Viet Express

i havent really tried many vietnamese restaurants around singapore. the only other one was Pho 99 which was not bad (: Viet Express is located quite nearby and it's even nicer! (:

we were really starving by the time we reached the restaurant, so everything on the menu looked good! :D and tasted good (okay it was REALLY good, not just because we were hungry k). of course, like i always say, it will never match up to the food we ate in vietnam (haha i bet my dearest bestie will turn her nose up at the standard of food), but the entire restaurant is run by vietnamese people, so i would suppose that aside from the lack of authentic ingredients which can't be helped, the food was goooooood! (: the fresh vietnamese spring rolls ($8 for four) were refreshingly tasty, and came with an interesting peanut paste sauce with chopped peanuts. the combination was one which i've never tried before and is pretty interesting!

the other appetizer we got was the green papaya salad with prawn and pork ($10) which is really two thumbs up! :D i loved the slightly raw papaya strips with the fresh prawns and other veggies, and the sweet chili sauce went perfectly with this dish.

there was a whole variety of noodles to chose from in this restaurant! i ate the sliced beef and beef ball ($11) noodle, a traditional favourite xD the soup here is especially fragrant, i would say its the closest i've gotten so far to the pho i had in vietnam (: i love how vietnamese soup is not just savoury, but also slightly sweet, such a nice twist to an otherwise potentially bland dish. and the rice noodles were slurpily smooth heehee. nice! the reason why i said viet express is nicer than pho 99 is because the soup is tastier, slightly more full-bodied and flavourful

zhen ate the sliced beef glass noodle ($11), which is basically the glass noodle version of mine. haha actually it's pretty similar! i enjoyed a bit of the glass noodle as well cos there were a few strands in my bowl heehee xD

mummy chose the special vietnamese kuay teow with prawn and pork ($11) which was slightly different from ours! as in the soup was different. i don't really know how to describe it. it was nice as well, but not the typical pho kind of soup.

yi deviated from the norm of choosing noodles and got the rice with special marinated chicken ($12). i didn't try the chicken, but the rice was pretty fragrant (:

the drinks were nice too! (: i loved the soursop fruit shake ($3.50)!!! :D awesome stuff. it was chock full of the fruit and tasted wonderful.

Viet Express

3 Pickering Stree #01-34

China Square Central - Nankin Row

Tel.: +65 6536 9914

Mon-Sat: 11.30am-3pm

6pm-10pm