Craving for Vietnamese cuisine in Ipoh? Perhaps VNam Kitchen Restaurant is the place to go. As far as I know, it is the ONLY restaurant in Ipoh which serves Vietnamese food. Hahaha not bad not bad.. =P.

Located at the “business area” of Ipoh, this shop is not too hard to find. Simply walk along the lane which has the buffet steamboat restaurant and Soon Fatt restaurant. Its right in the middle.

As far as I know, VNam Kitchen Restaurant originated from the Klang Valley where the original owners started their business there. Now their business in the Klang Valley has been taken over by their children and they decided to come back to Ipoh and start another restaurant. (The one in Klang Valley is called another name). VNam Kitchen restaurant has another stall in Vooley Food City at Ipoh Garden. Of course, the variety of food served at that stall are much lesser than the real shop itself.

Hmm, considering that I have not tried Vietnamese coffee so I thought erm. let’s order this.

The coffee came like this, hot water kept at the top of the stainless steel container slowly dripping through the coffee beans. It was really sweet though. They provided free additional hot water thought if you’d like a refill.

Here’s the appetizer. It comes in a plate of 3 different types of meat fried in different style. There’s the Vietnamese vermicelli(Mong) and fried spring rolls. It comes with rice paper thingi which is supposed to be used to wrap the ingredients a.k.a. popiah.

Failed attempt to wrap~

Here’s the lemongrass chicken chop rice. Supposed to be the best seller here. There’s another version of this also, pork lemongrass chop. It surely did not fail to live up to its best seller status =P.

Vnam Kitchen also serves other Vietnamese food, such as the famous Vietnam’s Pho Bo or beef noodles, chicken noodles or Pho Ga, and spring rolls wrapped with sheets of rice paper. I ordered the Pho Bo only though.

Plenty of beef inside. However, I still prefer the beef noodles served at Sri Maju. I know they are different, but I like the soup in Sri Maju’s beef noodles more.

Getting to this place is easy but then be aware that the chances of getting a parking lot near to this shop is very low. Be prepared to walk alot..