Quan An 667
667 Thanh Ba
Can Giuoc
072894311
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Features
vegetarian dishes
kid friendly
large groups ok
outdoor/patio dining
Accepts
cash
Smoking
permitted
Dress
casual
Alcohol
wine / beer
Parking
own parking lot
Handicapped Access
partially accessible
Access to the eatery is no problem.
Where difficulty may occur is when you have to go down the earth track to the thatch toilet at the back.
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Description
A restaurant situated in the forecourt of a large house, surrounded by high fencing. Cement pan at front and side of house on which plastic tables and chairs are set. Eatery at number 667.
Can seat up to about 100 people.
This is a rural area and behind the flash modern house the place reveals its thatched roof and hole in the floor thatch toilet pedigree.
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This place is in Huyen Can Giuoc. Huyens are roughly rural counties outside of the Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) metropolitan area. This area is about 40 minutes from where I live in Saigon South, by motorbike. It is genuine countryside, the heartland of the former revolution.
I've been down there a couple of times over the past few weeks, and this time, at end of business day, was invited to eat here. The invite was mainly to drink beer and celebrate what had transpired during the day's deal.
I was not expecting much by way of eats, but was stunned by what eventuated. Sometimes these southern VN rural eateries just make you draw breath. In addition, they invite serious comparative comment on some of the trendy foody eateries in the SG CBD.
Five adults: 4 VNese (2 men), and me. So only 3 of us males drinking.
Beery celeb: Heinekens 13.500 VND. Very cold, plus ice provided.
Then nosh: starter was a plate of alimentary canal, done with white onion, tamarind and ginger. Superb. That began the eating surprises.
To follow: beef luc lac (cubed beef) with salad and chips. Beef tender, small cubes. Chips excellent. Got me thinking back home today about a correlation between chip quality and distance removed from the trendy foody eateries of central SG. The trend I see is: closer you are to trendyville, more likely you get French fries and very ordinary at that; further away you go, more chance there is you get good to excellent chips.
Then hot pot (lau) goat. Which I find a bit tedious now, as so often we have to eat it. I passed, as it was mainly drink fest anyhow.
But then the # 1 dish and # 1 surprise: chim cut (roasted bbq quail). This is one of my favourites, but here it was the best I have ever eaten. Far better than anything I've had in SG. All 5 birds black from the barbie, exactly as I like, very well done. Brilliant. Tender meat with charred black exterior so flavoursome.
Service good. Ambience good as well. We sat outdoors of course.
Entire proceedings cost my host 278,000 VND, for all those eats and 11 beers. (5 eaters remember) So cheap. [10 Jan 2008 10:09:07]
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Recommended Dishes: bbq quail; alimentary canal; chips
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