Tiệm Cơm Linh Giang 寧江客家飯店 — Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

Disclaimers: This review is a humble opinion made by a guy with no prior expectations and also a chinese food lover.

The food: I know for a fact that chinese food has a lot of oil in it, I did expect my food to be oily, and I'm still surprised by the amount of oil added in each dish (in my case it's the salted chicken, fried chicken and fried intestine). The salted chicken itself is ok-ish, but the price is way higher than any salted chicken i had around here. The whole meal for 2 cost around 500k, which you can comfortably have a whole dinner course at Kowloon right around the corner and still have some chances to spare (not to mention way better food). The only upside is the sauce for the salted chicken, which is nice.

The service: Where do i start? The menu laid on the table is drenched in oil; the menu doesn't mention any rice so it has to be bought separately at an absurd price; the "security" guy demands money for "looking after" your bike; the bill will come AFTER you paid to make sure you will ignore the small errors (which i don't think it's intentional but still it has to be said).

Atmosphere: It's okay, there are outdoor and indoor sitting areas, we sat outside so we couldn't say much, but it was kinda annoying when there were motor bikes going past you constantly while you were trying to enjoy your food.

In conclusion, take this review with a pinch of salt. If you have extra cash to spare and love oily chinese food, then this place might be the place for you, since obviously it's not the place for me...

Locals know the best places.

This Hakka restaurant as far as I can see, offers seating only along a side street. Almost didn't go as it was raining. Yup. Limited seats and not all would be sheltered by awnings. Don't think they take bookings either and understand if it weren't for the rain earlier, it would have been packed. There were five of us and they initially gave us a table meant for four. Eventually added the second table as I guess they knew it won't be packed.

It's a Hakka restaurant. Not a lot of dishes on the menu, maybe 14 or 16. Couldn't tell what the dishes were as the menu was in Vietnamese and Chinese. Anyway our hosts rattled off their order without needing the menu.

Their signature is the salted baked chicken. Very nice! Not too heavily salted, enough to bring out the rich flavor of the chicken. Dipping sauce of mainly salt, pepper, garlic and chili, to which I added loads more garlic.

We also had fried intestines, which were delightfully crunchy and came with its own sweet chili sauce. Had a small plate of yong tau foo, and a hotpot of noodles, vegetables and various tau foo.

Do what the locals do? To add oomph to the hotpot, our hosts added the oily and bloody drippings from the salted backed chicken. And I think some fatty chicken skin. Not complaining! The soup remained...

Went after a Malaysian YouTuber posted about this place. Feel closed to this Hakka place as the family who runs this place are chinese immigrants descendants like myself, I’m guessing 3rd and 4th generation now. They speak fluent Cantonese, forgotten to ask if they speak Hakka.

We had deep fried intestine, sweet and sour pork ribs, salt pepper ribs and ‘stuffed treasures’ (釀三寶）

I especially love the deep fried pork intestine. 釀三寶 not bad but I prefer west Pahang version as there’s where I grew up.. the ribs are good too, typical nanyang style traditional Cantonese food. Modern Chinese nowadays May not appreciate but honestly these dishes bring back lotsa childhood memory. Not easy to find in KL nowadays

Pricing wise, slightly above average if compare to VN street food but still cheaper than...