Dinh Thieng

I come from a Vietnamese household so we all are familiar with the old school Vietnamese parents inviting their friends over to their house for some good ol’ Vietnamese karaōke, some of their favorite beers (typically it’s Heineken) and you’ve got people eating hot pot (the Vietnamese version of «Shabu Shabu» which is called «Lau»).
This place is not a typical sit down restaurant since they allow customers to go on stage to sing karaōke (imagine drunk Vietnamese folks singing their lungs out).
For me, it was entertaining. I’ve never been to Vietnam before but this is what I envision their «Quan Nhau’s» (Vietnamese hangout place to drink beer) would be like.
I thought it was pretty cool that they had buckets for their customers to hold their beers in!
I found this spot because my go to hot pot spot was closed early for a party and I hit up Unilocal and uncovered a new spot! I think I’ll take some non-​Vietnamese friends here next time and have them experience the vibe here because it was pretty different. In a cool way!

Staff is really pushy for you to order and stand over your shoulder every time you open a menu. Food is okay

This is the only place I go to get my Vietnamese nhau (drinking) food so when a couple of friends wanted to get together on a Tuesday night, this is where we went to pick up to-​go orders. They close at midnight so there was plenty of time for us to get there.
They have a buy 3, get 1 free deal. This is what we got:
Be Thui (Vietnamese roast veal) ³⁄₅ — The dish itself was very good, but I felt like they skimped out on the be thui. It consisted mostly of onions and not enough meat.
2 orders of Tiet Canh (duck’s blood) ⁵⁄₅ — This can be scary for some people but I find this dish delicious. You would think it may taste or smell bad, but it’s either. It comes with different kinds of herbs and the blood itself is mixed with peanuts and little bits of cooked meat and topped with intestine. How you eat it is lay down a bed of your choice of herbs, scoop some of the duck’s blood on top, squeeze some lime, and devour it! You can also place all that on top of the banh trang (it’s like a Vietnamese cracker) and eat it with that. Scrumptious!
Grilled Cockle (so long huyet) ⁴⁄₅ — They give you quite a handful and these things are HUGE.
We ordered when we got there and we barely waited 15 minutes before we got our food. Quick service!
If you choose to dine in, they have 2 parts to the restaurant. One is a little more «family style» where it’s quiet and the other half is more of a drinking environment with big-​screen TV’s, karaōke system, loud music, etc.
Come here for all your drinking food needs! You won’t be disappointed.

Food was nice and hot very tasty. Me and my wife had a good time here and will come back

Terrible service and food. The girl gave us recommendation for the oyster and it was horrible. I think nobody order that dish for days so they want us to order… feelings dumb to myself. And then my boyfriend told her to bring the oyster back to their kitchen, the lady cleaned our Banh Da too

It’s flu season.
Every time I’m sick or my mom is sick, we get the chao long (intestine congee) from this place and it’s always delicious! The intestines and blood jello are never gamey. They load the dish with onions and ginger, and include a side of bean sprouts, a wedge of lemon and garlic chili paste – everything you need to battle the bug all in one convenient dish to go.

This place is right across the street from where I live. I came here twice and the food was pretty darn good to my surprise. If you like to «nhau» and sing karaōke and enjoy cheap beer and good food, this is the place for you. I only come here for food and just because its close by home. Service is not that great. Décor is quite ghetto. But 3 get 4^th one free on the menu. Awesome deal!

Happy hour drink special till 6pm (check out the signs on building it rocks) with food orders. This time went with Long Heo, She called it «saw» it looks like a large clam, beef filet mingon with peppercorn garlic sauce, and clam black bean sauce.(this is the buy 3 get 1 free food deal). Other exotic foods including Vit Lon, (Philipino Bolut)
Atmosphere is more of a drinking type place with a good variety of Vietnamese food, numerous mid size flat panels with sports. 1^st timers, I recommend bringing a vietnamese speaker. The food overall is not broad spectrum, I would call it «Adventuresome Foodie» which I am. Good for date or families: Not so much. Guys drink, eat, watch TV: Yes. Credit card or Cash. Close to 22 Fwy and Euclid.

