DE VIET KITCHEN — Restaurant in Houston

This place is seriously good, care about what they do and their customers. Their salted egg spongecake is probably the best I have had. The spongecake is very eggy, soft, fluffy and remains so in the fridge for ~ 3 or more days - I was surprised I didn't need to warm it up from the fridge at all. Salted egg spongecakes tend to be dry in most places but not this one. Their sauce is also soooo good and I wish there was more of it on the cake Their buns are great. Very fluffy, slightly sweet outside, tasty and good ratio of fillings for the savory ones. If you dont like the yeast smell in bao buns then I can't recall smelling it so that's good. Their durian buns are so, so good though. They are not too sweet, you can smell and taste the durian but it's not overpowering. If you like strong durian taste like my family then it's light, but for me that's perfect. Their dough is even better than the savory ones, like it's so fluffy and nearly cakey without being dry. Their dough and pastry are serious good across the board. I also love, love their pate chaud, which are light, flaky, holds their crisp with a really nice peppery chunky meat pate/gravy like fillings. They are soo, sooo good. I don't like big doughy heavy pate chaud and these are perfect. Their sticky rice I think is only available on Friday has 2 or 3 options and they are also really good. The sauces that go with them are so, so tasty. I refrigerated the chicken intestine and unlaid eggs and the eggs + sticky rice remain great, the intestine was a bit drier and chewier than what I like but I also fridged and microwaved them up pretty hard. Overall highly...

Bánh Tét [delicious steamed rice cake for Tết celbrations (Viet Lunar New Year) with savory stuffings of pork, green bean paste & lotus seeds] - Being a loyal client who knows De Viet only use high quality ingredients for their foods, we purchased 15 rolls ($24 ea) for ourselves (2) and gifts to family & friends for Tết Giáp Thìn (Dragon New Year 2024). Everyone complimented that these are the BEST Bánh Tét EVER !!! And much tastier than the ALL the bánh tét (cylindrical shaped) & bánh chưng (square-shaped) sold from Houston Viet stores, churches & pagodas for Tết. We even wished to buy a couple more yesterday for a friend going home to California but De Viet was fully...

Always wanted to try this place for a very long time now since I shop at Viet Hoa all the time. Today we ordered the Banh mi Nem nuong (grilled pork patty with baguette bread), Banh bao thap cam trung muoi (pork egg Bun) and xoi thit xa xiu (sticky rice with BBQ pork). All were so delicious and will come back again! Wished they would put some of their party tray menu on their actual menu so we could try it. Definitely one of my new fave small places to eat!

Update: this is my Fave place for banh mi and Banh bao! Their Banh bao thit xa xiu is the best! Trust me, I'm a big foodie and this place...