Restaurant: Sáu Can Tho Vietnamese Kitchen [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Location: 8450 Garvey Ave #103, Rosemead, CA 91770. (626) 307-8868
Date: January 21, 2024
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Rating: Excellent (and so full)!
Every November/December my Hedonist club goes to this awesome SGV Vietnamese place — which used to be named Phong Dinh and is now Sáu Can Tho. Many previous meals have been “helluva epic” but not so much this time.
The new logo.
Shrimp chicken salad. decent.
Catfish. Less dry than usual because they were a bit smaller.
Condiments for the fish.
Boar ribs — tasty but INCREDIBLY tough.
Coconut snails. Great as usual.
Mushy disgusting half gold garlic shrimp. Tasted like they were cooked dead.
Cold bbq quail. Not very good.
Murky duck soup. Hmm. not really my taste. Yarom shot the duck.
Goat curry. Great!
Bread.
Mushy garlic rack of lamb. Taste was decent. Texture sucked.
Pandan jelly. I really enjoy these.
Pistachio and Choco-mole gelato.
Worst dinner we have ever had here. Many fewer dishes and half of them were blah.
I don’t know what happened. Normally this place is great. Part of it is scaled back and haphazard ordering. Part of it was just kitchen laziness or something as it seemed like everything had been cooked hours before and re-heated. One of the worst Sunday/SGV dinners I’ve done in a long time. Still a few good dishes, however (like the fish and snails).
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