Review of Mui Ngo Gai Vietnamese restaurant, Vancouver - what does skip the dishes charge restaurants

It rarely changes.
Vietnamese restaurant owners of a certain age in Vancouver have a background story.
Nghi Do, who runs the Mui Ngo Gai restaurant, fled his homeland amid chaos. too-
Common nightmare after the fall of Saigon-
There were 300 people on board and there was no food or water after two days.
Someone died on board and the sanitary conditions were very dirty and they sailed for another five days without food and water.
Do, who studied psychology in Vietnam, came to Canada as a refugee in 1980 and remembers his first day in Vancouver.
The refugees live in the hotel.
He wants to see the city.
He copied the name of the hotel on his hand and went for a walk.
When he walked back in his footsteps, he realized that he was lost.
He showed a lot of people the name of the hotel but they couldn't help him.
He wrote "Vacancies ".
A taxi driver drove him to the police station and he has been panicking because he has no way to pay the taxi driver.
No matter who the taxi driver is, the city thanks you: Instead of asking for the fare, he paid $20 and said "good luck ".
I just love this story.
Once studied psychology in Saigon.
In Vancouver, he worked in a factory that made souvenir totem pole and then went to B. C. I. T.
Learning electronic technology
Somehow, he ended up consulting and managing Vietnamese restaurants, he said.
Mui Ngo Gai is a Canadian restaurant, Do said.
"It's normal, typical Vietnamese food.
"I want to introduce Vietnamese food, the kind we eat at home every day," he said . ".
The name is translated into culantro, the cousin of coriander, with longer edges and jagged shapes.
The restaurant is open from Nanaimo Street.
But moved to the Little Saigon community in Kingsway three years ago;
There are many Vietnamese businesses nearby.
His niece, Le Daon, is a chef and friendly in the restaurant.
She kept the secret of the dishes, but that was not the case, and her uncle would be proud to talk about how the dishes were made.
Great photos of Vietnam on the wall are Yong 'an.
During lunch and dinner, Do was in the restaurant and the regulars told him that the place was like home.
Thank you for your welcome.
You can see and taste the passion of this family in the food.
There are hundreds of foods on the menu, but 15 of them are variations of the Vietnamese soul food pho.
I tried it. I like it.
Delicious broth, rare beef, enough noodles.
Many dishes cost less than $10. Chicken wings ($3.
5 pieces 50)
The cooking is clean and there is no greasy residue.
Steamed pork shrimp dumplings wrapped in banana leaves (
$7 for 10 pieces)
Delicate translucent.
I have had a lot of green papaya salad in Thailand recently with high expectations.
I am not disappointed here.
This is the recipe for Do, and he says it's a delicate balance to make the seasoning just right.
I'm also a fan of Vietnamese barbecue.
A dish, roast pork on skewers, shrimp on sugar cane and a bundle of delicate rice noodles ($11. 45).
What's on the menu?
"I always like chicken," he said . "
His favorite is the lemon grass chicken, where the pepper hisses on the hot iron plate. “It’s very hot.
"When it goes from the kitchen to the table, it becomes 'Shhhhhh, '" he said '. ".
He also recommended the Mekong Delta soup.
It has a large soup base and he is surprised by how much customers like it.
There are basa, shrimp, squid, pork, eggplant, leeks, fish puree and noodles.
It's a meal for $8.
There are many competitive Vietnamese restaurants in Little Saigon in Vancouver.
Mui Ngo Gai is definitely one of the better NGOs.
Meijie organization cover, 2052 pinyue (at Victoria). 604-876-8885. .
Open 7 days a week, 11 to midnight.
The restaurant was visited anonymously, as was the telephone interview.
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