Vietnamese customers sit at a sidewalk restaurant to eat pho for more than 400,000 VND in Paris

Ninh Phương |

Vietnamese diners were surprised by a rare restaurant serving street food style in Paris, France, with fried pho scoring an absolute score.

A few months ago, Ms. Vu Nguyet Anh, founder of a travel company in Europe, currently living in Strasbourg city (France), accidentally read an introduction about a Vietnamese restaurant in Paris. Immediately, she was strongly attracted by the intimate layout and the menu including many Vietnamese snacks.

She immediately saved the restaurant's address and arranged a time to stop by to try the food when she came to Paris. When she arrived at the restaurant, she immediately had the same feeling as when eating at a Vietnamese sidewalk restaurant.

"From the way the items are arranged, or when the snacks are served on the table, I am extremely excited and excited and feel like I am "visiting home". After I posted the pictures of the restaurant on the page Personally, many friends excitedly commented and expressed surprise when seeing such a close corner of Vietnam right in the heart of bustling Paris," she expressed.

Ms. Anh enjoys a Vietnamese snack shop on a Paris sidewalk. Photo: NVCC
Space decoration and menu. Photo: NVCC
Plastic tables and chairs are placed on the sidewalk and the restaurant menu is handwritten. Photo: NVCC

The restaurant that Ms. Anh visited is called Viet 1331, located in District 13, Paris, and has just opened since the beginning of May. Red plastic tables and blue plastic chairs were arranged by the restaurant and spread out on the sidewalk in front of the door.

The restaurant's snack menu includes many familiar dishes such as roasted duck with garlic, roasted duck with Lang Son honey, mango shake chicken feet, sour spring roll salad, dried beef with mango peanuts, fried fish with mango sauce, fish rolls with tamarind sauce, fried pho. pan... Prices for dishes range from 10-25€ (about 270,000 - 700,000 VND). The dishes are presented on attractive plates with vegetables and dipping sauces.

The restaurant space has many rustic features like a popular restaurant in Vietnam. Photo: NVCC
The restaurant space has many rustic features like a popular restaurant in Vietnam. Photo: NVCC

Ms. Anh commented: "Regarding the food, of course I can't say it tastes too great, but I feel less nostalgic about the taste of Vietnam (laughs). I have to say that it's been a long time since I've eaten spring rolls, so Extremely excited to enjoy it."

Vietnamese diners praise the crispy fried pho, sweet soup, and sour spring roll salad with Vietnamese green apples, which are quite strange to eat.

However, she did not appreciate the chicken pho because the broth was brackish and had an unclear taste of fried onions or garlic, making the overall flavor disjointed.

"We almost left the entire bowl behind," she said.

The menu has many Vietnamese snacks. Photo: Viet 1331
Pan-fried pho. Photo: NVCC
Pan-fried pho. Photo: NVCC

According to Ms. Anh's observations, the restaurant's staff are mostly Vietnamese, from many different regions, young, friendly and cheerful. Even though the restaurant was crowded, the restaurant's staff still enthusiastically joked with her when she ordered or asked to take pictures. They still chatted and asked, "Do you like your food?".

Ms. Anh's snack cost about more than 2 million VND. Currently, the Euro exchange rate is at a very high increase stage. Therefore, a plate of fried pho at Viet 1331 restaurant costs 15€ (about 420,000 VND) while the price of a similar plate of fried pho in Vietnam is only about 70,000 - 100,000 VND.

However, with the same experience as a sidewalk snack shop in Vietnam, Ms. Anh is willing to spend a large amount of money to reduce her nostalgia for her hometown's cuisine.

See more: What do foreign guests say about the difference between Western pho 200,000 VND and Vietnamese pho 40,000 VND?

Ninh Phương
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