Phở Định Chay — Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

I decided to eat at this establishment twice during my stay. During my initial visit I was able to vaguely able to communicate enough to ask what their recommendations are to which they pointed to the front of the menu. The 6-dishes on the front are what they mentioned in their own words as their staple menu items.

They are helpful and depending on whom you speak to will almost always greet you with a smile.

WIFI There is Wifi, unfortunately, forgot to conduct a speed test.

LOCATION An excellent location makes it very convenient to stop in for a bite. This is why I decided to try this place twice; especially after eating at Mani and having a not-so-good experience.

COSTS 1st Day Crispy Rice = 59,000 Water Spinach with garlic = 39,000 Total = 98,000 vnd Converted to usd = $4.30 usd

2nd Day Braised Tofu = 49,000 Crispy Rice = 59,000 Total = 108,000 vnd Converted to usd = $4.74 usd

FOOD Although, it wasn’t necessarily what I wanted I did order the crispy fried rice from the front of the menu; along with broccoli and garlic. The rice did not look exactly like the picture; which had more blue than black, but it was okay as I preferred it more crunchy (burnt).

As with most places in Asia they did arrive at different times; which is typical and okay.

The second time I decided to order I re-ordered the crispy fried rice and also ordered the very bland braised tofu.

As you can see from the images, there was no consistency between the crisp rice ordered from one day to the following. As far as the other two dishes, I would strongly not recommend.

Words of Caution: The staff does not speak English very well. So be prepared to use body language to assist during your magical food journey.

Also, there is sitting in the back, just like the image on Google, but you will need to request to be seated there.

Lastly, be extremely careful as the food arriving at your table may be extremely hot (temperature-wise).

Although not consistent, it was given a four-star, because of the location and being an affordable option.

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We went in this restaurant because of the good reviews we saw on google and because we are vegan and we wanted to test it in this place.

We have decided to order fried rice with pineapple, fried spring rolls and tofu skin fried. Tofu skin fried was quiet good,nothing to say about it. For spring rolls and fried rice, we didn't find it as good as other restaurants we went in Vietnam during our trip.

And the last but not the least, we asked for tissue because we had nothing on the table, and the waiter gave us wet tissues without saying it was 3000 dongs for it. As you can imagine, it is not for what it worths but we didn't appreciate the way he did it. And when I asked it wasn't what we wanted and that he didn't mention it wasn't free, he «apologize» and went to the counter with the smile and laugh with his colleague. Not professional at all.

So we appreciate to support good initiative to develop veganism everywhere, but when we feel something bad somewhere, we let other people know not to...

Worse experience ever tonight! The team changed, the menu changed and the dishes are ridiculously small and uncooked. We used to love this place, their little vegan dishes were fragrant and packed with fresh veggies. We ordered the curry (half of a little bowl came with huge chunks of carrots and some fake mock tofu that was bright orange with a taste of a sponge); then they brought our second dish which was supposed to be fresh braised tofu, they brought again a small bowl of rice covered with mini pieces of silk tofu in some industrial orange sauce.

Also during the dinner, a man came and sat down at a table, he was smoking in the restaurant and playing loud videos on his phone with the staff bringing him beers.

We are so so disappointed to have lost the original vibe of this restaurant and strongly NOT...