Vietnam Gardens — Restaurant in San Antonio

A small restaurant, unassuming in a small corner shopping center, but excellent food at good prices. The food is cooked fresh by the owner, and always delicious. Highlights include:

+crispy Spring Rolls, best enjoyed wrapped in the included lettuce, with a squirt of Chili Paste. It comes with fish sauce, but they'll happily oblige if you ask for other condiments like chili paste. +Chicken Supreme, perhaps a bit too oily, but you can order it with "light oil" and it's perfection. This has a strong flavor, with a good balance of noodles and chicken, mixed with fried egg and some vegetables. Even comes with a small side of rice. +Phở with your choice of Brisket, chicken, beef, or meatballs. The brisket is my favorite. Lots of broth in this one, so if you finish the noodles and meat before you finish the broth, take it home and make your own ramen with it. +Jasmine Tea, imported from China. They make it a little too sweet for my taste, but that's probably not a problem for most Texans. I even bought a box of the tea bags to make my own at home.

They also have lunch combos/deals, though I haven't tried those, I usually come at dinner time. I've been coming here for years, and the food has maintained the same great quality for all that time. One of my favorite restaurants, I always look...

We ordered red curry and Vietnamese spring rolls yesterday and for the first time ever we actually threw away the curry after tasting, it was that bad. Being a frequent eater of curry and a maker (we make homemade curry at least once a week) I am pretty experienced in a variety of ways to make it. The menu said coconut milk based however there was none present in this curry. What it looked like was that they ran out of the coconut milk or decided to go cheap and used corn starch and water as the base, added a few spices to make it really hot and forgot the salt. Most Togo coconut based curries come in a quart container with a lid as they are very liquid. This one came (as did spring rolls) in cheap Togo containers with their tabs already broken. I thought the curry would spill on the way home for sure but nothing did though as the cornstarch sauce was so thick and globby that it barely moved. Spring rolls looked really nice and I loved that they had cilantro in them along with lettuce but the insides were very bitter. Not sure what else besides the meat and carrots was in there to cause that but no one in the family was a fan. Sad cause we are spring roll fanatics. First and last...

I decided to try it out because i love Vietnamese food, i ordered the chicken mushroom and the general tso chicken with spring rolls and egg drop soups all to go. 22 $ total and it was the HUGEST RIP OFF EVER! First of all my chicken musroom had 3 pieces of chicken and it was all sauce and the sauce was disgusting! Fried rice? Psh that was not fried rice. The general tso chicken was from the dinner special and the waiter said it was supposed to have "more" food. Had like 5 pieces of meat.. My spring rolls smell like wet paint, the egg drop soup was a RIP OFF it had like 5 sips and I had to pay extra for the crunchy things to put my soups. For the price was a rip off and the quality is horrible, save your money DO NOT come here, theres a better place very close called on 410 near jackson keller called KAI sushi and that place is AMAZING for the same price. I seriously almost drove back to demand my money back but instead i'll never go back and inform others to never...