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Sunday, January 30, 2022

Long Phung

I begin to start recollecting my memories on the last visit to Long Phung when our meetup calls for Vietnamese Food in Joo Chiat. My last visit was about 7 years ago when pandemics haven't started and we used to get a full packed place.

Long Phung

The place is of course more spread out than before due to the pandemic restrictions. The Interior has no major changes. They still have dishes from the menu plastered on the wall.

Interior

Surprisingly after so many years, the price of the rolls still remain the same. These rice paper rolls of salad with shrimp & pork are my favourite order whenever I visit the Vietnamese eating place. Having said that, dipping these tightly wrapped rolls into the sweet peanut sauce perfect the taste.

Goi Cuon (4 Cuon) (Rolled Salad with Shrimps and Pork) - $7

If you prefer something fried for appetizers or sharing, these Fried Vietnamese Spring Rolls are not bad.

Cha Gio (Vietnamese Spring Rolls (Small) - $10

The soft and crispy exterior of the rice paper were deep-fried with ground meat in it. The appetizer is made perfect with sweet and sour chilli sauce.

Individual Roll

This is my first time having Vietnamese Mini Savory Pancakes. It is crispy outside while rich and creamy in the centre with a prawn. I'm not so much of a coconut milk person in food like this thus I will give this a miss.

Banh Khot 8 cai (Khot Cakes 8 Pcs) - $10

A look into the bowl of Pho and I have already spotted the difference. Where have those leafy basils gone to? Special Noodle Soup has all kinds of special beef variations such as raw sliced steak, beef briskets, tendons and meatballs. The soup still tastes great and this dish comes with a raw egg too.

Pho Dac Biet (Special Noodle Soup)- $9.90

For something simpler, the classic beef noodle soup, Pho Nam is stomach comforting. It comes with slices of beef flank in the light yet sweet tasting soup with yellow onions.

Pho Nam (Well-done beef noodle soup) - $8.50 

Coffee Lovers who have yet to try the popular dripping Vietnamese coffee will want to give this a try. The cup of milk was served separately.

Cafe Sua Nong (Hot Milk Coffee)

Take a look at the coffee

While beverage is a must order to accompany our food. We have some ice milk coffee and ice milk tea.

Cafe Sua Da (Milk Coffee with Ice) - $4
Tra Sua Da (Ice Milk Tea) - $3.50

With the air travel restrictions, this Vietnamese food serves as an alternative to fix the craving for the cuisine.


Posted 2nd September 2015

And the search of best authentic Pho continues... It was to my surprise that there are a number of Vietnamese eating places in Joo Chiat. As usual we patronized the one that has more crowd, the restaurant settings was more towards a family environment with spacious walkways, comfortable and big tables for groups.

Counter
Perhaps it was a sunday evening , servers were slow yet steady in their serving.

Menu
Place was simple and well kept with illustrated food dishes plastered on their walls. Though there were a handful of vietnamese around in the restaurant, these pictures aid patrons and gave them a better view of particular dish.

Interior
Of all juices and drinks, I had decided to opt for the Thai coconut for its refreshing taste. Meat was soft and easily scrapped out from its husk. Sweet and thirst quenching under the heat.

Thai Coconut - $3.70
Jackfruit Smoothie was not a bad idea too. Simply love the sweet fragrant from the fruit itself and when everything was blended into smoothie, it is actually very soothing too for a hot day like this.

Sinh To Mit - $4.30
My all time favourite again from the Vietnamese Cuisine! It comes in small or big portion where the small consists of 4 rolls at $7 while the bigger portion has got 6 rolls at $10.50. They termed it as their rolled salad with shrimp and pork rice nicely by the translucent moist rice paper. The dipping sauce played a big role in this dish usually, however the sauce over here in Long Phung was kind of let down as it reminds me of our local "Chee Cheong Fun" sweet sauce, not the kind of style I like.

Goi Cuon (4 Cuon) - $7

Pho Nam ~ Well-done beef's brisket noodle soup gave me the refreshing taste from its broth. It was light, however, I find that the brisket were rather hard and at some part, the noodle has kind of funny smell which was not too pleasing.

Pho Nam - $7

Looks like we are always stuck between these two familiar dishes and that is none other than their special noodle soup again. As compared to my previous bowl, the light tasting broth was delighting in its beef combination, herbs, eggs as well as garnishing.

Pho Dac Biet - $8

Close up

Beef ball over here was not too spectacular and taste run-of-the-mill, something that you can get off the shelves perhaps.

Beef Ball

For two consecutive meal with Vietnamese Cuisine, even though Long Phung is considered as authentic, my vote will still goes to Mrs Pho for its environment and Pho. Do note that only CASH is accepted here.

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Long Phung
Location: 159 Joo Chiat Road Singapore 427436

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