Quan Lua honours their self-claimed specialty in charcoal-grilled dishes, especially Bún Chả Hà Nội (BCHN).
This particular dish was well presented.
The meat slices and tiny meat patty (chả) were charcoal-grilled for sure. The authenticity of the dish was presented not only in its flavour, but also came down to the tiny detail like the accent of the serving staff when he sounded out your orders to their kitchen in the back.
BCHN’s taste was lightly salty, sweet, and sour. All was well-balanced in a warm bowl of meaty, slight fatty, grilled-flavour fish sauce.
And talking about details, Quan Lua’s attention to detail for BCHN went to things as small as a bite-side herbs and salad going with it. Not like most other restaurants here or even in Vietname serving BCHN with herbs, especially mint, as a whole medium/big stems, and you would have to pick the herbs’ leaves out to eat with the meat, at Quan Lua, it was hand-picked (I think) the younger herbs stem or the top head of the stem and prepared into bite-side so you could have it from the plate straight to tour mouth.
Overall I enjoyed Quan Lua’s BCHN specifically, and will definitely come back for other dishes listed in their self-claimed specialty (Pshh! I spotted many people getting Com Tam or Broken Rice).
I could see their BCHN becomes a hits even more than right now if the bowl of fish sauced is served steaming hot (not just slight warm) in this cold weather of winter. The last star in my review is reserved for that perfection.
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4.5
