Thanh Vi Restaurant

Maybe because I’ve eaten here since I was a wee little pup or maybe because eating here reminds me of Saturday morning breakfast with my family before life and school started taking over but this place is a classic.
If anyone is traveling through Chinatown as a local or as a tourist, you need to stop by and get a bowl of their dried noodles and Chinese donut.
You can get the dried noodles with soup in it already or you can get it on the side. I usually get mine on the side and suggest you do too because you can taste the different layers of flavors that they have and when you mix in a bit of the spicy mustard and red vinegar, it brings the whole bowl of noodles to a whole new level.
I get the bowl of dried noodles «half and half» which has half egg noodles and have clear noodles– hey, I want the best of both worlds and it is always delicious like that! You can tell the restaurant is owned by a family as they know my family and they know their regular customers. They catch up on our lives as we do with theirs and we see their family members grow up along the way.
If you ever travel through Chinatown, come eat here. I like eating at small restaurants compared to chains as I feel their food is cooked with so much heart and soul.

I was so hungry after the yoga class & just craving for some hot soup. Checked Unilocal & found out this place, 5 min from Disney Concern Hall & FREE parking, right on back of the restaurant. I order the special Phở and o.m.g this is the Phở I’m looking for! The taste beat all the Phở restaurant in K-​town for sure. The service was very fast & extremely nice. Only one thing is cash only, like others asian restaurants around here but it’s ok cause the price is so surprise cheap for DTLA. I definitely back here for my Vietnamese food craving.

Decent phở for the area. Expect to pay about $ 7 for a bowl. There wasn’t much meat and they don’t give cilantro! How can you have phở without cilantro! Nice thing is they have free parking in the back.

Very authentic Vietnamese cuisine. I recommend the beef stew with egg noodle with a side of spring rolls. Everything was made fresh. The best part was the dessert. Oh yeah, there is free parking for customers in the back.

One my favorite places in Chinatown. They are a Chinese, Cambodian and Vietnamese restaurant. They have dishes that reflect each culture. I go for their dried noodle or soup less noodle dishes. Also their 3 delights drink which is red bean, Ming bean and pandan jelly with coconut milk and crushed is the best around.

Cheap and delicious! Recommend the Hu Tieu Kho Thanh Vi and some spring rolls to start!

The spring rolls are the only thing that’s worth going for. The rest of the food is alright. Spring rolls are super affordable!

I Order a phở yesterday from this restaurant. I have to say it’s one of the best I had. The service was really quick and the server was really sweet and polite. My husband order a wonton soup and he loved it the price for both soup 6,50 $ and we had a chicken fried rice 7,00 $.
I recommend this place for Vietnamese food lover. The restaurant is not that great cause it’s really old kind family place. They got a «A» on their door so I guess the kitchen is clean.

Great chicken rice noodle soup ($ 6 per bowl) and spring rolls ($ 2 a roll)! Great prices too! The chicken in the soup was mostly dark meat, just the way I like it. When you get it to go the chicken and broth are in one container, and the noodles are in another. It also comes with slices of lime, jalapenos, bean sprouts, and onions slices on the side. The rice wrapper of the spring rolls aren’t too thick and chewy. There’s also a good ratio between the greens and the slices of pork and shrimp. The peanut dipping sauce is great. Warning though, I got a bowl of beef rice noodle soup once to go, and the broth was scalding hot! But I have gotten soup to go since then and haven’t had that problem.
I tried the sesame balls once (5 balls per order). They were great when eaten fresh, not so much after.
Remember to bring cash, credit cards aren’t accepted.

Been coming here for years and it still one of my favorite restaurants. I love the dry noodle with the soup in the side #6. Always friendly service from every worker. Plus it had free parking on the side too.

I use to love getting their Bun Cha Gio Nem Nuong here as a kid. Their broken rice plates and phở are all pretty solid too. The staff is also very friendly and always have a big smile.

–Authentic cuisine
–Affordable prices
–FREE parking
–Friendly service
–Great menu selection especially the dessert menu

* Price: awesome; $ 5 phở! 4+ star
* Ambiance: casual, bring back memory of local places in small town in Vietnam but clean, 3 star
* Location: Chinatown… street parking. Close at 6pm. 3 star.
* Meals: good varieties of authentic Vietnamese dishes besides phở (traditional Vietnamese noodle soups), 3+ star.
* Service: friendly, 4 star
We just moved to the area and stumbled upon this place. Small, quaint, clean… everyone is Vietnamese in this place. The menu has typical dishes including phở, summer rolls, spring rolls but they also have other dishes like band xeo (yellow crêpe), bang hoi, bang uot (rice sheet), bun bo hue (spicy beef soup, and etc.
We got phở tai nam (beef brisket noodle soup) and bang uot cha (rice sheet with pork loge). Both are pretty tasty and home cooked… The Vietnamese ice coffee is really good too! $ 18 for two including tax is not too shabby!
When you are in China town and craving for Vietnamese food, should definitely check this place out!

