From Time Out Abu Dhabi Eating Out 2010
Regardless of price, this is one of the best Asian restaurants in the capital. A Vietnamese cafeteria at heart, it is usually full to bursting – and for good reason. The noodle soups are excellent and start at around Dhs25. It takes 12 hours to make the broth, the menu boasts excitedly and we believe them – it’s like noodle soup for the soul. The vermicelli salads are likewise superb, but grab some chilli-salted squid and a side-plate of traditional goi (pickled vegetables and peanuts) and just go from there. Inside, the interior is simple, green and buzzing. The waitresses shuffle about with a busy air, ferrying heaving bowls of soup to and fro with balletic grace. The atmosphere is rather chaotic, but that’s what makes it such fun. At lunchtime, enough suits pack the tables to suggest that Hanoi isn’t the well-kept secret you’d imagine it might be; but it is little wonder when two can eat here like Vietnamese emperors for less than Dhs100.
