Restaurant Review: Viet Thai Noodle House

So this past Sunday, I took Anna to a place I've been meaning to check out since arriving back in Charlotte. Viet Thai Noodle House. I drive by it every day on my way to class and work, so I figured, why the hell not give it a shot?

I was sure to take a lot of pictures, so instead of going into a long-as description of everything, I'm gonna walk you through the pictures.

 

I decided to wait until we were seated before I took a picture of the restaurant, and I decided to take full advantage of the Panorama setting for my iPhone camera. It screwed up a little once I got to Anna, because I started moving my phone a little faster than I had been, but it's still a good view of the whole place. Personally, I liked the decor. It was very tasteful.

 

This was one of the things that impressed me the most. The wooden menu. Granted, you can see that they aren't taken care of as well as they should be, but it sets them apart from every other restaurant I've been to... I mean, who is willing to spend the money to get specially made menu covers? It's a very nice and unexpected touch.

 

When you go to a place that serves Asian cuisine, you have to get hot tea. We decided to split a pot of green tea, and I must say, Viet Thai has awesome tea pots and absolutely fantastic green tea.

This is what Anna ordered. I can't remember what our dishes were called, but they were absolutely delicious, and for the size of the portions, they are well worth the money.

 

Again, I can't remember what this was called, but it's what I ordered. I remember it had shrimp, squid, chicken and beef, all of which was perfectly cooked, with a nice assortment of vegetables and a fantastic sauce.

 

Again with the wood. This time on the check cover. And of course, no Asian dining experience in America is complete without a fortune cookie. The brand that Viet Thai uses is sweeter than what I'm used to, but still tasty

There was one downfall that I saw while Anna and I were enjoying our meal, and that was a matter of sanitation. I witnessed one of the employees use a rag to wipe off one of the seats in a booth, and then he used that same rag to wipe off the table of said booth. That is a very large sanitation violation in my book, simply because studies have shown that every seat, regardless of where you are, has trace amounts of human feces on it. Therefore, using a rag to wipe the seat transfers said feces onto the rag, and if that rag is then used to wipe a table, the feces are transferred onto the table... That is the main reason why I refuse to eat food that has touched a table in any restaurant I go to unless I know for a fact that the employees either don't wipe the seats, or that they use separate rags for wiping the tables and chairs.

Due to that violation, my rating of Viet Thai Noodle House comes to 7/10 instead of an 8/10.