Keepin it real… Mi vit tiem aka duck egg noodle soup. They make it proper here. Moms was going here 20 years ago and they’re still in business, that’s gotta say something right? The food is really cheap, I think I paid something like $ 6 for the bowl. Never had it but I hear their phở and hu tieu are also good here too. If you’re in chinatown it’s definitely worth checking out if you feel like soup.

Great hidden gem for your Hu Tieu cravings!
On 6 dollars for flavorful bowl! The dish comes with pork, shrimp and crab as well as a crispy fried wonton to add texture. Definitely coming back to fulfill my Vietnamese noodle desires!

Came here as a kid and craved it as an adult.
Hu Tieu is what I come here for. They serve it dry with clear noodles, crab meat, shrimp and pork. Broth served on the side with a fried shrimp cake (dip the cake into the soup! OMG). Sooo delicious, add soy sauce & red wine vinegar to the dry noodles for extra flavor (it’s on the table with the condiments).
Growing up on vietnamese food I love the authentic mom and pop spots including Thanh Vi but I wished they spent extra time cleaning the place. It’d probably get them more business.
Parking is lame. The tiny lot in the back takes a lot of manuevering and can look sketchy. I think street parking is available.

My place for hu tieu when I can’t make the drive to Da-​Lat in San Jose. I’ve only ordered the hu tieu dry and to go. It comes with shrimps, a fried shrimp, pork slices, and with the usual veggies. The noodles are cooked just right and paired with a brown sauce. It’s a little oily, but helps me get through my Da-​Lat cravings.
Notables: street parking or parking in a lot in the back. I normally develop headaches if I have too much MSG, but am fine after eating a dry bowl of hu tieu from here (just the brown sauce, no broth).

..totally one of my local lunching places near Downtown Los Angeles!
I always order the Phở Noodle Soup (#1 on their menu). Ask for it like this, «WITHOUT the noodles, extra vegetables, beef only» and you will get a very TASTY low carb, low fat, high protein meal.
Phở soup portions are decent to plentiful. The rice combo dishes are a little on the small side, but that’s probably due to the «lunch menu».
Prices are very very reasonable for the Phở soup and just reasonable for the rice combo dishes. Timing wise, the food is served within, from what one might say, quick to acceptable.
Staff members are always very friendly and accommodating. Parking is free on the street across from the LA Public Library, or metered in front of their establishment, or free in their parking garage.
However, keep in mind, this is a cash only place, and closed on Mondays.

This place has EXCELLENT food!
Everything really fresh and authentic. Phở is good, but I would say this place has the best Hu Tieu Mi Kho in town.
You will also have to try the Sesame Balls with mung bean fillings. Delicious. Make sure you order ahead of time because it takes at least 10 mins for them to prepare. The fried them FRESH!!!

[So I know very little about Vietnamese food. Spring rolls and phở is about it.] So I wanted some phở and ended up here at the Vietnamese restaurant on the corner in Chinatown (also known as Thanh Vi). It’s simple and not very clean — a very good sign for good Asian food. And I didn’t know most of the food on the menu — a second good sign.
So I stuck with phở and shared some spring rolls. But a surprise! The spring rolls we ordered were fried! And they were de-​licious! crunchier and fresher than Chinese eggrolls but still with a lot of grease from the frying. Yes!
The phở was average. It was mostly broth, as phở should be (?). I always like it loaded with various hot sauces anyway.

Next time I will try the Hu Tieu. Today I tried the very average but not bad Bun Cha Gio.
HOWEVER!!!
At the counter you will see slightly larger than golfball sized pastries that are coated in sesame seeds and filled with the most amazing bean paste (yellow, as opposed to red– which, as it turns out, the counter woman Edna and I agreed is much more delicious)
They are just about THE BEST BEAN PASTE PASTRIES I have ever had. I ordered another one on the way out. A crisp donut on the outside, a medley of sesame goodness assaulting your tongue, and the rich warm, custardy bean paste waiting for you inside. Get a million of them, I would.