The Real Le Anh

Initially I was going to give her 5 stars, but after going a second time I cannot. Great wonton soup. $ 1.50 for 4 wontons, bean sprouts. This time I ordered general tsos chicken and a chicken dish from the wok. Both were disappointing. The GS chicken was covered with an inedible blood red sauce. The taste, smell and look were a turn off. My search continues for good food near penn campus.

This is going to be an informative review, so please take note:
When I first ate at this food truck, I ordered Phad Thai and it was truly awful – not even passable. I said to myself that I would never patronize the truck, again. It happened, however, that I was desperate for dumplings one day and it was the closest truck. I ordered dumplings and the place instantly became my favorite Chinese food truck around UPenn. The dumplings are all homemade and extremely good for the price you pay ($ 3 for enough to make a full meal), very much unlike the majority of dumplings one finds at food trucks, which are overpriced, scanty and clearly from a frozen package. You have got to realize that the photos on her truck (which make it look like she sells frozen dumplings) are not photos of her own items – they are just clip art taken from the internet, as she told me, once. In my visits back, I came to realize that the thing about The Real Le Anh’s is that some of the dishes are WONDERFUL and a really great price and others are not worth trying at all. You just have to know what to order and if you order the right thing, this place is excellent. The Singapore Noodle dish is outstanding, for instance. It is better than similar dishes I have ordered at very nice sit-​down restaurants for $ 12 – 13 and it is a mere $ 5! If you order something with regular chicken in it (I don’t know about breaded and fried chicken dishes as I do not order them), she uses very nice quality rotisserie chicken (again, rare in Chinese food trucks around here). Also, she is very gracious and has even, on a few occasions when I lacked sufficient cash, told me very kindly that I could come and pay her on the next day. Now, I am very picky about quality, so please heed my advice, regarding these horrible reviews you see here: some things at Le Anh are excellent and some things are awful. These people experienced the latter (as I did when I first arrived – do not order anything Thai) and that is why the reviews are awful. Try the dumplings, the Singapore noodles, the eggplant chicken or the fried eggplant and you will be very pleased with your choice.

Cheap, quick Chinese food (with a smattering of Thai and Singaporean dishes). Very friendly service and generous portions.
Only complaint is that every now and then, the seasoning proportions are off (recently got a Singapore noodle that tasted like curry powder and salt and nothing else).

Eek, I’m not quite sure if the food here is considered real Chinese food. I really hate giving places bad reviews but this food truck was just THAT bad. I ordered the General Tso’s chicken, a classic Chinese dish. Yet, it tasted as if the owner defrosted some chicken nuggets and poured some sticky, reheated General Tso’s-like sauce on it. It’s like the frozen kind you would get from a supermarket, if they had any.
You also have the option of choosing lo main or white rice with your entrée and I chose white rice. Sadly, even the rice was soggy. Definitely, not worth a try if you are in the mood for Chinese food. I would instead walk to 37^th & Walnut and try the Chinese food truck by Penn’s gym, Pottruck or even go to Beijing (on the same street) to get some Chinese food.

So it was about 20 degrees and I was studying at the library right around the corner from Le Anh’s. I got hungry, and it was too cold to walk anywhere further to get food. Le Anh’s it was!
I ordered the general tso chicken with lo mein. The service is great, and the people are friendly and prepare your food pretty quickly. However, the food was a no-​go for me. I hate giving bad reviews, but the general tso chicken was not good at all. It honestly felt like it was just cubes of frozen chicken that they defrosted and drizzled with sauce. I understand it’s a food truck and they gotta do what they gotta do for fast service, but the chicken was so disappointing. The noodles were okay… it wasn’t good but I wouldn’t say it was terrible.
I don’t think I’ll come here for quick chinese food again. Beijing is right down the street a little and there are other food trucks on the block. Next time, I won’t let the cold deter me from going a little further for better food.

I used to buy from this food truck a lot, but I’ve had enough. Three times already I had hair in my take-​out in only a few months. The brown rice is often hard and caked from the bottom of the pan, really bad. Service also takes a while. Tang is much better.

