A lot of folk rave about Kingsland Road offering the best Vietnamese food in the city, but Huong Viet, which is based in this inauspicious looking community centre about ten minutes from the heart of Shoreditch, wins hands down, and is not full of people in silly fluorescents thinking they're all highly individual.
The starters are all fantastic - particularly the prawn, and the gunpowder pork, fresh rolls, with plum sauce. They don't look too pretty - well, not the way I've shot them at least - but they taste superb.
But my favourite dish here is the hot and spicy lamb - again, apologies for the un-pretty:
DO NOT confuse this dish with the 5 spice lamb, which is as close to a mistake as you can make on this menu. No, HOT AND SPICY lamb - fiery, rich, slightly sweet and deeply savoury, with onions, peppers, chillis and tender lamb. Delicious with their egg fried rice and a cold beer....
(Be warned, the service is slow. Almost unacceptably slow. Some of my friends refuse to come here because it's so slow but then some of my friends eat at GBK and strictly speaking should not really be called 'friends' - more 'people I used to go out with')
Huong Viet, 12 - 14 Englefield Road, Monday - Saturday
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