Vientiane Restaurant

The papaya salad is not good at all. Ordered for delivery and it doesn’t taste fresh. Spent extra $2 for noodles and the noodles are still hard. They give you so little liquid that it’s dry. The taste is also very off, more sour than spicy and I ordered medium spice. I also got the BBQ pork belly here and they give you a okay amount for $14. At the least, they know how to make decent purple sticky rice.

Waited close to an hour for two things; Pho and Kaopia. Took 15 min after being seated to receive our waters. The kaopia was good, but it's kaopia can't really mess that up. The pho on the other hand was disgusting and tasted like old sink water. Nothing even remotely close to tasting like pho, but I guess that's why there's beef paste out on the tables. If you're gonna serve pho, please try to get it to taste like what it's suppose to. I didn't even want to pay for the pho but my significant other was hungry and just decided to eat it. Not coming back.

I order from this restaurant frequently, and love the kapiek noodle soup - very comforting. I typically order the same things; beef brisket (seasoning/portion very good), raw beef laab (I request no tripe) - but they do accommodate to my requests and the quality of the meat is very fresh. Also, pork belly, sausage, steam rolls once in a while. But I like lao style papaya salad, I don't have an issue that it comes in a bag - I just open the bag with scissors and put it in a bowl. Simple. Sticky rice is good portions too.

The place was fairly big. However, I was disappointed in the papaya because as I was eating it, I found a piece of hair in my papaya than i ended up having to throw the whole thing away. Everything else was just fine but I waited forever for my food to be brought out to me for a full blown 30 minutes because it was really busy. I ordered the tri color dessert and they told me they ran out. The pork belly was overcooked and dry. Waitress took forever to come and take our order after they seated us after 10 minutes of sitting down. I received all my food first and my boba tea last which was also dissapointing so thats why I am rating it 3/5 because of the experience i had.

Papaya leaked all over in bag. Ordered pork belly with chinese brocolli - it was put in a styrofoam tray that also leaked everywhere. Greedy with pork protein. It had maybe 5-6 thinly sliced pieces. Charged addtional $3 dollars for rice. Hard pass for $30 of food that leaked everywhere. All the untensils and napkins were useless. Taste 2/5, meh.