Amitaba Vegetarian Restaurant — Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

Interior lighting is fantastic. Light brown tables and chairs and floor to lintel glass to two sides of roads made it bright. Corner plot, so two doors, plus another service door. This is rare in this populous city to have a service door for the kitchen supplies without passing by the customers.

Food taste is average. Menu is upscale, means that you can host someone. Seems the restaurant was setup for high end customers but now left with uneducated staff.

BIG negative: this restaurant smells. Heavy smell of food (not fragrance) in blocked air. No ventilation. An ineffective inefficient air-conditioner. Plus a fan is blasting odour air. Very very good place to spread covid. Please please allow air circulation.

No handwash basin except toilet room where you have to go through a dirty screen and get your hands back dirty after washing.

They don't serve drinking water nor tissue papers on table. They serve wet tissue that's not fully helpful unless you remember the area used each time you swipe.

Visa contactless payment stickers they have on the door and at the cashier too but their POS can't read contactless. Wrong use of the branding stickers, lack of literary. You have to input PIN (touch the keypad) and sign two times (touch pen) to...

We came on a relatively cool morning so it was still comfortable! They do have an AC unit here so I'm sure it will still be cool even as temps rise.

Vibe - Pretty and fun and zen. The walls are painted with a sky and landscape scenery. The ceiling at the front of the restaurant has hanging purple flowers. The place is clean and kept neatly.

Food - Delicious and savory flavors! Everything I got was amazing. I'm so happy because I can't get food this good in the US that's vegetarian. There's some out there but it's typically junk food kind of eats.

Nothing was too sweet, which non-vegetarian restaurants usually mistake. I've had sickeningly sweet nuoc mam chay and it was awful but it's good here!

My fave here is the nem nuong :') I'm gonna miss this place...

They do not speak and understand any english. I went there alone and ordered 2 dishes pointing them in the menu. When I finished the first one I waited at least for half an hour completely ignored for the second one, then I stopped a waiter and asked what was happening. He came with the phone and a translator and when he realized that I was waiting for my second dish he gave me the menu again. Where they thinking that I was having a meditation session in their restaurant? The worst...