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Green Lemongrass serves authentic Vietnamese cuisine in a family friendly atmosphere. The menu includes traditional dishes from every region of Vietnam. Green Lemongrass also offers a $5 breakfast menu featuring street food inspired dishes.
Green Lemongrass offers more than just the regular Vietnamese beef noodle soup. There is a section in the menu on regional specialties. I enjoyed the braised duck noodle soup very much. The large pieces of duck thigh and drumstick were tender and full of good flavours. Service was good; the female server we had was very friendly and helpful in answering questions about some of the ingredients. We had an enjoyable lunch and will definitely recommend this place.
I have been wanting to try this place for a while and I had the pleasure of coming here for lunch today. The restaurant has plenty of parking in a lot outside or on Kingsway so long as its not rush hour. Inside its very clean and well decorated for a Vietnamese restaurant especially in East Van (or at least the ones I visit).
The menu is extensive and has lots of pictures if you are undecided. Interestingly, the food actually looks exactly like the photos.
I ordered pho with rare round beef and brisket and an order of spring rolls. The spring rolls are the type with the roughage around them which I like. They were hot and very tasty. The pho came with the usual accompaniment of bean sprouts and limes. But they also included Thai chilies and sawtooth; the latter is rare to see being included. The pho was one of the better bowls I have had. The meat was tender and the broth was bustling with flavour including subtle hints of cinnamon and allspice. They also included a generous amount of cilantro in the bowl so combined with the sawtooth, this is a great bowl for cilantro lovers and had a very "fresh" taste.
Recommended and I will definitely come back when I get pho cravings. Next time I want to try their fruit shakes.
Checked out Green Lemongrass today for breakfast, we got there @ 9.45 am and were the first ones there. It seems they open from 9 am to 11 pm daily. That's dedication to providing good eats. By 10.30 am the restaurant was 3/4 full. As I've read and heard so much about their $5 breakfast menu, we ordered 2 of their bot chien which is a plate of pan fried rice/flour cakes with eggs, onions and came with a unique and tasty dipping sauce. This is something I feel I can eat every morning! I absolutely love this!! We had to order a second one as we were fighting for the last piece. The Phnom Penh roll was good but I'm not a huge fan of asian sausages so it did not quite do it for me. Their bake pork and shrimp cake that came wrapped in banana leaf was delicious, very unique and I would definitely order it again. I do believe dried shrimp can be an acquired taste but after one piece, I acquired it easily and ate most of it. As I am also a fan of Vietnaese dried noodles, I ordered the dried noodles with seafood and loved it. They also served milk shakes and I had the jackfruit shake which was yummy but too filling for me but as my eyes are greedy, I wanted everything in sight. I hope to return again soon as this is definitely now one of my favourite Vietnamese restaurants in Vancouver. I hope to try their standard dishes next time like Pho, lemon grass chicken and spicy soup noodles.
A few of us primed our stomachs here before some heavy drinking later so naturally some comfort and filling food was needed. We tried the Westminster Hwy location before but the grand opening sign drew us in.
Very typical look with almost what seems to be a mish mash of decor accessories. It's not very intrusive but not particularly appealing either.
Our friend went with the pho dac biet and my gf and I shared the lemongrass chicken on rice and all of us split the spring rolls. Nicely done chicken chop with the skin on, though the grilled flavour overpowered the very subtle lemongrass taste. It came with a nice and cleansing broth to wash it down. Spring rolls were good as was the reported bowl of pho. Portions are a smidge smaller but prices coincide with their sizes.
Service was surprisingly attentive and timely, a somewhat unusual find at any asian outfit, so extra marks given.
Good appeal, good food and even good service. No reason why I wouldn't come back.
A little background, I'm a Vietnamese guy, my family and I eat at Song Huong and Hai Phong regularly, both are solid restaurants with similar qualities; food is varied and good, service is generally fast and cooking times are fast, prices cheap.
Now and again you need a change, so the whole family including parents, brother and his family went to Lemongrass on Kingsway. The decor is typical, the service friendly, we ordered 5 dishes varying from Com Suon (Rice and Pork cutlet) to Banh Xeo (Vietnamese pancake with seafood inside), beers and a few other drinks.
This was on Friday night and it was quite busy.
The food was excellent, take great home-made style vietnamese food and stick it into a restaurant, i was quite surprised by this. Here's the big "however"...the time it took for us to get our meals are was REALLY long, it took at least 30 mins for the main dishes to trickle in, 45 mins by the time the last person got her dish.
You might think, oh it's just a one-off, i really hope so - my dad went with a friend last week when the restaurant was almost empty and it still took 30 mins.
So just a heads up, give it a try but don't come starving like we did otherwise you won't have a chance to enjoy some above par vietnamese food.
An uncle of mine introduced me to this restaurant as he said this is something different. When I checked out the menu, he wasn't kidding. There is a selection of pho noodles as well as the other familiar Vietnamese dishes such as spring rolls and salad rolls. However, they have some interesting entree selection as well.
I sticked with the usual special pho noodles (which always means got everything in there), but we also ordered the spring roll, their spicy and sour soup noodle (sorry forgot the name). We also ordered their stir fried lemon grass chicken pot and stir fried green beans.
I loved what they did with the spring rolls, the wrapping is the true rice wrappings, rather than the chinese ones. Also their pho and other soup noodle are nicely flavoured. As for their other entree dishes, you sort of can tell they are freshly made as well.
Service was attentive and friendly. Even though the place started to be busy at times, they still carry out their request efficiently and with a friendly manner.
As for the ambience, it is actually very clean and with nice decorations. Maybe not the most romantic place, but still it is very comfortable to enjoy some good food with friends
Two of us ate lunch at this fairly new addition the the plentiful and competitive Kingsway Vietnamese offering - good food, great Cha gio, a better than usual range of Pho, Hieu Tieu and congees, simple rice and noodle dishes plus a number of more expensive "specials". Simple but good desserts. Food was tasty, well presented and good, service pleasant and prompt, and the restaurant and washrooms spotlessly clean. A good experience until we both got a major MSG "hit" half an hour after eating, a shame and will be the only reason we won't return.
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