La Pines Restaurant — Restaurant in Hue City

Com Hen (rice with mussel) is a very unique cuisine of Hue. Com Hen contains rice, boiled mussel, star fruit, fish sauce, cabbage, onion, pepper, peanut, chili, and a variety of herbs. The specialty is all of these elements are cold. When people eat Com Hen, they add all the above ingredients to a bowl, and slowly add boiled mussel broth with chili sauce into the bowl (the broth is the only hot thing in Com Hen). Com Hen has an extremely spicy flavor as such, so gastronomes remember it just after one time enjoying. Bun bo Hue (Hue style beef vermicelli) or more detail, Bun bo gio heo (beef and pig's knuckle vermicelli) is a popular Vietnamese soup vermicelli dish, and one of the most typical foods of Hue, Vietnam. Fine combination of ingredients make the food famous; the broth is prepared by simmering beef and bones for a long period of time, after that a large range of different spices containing lemon grass and chili are added in. Shrimp paste holds no less importance. Hue people usually add thin slices of beef shank, chunks of boiled oxtail, and pig's knuckles or pork into the bowl. It can also contain cubes of maroon brown congealed pig blood, which are good for those suffering from high blood pressure. The specialty is commonly served with a plenty of herbs like sprouts, lime wedges, cilantro sprigs, onions, and sliced banana blossom. Thinly sliced purple cabbage or iceberg lettuces are used in case of lacking in banana blossom. It is highly recommended for tourists to add a few of shrimp paste directly...

I arrive here with my family because our driver recommend us this place. The price of the menu (per person) is around 200000~300000, so we expected to have an special treat as it is quite expensive compared to the standard prices here in Vietnam. We ordered 4 menus, the first plate was a really small soup, so we asked if they could serve us another one for my sister and they told us that if we wanted to have another we have to pay it separate... (for sure it was not mandatory, but it was not a good gesture). The second plate consisted in just two small pork fillets per person, and until we had the third plate we waited more than 20 minutes. The third one was really tasty. Summarising, good quality, service is not according with the price and the size of the plates is...

I would give zero if possible. We came with a group of 8, and the restaurant was half full, by no means busy. They start by trying to scam you by bringing out small little side dishes. Just some peanuts and a tiny bowl of Kim Chi which most restaurants serve as free appetizers. However, this restaurant will charge you for them without telling you. The soup came with a fly, 2 fish dishes and they both came with bonus scales, over cooked meat that tasted like jerky, and to top it all off, 6 of 8 bowls of rice was either dry or burnt. I mean you're an Asian restaurant, how do you screw up rice that badly. The vegetable dish was the only edible thing. There are a million other places you can go for local Vietnamese food. 0/10 never...