Anyhow, the roach wasn’t gonna get me down! He was dead after all, and on the floor. (I did place a napkin over him so I didn’t need to see him lying there). So, we get up and start checking out the food. Lots of variety here. I was impressed! I haven’t been to a Vietnamese buffet, let alone in San Diego. I grabbed some lemon grass chicken, some lemon grass beef, and several other assorted rice noodle items. Looks good huh? I thought so too. But look closer. See that lemon grass beef in the top right of my bowl? Now click the picture so you can see if larger. Want to take a guess?
Yup, lemon grass ROACH stir fried right into the beef. I literally had picked this up and was about to place this into my mouth when I noticed some legs that shouldn’t have been there!! Great… just what I needed. Needless to say, my appetite was ruined after this. So, I placed my newfound friend on a napkin and warned my cousin to not eat the beef!
Before I left though, I tried some Pho and a couple other things anyways… I wasn’t about to pay $10 for nothing… lol. Of course I scrutinized everything from that point forward. From there I found a lovely piece of hair and a happy house fly enjoying the dessert buffet with the remainder of the patrons… I was DONE!
The sad thing is that I won’t be coming back here, but the place had really good potential.
Today’s lunch was a big “Phat” FAIL. Diners beware!
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omfg,i'm glad i read this because i was seriously thinking of going there. saw the $2 off coupon in the reader but was also thinking, hmmmm…what's the catch. ironically, my dad had just raved about this place but his standards are much lower than mine.
Oh man, that's totally gross. Gross, gross, fail. Won't be going, that's for sure.
Yeah, it's too bad. Great concept, poor execution. Glad you didn't have to find any surprises yourself!
*I just watched a Today show episode last week that did a special segment on food sanitation. They mentioned for every roach seen, there are another several hundred living in the walls and out of sight. Yuck.
As some of you surely have noticed, Phat is gone! I can't say that I'm surprised.
haha, i was just mentioning to my friend today as we drove through convoy how phat was gone! goodbye roachville!