I am not even sure that there is a marked difference between this and Le Anh, but for some reason, I do prefer this one. My tofu with vegetables today came in a thick but pretty tasty sauce that wasn’t too salty or greasy. I can see how the same sauce everyday would get tiresome but for a lunch 1 – 2 times a week, it is filling, cheap, and not unhealthy. In any case, it’s certainly better than the Delicious Food Truck that paddled out spoonfuls of pre-​cooked fare to the masses at 77 Mass Ave. And people, remember that you are only paying $ 4 – 4.50, for goodness sake!

This is probably one of the worst food trucks on campus.
All the sauce here is goo. They are overly thick or sweet or salty or bland or a mix of everything which makes your tastebuds confused in a bad way. This is one party in your mouth that you do not want to have.
The food here is overly oily too. Granted that it is a food truck, it is not healthy but it was too hevay and doused in oil that I could not really taste the food. Even if kims is oily you can still taste the sauce. The oil makes the sauces here extra gross and very one dimensional.
The quality of the food is also very bad. I do not think that the lady care that much about producing edible food. I think she is banking on the fact that she is one of the closer food trucks to the med building and near the quad so poor vulnerable freshman who are sick of the dining hall food and people who are in a rush will eat here.

Lets put it this way: Its sketchy cheap Chinese food that’s served from a food truck. The service is quick but otherwise it’s not that remarkable. There are plenty of better food truck options, but in a pinch this place will do.

The worst food I have had in 19 years in Philadelphia.
I could deal with the terrible quality of the chicken, but when I found one of the lady’s hairs in my mouth I threw it all away, wishing I could throw up.

Her kung pao chicken is solid; the chicken tastes like it came off a rotisserie instead of a frozen block of meat like most other trucks/​restaurants. I go here almost every week!

The Real Le Anh is my go-​to for greasy, delicious Chinese food. I generally go with something boring like sesame chicken, but it’s seriously delicious. The lady who runs it is always very friendly. Unlike a previous reviewer, I very much enjoyed the spring rolls, which are fried to perfection.
I love the food, and the only reason I’m giving 4 instead of 5 stars is just because of how greasy and fried the food tends to be. Granted, I’ve only gotten fried dishes, but even then the rice appears to be oily and greasy. On the other hand, if you just want some delicious Chinese food for cheap, this is the place to go.

Are you a «Real Le Anh» fan or an «Original Le Anh» fan?
I go this one. They’re right across the street from each other, which has to be rough. Honestly, the food is quite similar, but for some reason, I kind of prefer this one.

WHOAAA… the pork spare ribs looked nothing like the picture. They were also tougher than beef/​pork jerky. I ended up taking a few bites before I realized that it was all inedible. A waste of $ 5. I’ve had better from this food truck. Not much better, but better than 1 star. I think the chicken with mushrooms or tofu deserves 2 stars, maybe 3 if I’m being generous. The phở is a stinker, too. Yuck.

I have probably been passing by this place at any time of the day except, perhaps, 5am in the morning. The Real Le Anh is here regularly from something like 10am until 9pm, even on Saturdays and Sundays AND during the summer when much less students frequent the place. In fact, it totally saved me today because I really wanted something soup-​like for lunch.
I got their phở and while I might not be the best judge on the quality of phở, I thought their broth was flavorful and delicious, and the chicken pieces were well-​cooked (and not overcooked). The soup came out piping hot like it has to be, and the ingredients were of fairly good quality for the price (4.50). I haven’t been here that often, but every time, service was fast and the lady working here always thanked me for the business and had a smile on her face. There might be other food trucks with better food out there, but in terms of service, I truly appreciate the hard work put in at this place.

I got the chicken dumplings and tofu chow fun. The dumpling wrapper tasted like thick pasta and it was smothered in hoisin sauce. The Chow fun was pretty inedible, had ABSOLUTELY no flavor, and I threw it out after having one bite. The tofu was pretty much warmed up raw tofu, it was not cooked in any way. Overall, I definitely won’t be returning and I was so excited to try this place since she marks it as «The REAL Le Anh,» makes me nervous to try the other «Le Anh.» There are too many things on the menu for one person, she should make the menu smaller and tighter so it’s easier to cook for a crowd and more likely that the food will be good.