Viet Hoa

Absolutely delicious - fresh and healthy food beautifully cooked. We are going back tonight to enjoy other dishes. 20/12/2011

Had lunch at the Viet Hoa recently. It was patchy. The chicken Pho was quite good. Light on chicken, but good flavour. The table salad was pretty light on. Now seeing that this had a $7.90 price tag, I guess that was reasonable. I could eat chicken pho 7 days a week. Chilli and lemon were provided on request, no extra charge. The spicy squid was not that exciting. Squid was large fried pieces and lacking any flavour or tenderness. Again $7.90, so really much better than a big mac for $2 more. The sugar cane prawn salad was ho hum, but not bad and again $7.90. It tasted like fish balls. Salad was fine but ordinary and way better than a big mac. Well healthier at least if you take your mind off what might be in the fish balls. Leave the krill to the whales I say. Not on the menu, were our drinks, which were great. Lemon soda and Vietnamese iced coffee. The latter was made with a shot of expresso rather than the cute, but takes ages drip filters, tons of ice and condensed milk. They were the highlight for me. These were happily provided on request. Would I go back there? Yes, but would like to see what the full menu provides. The vietnamese businessmen seemed to be eating from a different menu and it looked good...don't you hate menu envy? I certainly can't make pho for $7.90, but still crave it. It was cheap and maybe that's what the market wants. Any recommendations for great vietnamese food in Brisbane would be welcomed especially chicken pho..... sigh!!!! 28/10/2007

My partner and I dine at the Viet Hoa regularly. Having lived in Brisbane our whole lives, we have found this restaurant to have the best Chinese and Vietnamese cuisine the city has to offer. Meals are served in good time - not so long that you think they're picking the rice, but not so quickly that you think they're simply reheating. The Sweet and Sour pork is lovely - a deep rich red colour, not too sweet and not too sour. The honey chicken is never fatty, and you won't find pieces of batter with no meat inside. Dishes that need to be fried are done so lightly, and you never leave feeling sick in the stomach like you do after dining at other Chinese restaurants. The portions are huge! We can never finish our meals, and the waitresses will happily put the left-overs in containers for you to take home. They will even do so while standing at your table, so you know that you are taking ALL the left-overs home. I like the atmosphere there. West End is an interesting place to spend time - there's always something happening. Honestly, if you're looking for a good Chinese meal try the Viet Hoa. You won't regret it! 24/07/2007

Dined here on a Monday night. Had the salt and pepper squid and the rare beef pho. Sadly, both were substandard. The squid was tough and tasteless as was the beef in the pho. 18/07/2007

Dined at the restaurant on a relatively quiet Saturday afternoon for lunch. Ordered salt & pepper quail, beef noodle soup & a lemon grass pork chop rice As a friend recommended this restaurant, I was expecting a pretty good meal. Prices are a bit dearer than other Vietnamese restaurants in the area probably due to the location and ambience of the restaurant itself. Well I found the meal to very very substandard. The quail was very dry to the point where you can say it was crispy. It was almost like the chef just left the quail it fry and walked off plus it had no flavour. Normally Vietnamese pork chop rice is one the most mouth watering dishes you would ever have. Again, this meal and at this restaurant was very disappointing. The pork chop turned to out to be a pork fillet so it ended up being another dry dish rather than the moist, succulent dish you would expect. Normally broken rice is served with this dish however on this occasion it was service with normal steam rice. Overall, if your expecting good Vietnamese cuisine, I doubt this is a place where you would find it. They may present well but it certainly doesnt have the taste to it. 24/05/2007