Saigon Fare Cafe is a surprisingly big diner. It is essentially clean and spacious, but some elements are dilapidated, like a cracked tabletop held together by tape. It looks like a cheap hole-in-the-wall and it basically is.Staff are friendly and the short lady who runs the place and does the cooking feels like your aunt (the nice one).
Spicy Pork Bánh Mì ($3.95)
- Approximately 9" long.
- This was the special-of-the-day and not on the regular menu.
- By "spicy" it means pork marinated in spice, in this case, soy and anise braised pork. She did offer to put some chili peppers in it if I wanted it hot-spicy, but I declined.
- The sandwich was by no means overflowing with filling, but it still works out to about 2½ cheap hamburgers.
- Slices of meat were quite thick, at maybe 4 millimeters or close to a quarter-inch.
- This felt like a really cheap eat and just one sandwich was good enough to be a filling lunch meal.
Spring Rolls ($2.50 for one, $7.25 for three)
- Under no circumstances should you order this.
- Long, thin "spring roll" -- slightly thinner than an El Monterey Taquito.
- The spring roll wrap apparently loves oil because this deep fried item was quite oily.
- Barely any taste, made worse by what tasted like plum sauce, watered down with water and/or vinegar.
- The filling was vermicelli, token other stuff that looked like carrot and red lettuce and peanut.
- Considering that three of them won't add up to a single bánh mì, stick to the cheap Vietnamese baguettes here.
Rambutan Tropical Fruit Crusher ($4)
- Canned rambutan plus shaved ice.
- You can get exotic tropical fruit for under $3 per can at Superstore, and each can will probably contain three times as much fruit. So this works out to about a typical price for a made-in-store drink.
- If you are feeling cheap, hike it to Superstore, which is not that far away, and get a drink there. This week, a tall can of T.A.S. coconut water was just 98 cents.
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