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Maryland, United States Food Guide: 3 Vietnamese food Must-Eat Restaurants & Street Food Stalls in Frederick
Discover Restaurants offering the best Vietnamese food in Frederick, Maryland, United States. With its collection of historic homes, museums and battlefields, Frederick, Maryland, is a must-see destination for any history enthusiast. The sites of two bloody Civil War battles are preserved at Monocacy National Park and South Mountain State Park. Within the city, visit the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and learn how soldiers wounded in those battles were treated, or visit the house of Barbara Fritchie and picture her hanging the Stars & Stripes in defiance of the Confederate Army.
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1. Lucky Corner Vietnamese Restaurant
Overall Ratings
4 based on 52 reviews
Reviewed By fred200099
These guys always meet a very high standard for interesting and excellent dishes. This is the modern and slightly more formal branch of the original restaurant still in operation on 7th Street and Market. The food is made with high quality fresh ingredients and service is always friendly and speedy. Among the many interesting dishes is the crispy flounder - when available, you can get one large enough to feed several people. Nice variety of noodle types, pho, and Vietnamese versions of hot and sour soup, pad Thai, etc. My favorite dish is still the Saigon soup and my wife alternates between tamarind chicken and mango chicken. Amazing looking desserts with sticky rice, mango, and flan.
2. Viet's Aroma
Overall Ratings
4 based on 36 reviews
Reviewed By Damy1212
I visited Viet's Aroma almost twice a month. It's closer to my work and the food and service are excellent! I was a little scare at the beginning because it was the first time eating in a Vietnamese Restaurant but the experience was more than great. The first time I tried the Soup (Pho). The house special is great! Really tasty and you will get really full with the small one. The next time I tried the Fresh Garden Egg Rolls, simply delicious. In my last visit, We tried something different: Ginger Chicken and my husband tried the Vietnamese Steak. Both were amazing. Don't be scare to ask about a plate, the service is excellent and the waiter will explain the dishes. And don't worry if you are not able to eat with chopsticks, me neither, just ask for a fork but don't miss the opportunity of great food.
3. Pho TNT
Overall Ratings
4 based on 35 reviews
Reviewed By Keydawn
We are leery to try unknown eateries while passing through town. Pho TNT just confirmed why franchises or chains are so popular in America, you know, the identical McDonald hamburgers which don't exactly qualify as food, or the much healthier burritos of Chipotle but boring all the same. We were in the mood for Asian (Thai or Vietnamese) specifically, but since typical Thai restaurants require a very competent kitchen to do things right, I said to my better half, "How can a Vietnamese cook mess up Pho soup or grilled meat?" I should have known better, we have been to quite a few Pho places in metro Mo Co and came away terribly disappointed. I mean, really?First of all, I don't understand why everything is about $1 to $2 more expensive than Mo Co where both rents and wages are higher there. Lack of competition perhaps. So in our books, this is not cheap eat. But if you don't have the volume, you have to make up by higher margin. If Pho D'Lite, a chain soon to be franchised based in Mo Co, comes to town, they'll see their volume go down even further. May I suggest the proprietor go visit one and understand why having a good "business model" makes the difference between success vs just surviving.Secondly, taste-wise everything is off. We have never been to Vietnam, but having eaten in so many Pho eateries, we get a good sense of how things ought to be just from comparing. Like we say in our industry, all it takes is comparing 3 bids or more to understand pricing. The meat isn't done correctly, my wife's grilled pork is tough & too sweet, my daughter's grilled beef didn't look like it's grilled and has little flavor. This isn't a fault unique to Pho TNT, almost all American restaurants say "grilled chicken" when in fact it's boiled white meat with blackened grill mark impressed upon them. Grilled meat should be, well, grilled on open flame or charcoal.Thirdly, portion. My wife said her grilled pork rice is small in portion, now that's news 'cos she never finishes her meal as she's only 5' and 90 lb. My daughter's vermicelli is okay in size though too wet (it's supposed to be briefly cooked in hot water then strained dry before it goes into the bowl, commercial kitchen being what it is, rarely is it properly drained so that it is damp but never dripping). My regular sized bowl of Pho is decent in size but totally wrong when it cames to the meat, and here is the good news about this restaurant, the folks who run the place are decent people.Fourth, humble, honest, responsible service. I told my waitress the meat is pathetic in quantity, and not what was stated in the menu, TNT Special for an additional $0.75. She immediately went to get someone who can improve the situation. A man, whom I surmised is either the owner or the manager came out from the kitchen, and I showed him what's in my bowl: 2 quarters of a meatball, 4 thin slices of cooked meat cut in the wrong direction (if you don't cut the meat against its fiber strands, it looks & chews funny and gets stuck between your teeth), and there is no tendon or pretty much anything else that's protein. He apologized and I said, just get me the regular eye-round meat, not the special meat at a premium. Then he came back and asked, "Raw or well-cooked?" Well I said, just how it's typically done in a Vietnamese kitchen, thinly sliced raw meat which is cooked by the heat of the soup between the kitchen and the table, just make sure the soup is piping hot. He said, "Yes, but we are here in Frederick, so we ask." I sighed, knowing exactly what he meant.This is to my fellow American citizens. Don't go out to eat in ethnic restaurants if you want your food done exactly the way you want it. You can do that at home, or go to an "American" restaurant, where they will do rare/medium/well-done, take out the lettuce and double up on the tomato and serve the salad dressing on the side of your iceberg lettuce, you know, the French, Italian or 1000 Island that come out of a bottle. When you go out to eat, you go out to experience the artistry of the chef, the exotic food that's done the way they have always been done, except in America. And no, no one ever serves a fish without its head or eyes, or fortune cookies after a meal or order fried rice to go with their entre in China or among the Chinese. Ever.To survive, and not have the food sent back to the kitchen regularly because "that's not how I like it", most ethnic eateries have to CATER to the American palate in small towns where the folks not only don't know any better but insists on having exotic ethnic food served just the way their non-Cosmopolitan rural American palat demands. That would be like going to a Lebanese restaurant and demand the belly dancers cover up their belly or you'll call the police to enforce community decency or a Japanese eatery and ask why is your fish not properly cooked.If you don't allow your Vietnamese chef to cook his native way, how can you expect to have authentic, good Vietnamese food to enjoy? I used to take my American friends to have Cantonese dim sum as a special treat. Not anymore. They always wanted to know what is being served and only eat what looks common place and "safe". It's torture for them and so not a special treat after all. Not everyone can travel the world and enjoy it, if only in culinary exposure. Yes, he will have No. 13 and done the Frederick, MD way.
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