From my experience to date no great fan of Vietnamese food, at least not that served in England and what I have tried in Berlin only marginally better.
Pho, a chain of fake Vietnamese street food restaurants, not only the food not good, bad service to match.
Mama’s Kitchen, a Vietnamese restaurant in Berlin, the food to say the least not very good.
For September, no ShuJu Kitchen Taiwanese pop up kitchen at Union St, I decided to try the Vietnamese.
Union St was the reason for my visit to Sheffield, or at least Monday for the Vietnamese pop up kitchen.
Oh what a disappointment. I have never been impressed with Vietnamese food, but never this bad. Noodles and tofu, both were stone cold, not even lukewarm, stone cold as though served straight from a fridge.
Myself and a fellow customer complained. We were given our money back. There was then an offer to hot it up. Plate was hot, food not even lukewarm.
But even had it been hot, it would still have been a very poor offering.
What though was reasonable, was the potato and pork soup. Not listed, and I only had because I asked what it was. And then perversely they offered to pour it over the stone cold noodle and tofu. I stopped them, obtained a take away cup, a and drank it from the cup.
Union St need to replace these guys.
I like the idea of a pop up kitchen, to try different food, to give the chefs an opportunity, but Union St need to exercise quality control.
There is also a need on the board, to at the very least list a twitter account to enable their offerings to be checked out. And for those running the pop up, to list what they will have available, or if not there.
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