anymore. The thit co chung, a classic Vietnamese favorite: there was legitimate a PILE of pepper. Just pepper. It was inedible, even to my friend who eats EVERYTHING. The meat dry and the eggs just rubber. It’s too popular for my review to mean anything or stray people away, maybe the call of nostalgia will unfortunately bring me back, but genuinely know- there are more authentic places with more cleanliness and less occurrences of death’s door...