Mirada Restaurant — Restaurant in Fountain Valley

I’ve been dining here for 20 years, and I plan to for another 20 (or hopefully more). Their food is Vietnamese comfort home cooking. They have the purple yam soup which isn’t widely available at other establishments. You gotta eat it like us Viets do, which is rice-in-soup. Other dishes I like here are the Ong choy salad with beef, the sweet and sour soup (canh chua), fried fish in the salty curry seasoning, and garlic pea sprouts! I’ve been craving the pea sprouts but noticed not a lot of the Chinese restaurants have it on the menu anymore yet sure enough this place still does. Good ole Mirada. I have to keep supporting this place because I’d be so sad if they close down. Also the free taro che dessert they gave us was delish!

My friends 80-something year old parents like this place along with my mom and some other relatives, that’s gotta say something about their food because you know how picky these Viet OGs are.

They have a credit card minimum like $25 I think...

Family style pure comfort Vietnamese food. Made with love and obvious skill. The Goi Rau Muong Che - morning glory (Ong Choy) salad with beef is finger licking good. We had to order another serving in our party of 6. The pork riblets, pork belly, deep fried tilapia are all also outstanding. The perfect balance of sweet, salty, sour in all my favorite dishes. The ingredients are simple so that the California quality produce can really sing... This is Vietnamese food at its absolute best. Sharing this meal with friends has felt like I'm closer to...

Ordered canh chua and ca kho. These two dishes go hand in hand and are usually ordered together. They brought us the canh chua but gave our ca kho to a different table. Said they didn’t have anymore and we would have to wait 15 minutes for them to make it. They said they didn’t give it to us because the ca kho was fatty and we wouldn’t like it…we were never given the choice. Bad service. Food we did get was ok overall. Canh chua tasted watered down. Bo luc lac and fried tofu were good though so bumped up to 3 stars...