Ninh Kieu Restaurant

I came here 2 times. Every time was slow. One time they forgot my order. One time they gave the wrong order.

Service is terrible and food was mediocre. Other people who came before me were served first and the server was super rude

All I have to say about the food is that it is mediocre. This place is no competition with Com Tam Kieu Giang and Thaun Kieu.
Service was terrrrrrible!!!
I was heading to the window to pay and the waiter was standing in front of the register conversing and chilling with the cashier lady. I am standing there with money in my hand for a good 2 minutes before he moved away so I can pay. In those 2 minutes, the waiter was literally gawking at me for god only knows why. I really wanted to say, «Boo! May I help you?» Also, he was cursing up a storm while speaking with the cashier. Extremely rude and unsettling. I could not run out quick enough.
WATCH OUT FOR THE TALL VIETNAMESE WAITER. RUDE to the power of RUDE.

Awesome grilled pork rice: basis of any good Vietnamese restaurant. Buy 1 get 1 Thai tea. Pretty much the best Thai tea I’ve ever had!

This place is still open– when it should be closed. Wanted to give this place a try since the restaurant we originally wanted to eat lunch at closed that day. Not much variety on the menu.
Ordered the chicken com tam, took the first bite… Tasted like the chicken had been washed & marinated with soap then cooked.
Aftertaste still lingered. ⁶⁄₆ people at the table could also taste the soap in the chicken on all the plates.
Appetite, gone.

I drove here specifically for one dish.
Bun Rieu Oe
This particular one is the best I’ve ever had. (3 places I’ve tried)
the snails are more than likely marinaded in some delicious lemongrass type stuff for they are killer.
the pork blood tastes like nothing so don’t freak out!
fresh sides of cabbage and sprouts.
Then there is the delicious crab cake sort of things littered without. egg and crab and shrimp all ground up and cooked in the broth.
yes. I was impressed and if i lived in houston I would eat this on a regular basis. .
I don’t think you can go wrong eating here. especially if you want to experience authenticity over ambiance.
delicious

I want to say this is a fairly new restaurant in Hong Kong Market because I couldn’t find the address. But then again, I rarely go on this side of Hong Kong Market. I usually visit the area in between the market and Teahouse. And that’s about it.
This restaurant is on the opposite side of the food court. It’s a Vietnamese restaurant. There’s no bun thit nuong or phở here. It’s a bit more authentic. Not saying bun thit nuong and phở isn’t authentic by any means. It is. But those dishes are more accepted by Americans. Bun thit nuong = rice and grilled pork; Phở = noodles, beef, and broth. How can you go wrong?
If you want to get a tad more authentic Vietnamese, try this place. My mother, who is the biggest critic of EVERY phở restaurant and refuses to eat anywhere with bun thit nuong… loves this place. Not sure if you’ll like it but you can give it a try. The menu is not in English. So I’ll tell you what I get. Banh Xeo. I LOVE banh xeo. It’s a crêpe filled with shrimp, pork, and bean sprouts. The crêpe itself is made of (according to Wikipedia) rice flour, water and turmeric powder or coconut milk (in the Southern regions). I personally would recommend eating this without the pork because the pork used is fatty pork and I don’t like it. You eat it with lettuce, wrap it up like an eggroll, and dip it in nuoc mam (fish sauce).
My mom gets Bun Rieu Oc/​Cua. This is a soup, definitely not phở. In fact, it makes phở the equivalent of a girly drink. Good bun rieu is HARD to find. The best is always the ones mom makes for herself. My mom loves theirs. What is it? It’s a soup, but more like a stew. It’s got noodles, meat (Oc = snail; Cua = crab), chili power, eggs, crab paste, a whole bunch of stuff. The smell isn’t that great but that’s because of the crab paste and the fish sauce combined.
They also have boba drinks here. A huge menu I might add. Don’t bother. Stick with Teahouse. But you know… it’s all personal taste. Teahouse boba is sweet. Their boba is not.
So if you’re tired of the usual Vietnamese menu because I know I am (most places don’t have what I want, like banh xeo or banh cuon)… branch out a little bit and try something extremely authentic. But remember… Oc = Snail.