CINCO International — Restaurant in South Bend

Oh man what can I say. I like to try a few items for my first time at any restaurant, so I had on this first trip: Thai Iced Tea, Blackened Tilapia Tacos, Pork Egg Roll, and the Siam noodles. The tea was great, not overly sweet like I’ve had at some places, just the right amount. The pork egg roll was so hot, you could tell it was freshly made, not like a lot of places where they’ll make a bunch at once and then hold them cold to reheat when they’re ordered, and it tasted AMAZING, you could tell the ingredients were very fresh. Now the two dishes. The blackened tilapia tacos were amazing. My mouth is still watering thinking about them. The fish was perfectly seasoned and the cabbage and mango on top just really makes the dish POP with flavor. Lastly the Siam noodles. Now when it comes to spice, I’m white white. I love flavor, and can APPRECIATE heat, my body just can’t handle it anymore lol. So I ordered the baby spice level and it was still almost too spicy for me lol. Next time I’ll order the Siam noodles with no spice, because you could tell the Thai sauce it’s made with is very flavorful. If you enjoy HEAT with it, get your spicy level going baby! But if you’re WHITE WHITE like me, go with level zero lol.

I will definitely be back to this place. The person who recommended me was spot on with that recommendation, and I highly recommend that you get it too. The service was impeccable, and the two ladies who helped us were great. I think one (I can’t remember if it’s Bella or Thelma? Maybe Belma?) who was our main server, may be the owner? She was so kind, and very friendly, I can’t see why anyone wouldn’t love her!

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Some of the worst Mexican food I’ve ever had. The chips and salsa were pretty good. Salsa was a little bland but if you put a lot on the chip it was good. Shrimp tacos were pretty decent. It came with a mango salsa which really was just mango slices and salsa. The sauce was not spicy enough and mostly just tasted like mayonnaise. Without the mango, the shrimp tacos would have been flavorless.

The real kicker here was the burrito. ABSOLUTE WORST BURRITO IVE EVER HAD. I didn’t know you could even mess up a burrito. First of all the meat was completely unseasoned. The cheese was cheddar or something definitely not Mexican cheese. It was a good thing our server convinced us to get the fries, because by end of our meal my boyfriend and I were referring to it as the burger wrap. Would’ve been better off grabbing one out of the frozen section at Walmart.

The service was great except our server asked us if we would like chips and salsa (which I said yes). And he said he could bring me guacamole with the meal as well when I mentioned I wanted some to my boyfriend. He didn’t mention it was an extra $3 for each thing. (But he was awesome other than that so it is not a big deal, but seriously who charges for chips and salsa??) Their atmosphere is lame too. And the prices were ones an actually high end restaurant would have so that was no bueno. Anyway, go to Salsa’s instead, they’re way better.

Disclaimer: We did not try the Thai food it may be better because our Thai teas were pretty...

How is this place still in business? This is literally the one of the worst restsraunt experiences I have ever had in my life. The evening starts off with a radiator plugged into a three way socket, pkugged into the wall, fire hazard? They have literally everything you might want, that should be a red flag. Figured I'd try the calimari, almost positive it was pig anus (Google the NPR story about it), no tentacle pieces, and the pieces they did serve us were like tubes cut in half, diameter and thickness were way to big to be any kind of calamari from what ive seen, still ate it, 2/10 would not eat again. I got some nacho supreme, egg combo thing, looked good until, I realized they hid the lack of chess under refried beans that I didn't order. Girlfriend got a burger that tasted like a frozen patty, which the waiter confirmed for us. My grandmother got the taco salad, and said it was good, I don't believe her. Lastly the when we told the waiter the food wasnt good, he said he would take some money off the bill, but apparently forgot to in the two minutes ot took to run my card. Ive included pictures of the calamri/anus, the nacho/egg hybrid and how much food we left. Thanks for reading and dont waste...