There’s a deal going on right now. Buy three dishes, get the fourth one for free. Awesome deal for drinking food! We ordered 8 dishes, but I only liked one or two dishes out of the eight.
FRIED RICE (com chien): I don’t typically eat fried rice at a drinking place, but this wasn’t bad. Moist, soft, & flavorful.
ESCARGOT W/​COCONUT SAUCE (oc len sau dua): slimy & coconuty? haha either you like it or you don’t. Not too shabby.
DUCK BLOOD W/​CRACKERS (tiet canh vit): raw duck blood & meat. Not my cup of tea. tasted bland to me.
MANGO SALAD (goi): love mango in my salad.
GRILLED COCKLES (xo huyet nuong): mediocre. a little dry & burnt.
FRIED QUAIL (chim quay): dry & burnt.
FRIED CHICKEN: dry & burnt & poor presentation. Unsure if it was even chicken.
I was also disappointed in their sauce selections. Tamarind sauce was weak, fish sauce tasted blah & no sauce for the fried chicken. What happens to the sweet & sour sauce? Besides the fried rice, all the portions are quite small. We did take-​outs, so I can’t say much about the restaurant. But rumors have it, you can smoke here! Gross!

This is one of the OG places to eat in bolsa. The foods here are delicious and can be very unique because they have dishes from goat, deer, duck blood, etc. If anyone who never come here before, you need someone who can speak Vietnamese and help you decided on what to order. The crowed can be very old men to very thuggish people. The waitress are friendly but don’t speak that much english. I love eating here and most of the people that I take here enjoy it alot too. If you never experience «nhau» food then you have to try it here. My favorite place to eat w/​my friends!

First things first. This is a Restaurant that allows smoking! That is unacceptable. Last I checked, this was not a Vietnamese «Café».
I’ve been driving by it for a few years, so I decided to stop by one evening. They handed me a Vietnamese only menu, but I then requested English, and they handed me an English menu, only it had half the items of the Vietnamese menu. It’s annoying when restaurants do this. After scanning menu, I ordered French Steak cubes with red rice. When it arrived, the Beef Cubes were RAW inside, completely undercooked. I guess the cook could not tell the difference between rare and RAW. I could have requested to have it recooked, but at that point, I just wanted to leave due to the cigarette smoke. Will not be returning to this establishment.
Yes, there are a few TVs around and they serve beer. However, that does not excuse their failure to cook beef properly or that they allow smoking inside the restaurant. Completely inexcusable.

older mellow crowd. but food is good

this place is pretty good man.
went here with a few friends to «nhau» (vietnamese for eating with lots of drinking). The place was packed for a thursday night and we were the only young people there (young as in mid 20’s lol). The rest of the crowd looked above 30. But the environment was cool, darker ambience, karaōke machine playing with viet music, lots of flat-​screen TV’s, and it was very loud because of the music. The waitresses were attentive and helped us pick out the food.
I like how the nhau foods are buy 3 items and get the 4^th free.
We had the long heo (pig intestine), cockles, bo chanh tai (rare beef with lemon), bo luc lac (beef cubes), and de suong (sauteed goat).
I personally liked the long heo the most, but beware it’s not for everybody since it’s basically the pig’s stomach, intestine, blood cubes, and blood intestines. All the dishes were good except I didn’t like the cockles. Didn’t like it because it was weird to me and um yeah never had it before. Maybe others might like it.
The real reason behind nhau-​ing is the beers man. They don’t have a big selection but it’s cool, they have the regular favorites. As in Heineken and Coronas lol. They have a few domestic too. The beers are $ 2.25!!! That’s even better than happy hour yo. They leave a bucket of beer under your table and the waitress would come and pop one open for you once she sees you’re running dry. Now that’s customer service.
Overall, good nhau place. Will come back to try the other dishes.

