Too Americanized
Sunday, December 10, 2006
You can usually tell if a restaurant is authentic by the customers and Thanh is a Vietnamese restaurant geared more towards the American taste. The food at Thanh was excellent and I thoroughly enjoyed my dinner experience at the restaurant but I felt that the restaurant was too Americanized and reminded me too much of ThaiFoon (another Americanized restaurant that serves Thai cuisine). I'm accustomed to Vietnamese restaurants in Westminster where the waitors speak broken English, the establishment is grungier, and the restaurant is full of Vietnamese patrons at late hours of the night. It's not that Thanh isn't a good restaurant, by any means, but that I prefer the more authentic Vietnamese restaurants located in other cities.