Cơm Hến 17 — Restaurant in Hue City

Very busy place mostly because it's cheap and has a lot of seating. Parking directly in front is limited for the amount of people there. You can park motorbikes on the opposite side of the road as well.

It's very noisy there and the shouts to call the food orders. They service fairly quickly.

I ordered Cơm Hến (miniature mussels) which are only found around this region. I didn't even see them in the bowl since they're small to begin with and even smaller when cooked. The other items were sides. Most of the food in Hue is typically bland to begin with. Culturally this region eats bland.

The food isn't bad and it's not spectacular. It's good cheap food. I would give this place 3.5 stars mostly for...

Pretty good and cheap com/bun hen, I'd prefer the bun but I guess it depends on different taste buds tho, there was no really distinctive difference in terms of seasoning for the rest of the dish. I had 3 bowls in a row. Rice comes in either wet or dry form so ask for a dry one to get the clam broth/juice separately. Veggies were fresh and crunchy. The lady even gave me some free extra crispy pork skins when I asked for :D Overall it was still a bit bland to me so I had to add more ruoc (the purple paste) on the table to it. 15K a bowl, can't really complain anything here. You'll also get this view of part...

Clearly states 12k a bowl on the menu. Ordered 2 bowls and lady ask for 30k. Fantastic math skills. I mean ok, it was only a 6k scam and you can laugh at it, but it’s not about the amount, but the dishonesty. It just a bad taste in the mouth. Best to let it go and not argue with these kind of people and move on with life. And it wasn’t even really good.

Good thing I saw the menu or maybe she would ask 100 or 200k or even 400k like they did to another foreign patron. Who knows with these kind of people.

If you’re a foreigner coming here, just keep...