Wow, I can’t believe someone thought this place sucks? WTF. It was one of the best meals I’ve had in such a long time, and for free! (our friend paid) Let’s see… we got the Deer ribs, wild boar, fish sauce chicken wings, fried quail, fried frog legs, seafood hotpot, a delicious tofu dish with thousand year old eggs, and grilled cockle. I think that’s everything? I’m probably forgetting things– oh, grilled beef and garlic, as well as two orders of balut (the undeveloped duck fetus you eat. Whole.) Yeah, they have that here. It’s really tasty, don’t be scared! The herbs they give you with it really bring out great flavors in something that one would think would taste like, well, duck fetus.
The winning dish in my opinion was the fried quail. The flavors in all the dishes are incredible, but they worked especially well here. The grilled cockles were next up, that once dipped into the lime, salt, and pepper sauce, were other-​worldly. The hot pot came with mussels, halibut, jellyfish, shrimp, greens, phở noodles, squid, and more. I will post pictures very soon, so get ready!
I really wish I lived closer to this place, I would definitely come back for drunken vietnamese karaōke at night! Thank god we were with our Vietnamese friend so he could order all the «good stuff»… the boring things were in english– !!!

wow, this place sucks.
I’d avoid it like the plague even if it was the last restaurant on this earth.
If i don’t die from starvation, i would died from dehydration because their Com Chien Ga Roti (rotisserie chicken) dish must be coated and fried in salt. (not literally, but close enough!)
Not only was it «coated in salt,» i think they may have abused the chicken before they served it. Why you ask? It came out black and burnt. NO LIE. (and they actually had the BALLS to serve it like this!)
In short: Their food sucks. Their presentation blows. Their service needs to be worked on. And they should maybe just stick to serving booze only…
When all else fails, who can go wrong booze? hahahhaha

a brazilian an italian and a chinaman walk into a bar…
no, this is not a joke, and no, theres nothing funny here…
this is serious, real shit.
this place serves straight up og «quan nhau» bar/​pub food. or at least i think it does cuz i’m just a chinaman… the menu is in vietnamese, but there is a paper take out menu with some english translations. however, the problem is, its all the stuff you don’t want to order anyway.
luckily we had some locals with us so we got the following:
fried chicken wings, salty and sweet with nuoc mam fish sauce. crisp succulent things…
another specialty is the fried pork leg/​ankle/​foot. its the thickness of a louisville slugger cut into cross sections like a damien hirst sculpture. striations of fat and flesh undulate from piece to piece. all clothed with an amazing crackly skin… you dip this is in a sweet and sour sauce. it all goes down just right with your 2 dollar corona’s.
we got a dish of the ducks blood and the goats blood. i’m not an expert in the coagulated culinary arts but if i had to choose i would say the ducks blood is a bit tastier… slightly darker in color and deeper in taste… you basically scoop some into your bowl, tear up some ngo gai sawtooth herb and other herbal goodies, a squeeze of lemon and a spoonfull of fish sauce and you eat that bad boy with some rice cracker. its good shit but takes a little bit of mental readjustment for the uninitiated…
we also got some grilled cockles that had sriracha squirted inside and some other stuff. similar to the cockles you find in vietnam and thailand but bigger. if you’ve had the blood cockles they kinda taste like that…
the fried frogs leg were tasty, battered and fried then dipped into a ketchup and mayo. sort of like a 20 piece order of bone-​in kermit mcnuggets.
we also got raw beef salad and a duck salad.
all the food was freaking good and ended up costing about 20 bux a person with a couple beers each…
the menu goes much deeper with shrimp dishes, snail dishes, other bivavles, prepared either with tamarind, lemon grass and chili, butter etc… but i’ll get more of those next time.
i’d watch which girls you ogle and actually just save it for after dinner shakes at café di vang2 down the street.