Banh Cuon Tay Ho

Great food. Just don’t expect any service.

Love it here. The portions are large enough to share, but I ate my entire plate. I ordered the #7 something, and a side of «steamed pork»,(forgot the name). They offer vegetarian style as well so it’ll cater to all.

I’ve been wanting to try this place because of all the good reviews, but sadly my taste buds were disappointed. The service was kind of slow. It took a while for my food to come out, and when it did, I didn’t feel like it was worth the wait. The banh cuon barely had any filling in it, and it was accompanied by thick layers of the flour sheet. The banh xeo was not bad, but was a little greasy for my liking. This place is alright, but I would not go out of my way to eat here.

Something about eating rice noodles on a hot San Gabriel afternoon that is just so satisfying! Ordered Plate #7 which consisted of the rolls with ground beef (or pork?) with black fungus, sliced pork roll, beans sprouts, fresh cucumber which was a nice combination with the julienned fried sweet potato, and fried shrimp. Used to always frequent this place back in my high school days, but man the cravings have been so much stronger since I’m no longer living in the SGV area. Always come back here when I want a good old taste of home! When it comes to the service though can’t really hold it against them! Typical Vietnamese style operation and It’s a one man show everytime I’ve stopped by. Mans working hard!

I come here for their #1A. No matter where I go, they don’t have the deep fried yam shrimp. I always come back here for that. sometimes I order just that. deep fried yam shrimp on the side cuz one isn’t enough. I love their nuoc mam. It’s perfectly made. not too sour or too sweet. just right. The waiter/​waitress are always nice and very quick when you call them. Five stars indeed! I love this hole in the wall place!

Oh man I have childhood memories of always getting excited when my family said we were going to eat here! But instead about getting excited over banh cuon (their specialty), I get excited over this one particular noodle soup they have. #12… I just want to sing every time «reuniteeeed and it feels so gooood» ahaaaaa don’t judge guys.
SERVICE: The younger waiter acts like he doesn’t want to be there and is quite rude sometimes, but overall the older workers are nice and I feel THEY make up for the younger waiter’s poor attitude. So bravo!
DECOR: It’s not the most fanciest place to eat, but I definitely like this place. Mirror mirror on the walls, they got mirrors everywhere ya. And nuoc mam be everywhere too! Each table has a jar of it and other condiments. Small place, but has enough room for everyone :) they also have easy picture menus for ordering and they play nice calm viet music.
FOOD: #12 Hu tieu tom thit Tay ho (aka deliciousness in a bowl they say is «shrimp dry manoly rice noodles soup in special pork sauce») is the BOOOMB DOT COM Y’ALL. Not sure what manoly means though haha. But basically you get a bowl of this clear noodle with shrimp and a lot of other things and a bowl of soup and a small bowl of the special pork sauce… Put together and it’s heaven! My mom likes their banh cuon too. Can’t go wrong with #1. My dad also likes their desserts not sure what they’re called, just look at the fridge full of them and pick if you want one :)
OVERALL: I love their #12 I never really seen it at another viet place. Or at least I don’t have roaming eyes for another #12 ahaa could be the reason why I don’t see it at other places. Banh cuon is pretty good too. Nice mom and pop viet restaurant. I have to give this place a 5!

5 stars for their excellent service, but as for the food. I can’t lie. it’s not good!
their Vietnamese coffee, my mom makes it better at home.
Their banh Xeo, not tasty… the batter, is not good. the bean sprouts were not fully steamed, I only like steamed bean sprouts LIKE I’m used to while eating a Banh Xeo dish.
0.70 cents for tea.
Won’t be back.

I’ve been craving Banh Cuon for days now. Came back here with a friend for lunch and sadly was very disappointed. Today it tasted a bit off. Bot as flavorful as it should be. My friend also said it was a bit bland. There that goes off the grid with the cravings :/​Sighs* maybe will try again next time. Hopefully will taste much better~

I believe there have been some changes since my ³⁄₂₀₁₂ review of Tay Ho. The crumbled pork/​cloud ear fungus filling seemed as though it might be left overs from a few days back. The filling felt a bit «slimey» and a bit old, but not to the point of putrefaction.
The individual Banh Cuon flat rice pasta was still relatively thin, but the flat rice pasta seemed folded in half to double the thickness and this double layer was rolled several times around the Banh Cuon meat filling to produce an extra thick pasta layer.
I had to use my hands to unroll the flat rice pasta, and then work apart the two halves that were stuck together so that I finally had single sheets to use it to wrap the two types of steamed ground meat terrine/​pâté along with a bit of the steamed bean sprouts, raw julienned cucumbers & cilantro.
This was the only way I could figure out how to not have Banh Cuon with overly thick rice pasta sheets. This is time consuming & tedious. Wondering why they don’t go back to the old way where they used a single sheet to wrap around the ground meat filling, and leave you with more single sheets to be used as a wrapper for the other ingredients?
Also the Tempura Yam Sticks as well as the fritter with what seems like lentils were fried in rather over-​used and over fried oil which imparted a slightly rancid, old oil flavour as well as imparting muddled flavours from things that were fried previously in the oil. This was not so pronounced back in 2012.
Also ordered the Cha Gio or fried ‘Imperial Rolls”, and the skin of the rolls were soggy, limp, & oily with the old oil smell. The most exemplary Cha Gio was in two places: Cordon Bleu in San Francisco & Golden Deli in San Gabriel. For different reasons, they far outstrip the ones at Tay Ho. However, Tay Ho gives you tons of green lettuce & herbal greens which I don’t waste since the way to health is through mass ingestion of vegetables.
I hope that I caught Tay Ho on one of its «off days». Just want to add that the Nuoc Cham here is still amazingly subtle with an Umami that hasn’t been duplicated in other Vietnamese restaurants so far that I have encountered. I could take a bath in this since it’s so good.

Banh cuon’s the way to roll up a meal. Banh cuon is one my favorite vietnamese food and I’ve tried other banh cuon places in bay area and westminister.
The flour rolls were chewy and thick. good texture and not overly oiled. the pork fillings were chunky, but okay in flavor.
I got the #1 (banh cuon special) so it came with a lot of pork meatloaf slices and fried sweet potatoes with shrimp and fried mung bean roll. give it a generous pouring of fish sauce since theres a huge jar of it on each table. these rolls taste better sauced up!
banh tam bi (thick vermicilli noodles with coconut and fish sauce) was ok. i was surprised it came in a plate rather than a bowl since it can get messy. golden deli has better ones.
service by one waiter and is typical of other hole in wall asian places. wave your hand for service, the bill, more water, etc. a lot of vietnamese paintings on the wall and music to balance out your mood and appetite.
ton of parking in the plaza.

I came here to try out other Vietnamese food besides Phở, and i heard a lot about the Banh Cuon here. It was my first time ever trying Banh Cuon, and this place did not disappoint. It’s very different from the Chinese type that I’m used to. It doesn’t really have much meat or anything to fill up the rolls, but they do put other meat on top of it.
I also ordered the Phở because I was craving it at the time too. Their Phở selection is limited. It doesn’t have as much as other Phở places, and their portions are a lot tinier.
However, service here was great. One of the waiters was really nice too. My mom wanted to borrow a Chinese phone book to look up some numbers, and they were really nice to let her borrow it. And the waiter did all he can to help her too, which was great. The place is a bit tiny though, but they still had room when I came around 1−2pm. Plenty of parking. I’ll definitely come back just for the Banh Cuon.

Even though the seats and tables are quite sticky and even though there’s not really a waiting area except the curb outside the restaurant, I love me some banh cuon! I love that for just about $ 6 – 7, I get a whole mountain of food on a large dish, and that I feel full for the rest of the day even if I don’t finish the entire plate. Yum.
It just always takes so long for the food to come out, though… And the servers frequently forget requests.

This place specializes in banh cuon, a type of rolled rice cake from northern Vietnam. The one we got was banh cuon cha, cha gio, with banh tom. The banh tom (a sort of fried sweet potato with shrimp) was really interesting. But since I’ve never had it anywhere else, I can’t speak to how it compares. I liked it here though.
I will say the com suon thit nuong was not great. The charbroiled pork was really tough and something about the rice made it extremely hard after a few minutes. This is a pretty basic dish that’s good at a lot of Vietnamese places around town, so that was kind of a letdown.
It’s also not the cleanest place. This usually doesn’t bother me too much, but they gave us two types of menus: a newer, cleaner one with just text and a laminated one with pictures that looked like it was about ten years old. The laminated one was so filthy we had to use paper napkins to turn the pages, and then the napkins had dirt on them (come on guys, seriously?).
Cash only.

Banh Cuon yo! A fine Vietnamese dish. It’s just delicious.
Came here for the first time last week cause I did a quick Unilocal search and saw the words Banh Cuon. It’s not that common so I jumped at the chance to get some for lunch.
Place is kind of hidden, it’s like deep inside a plaza and you can’t see it from the street.
What I got was Banh Cuon Nhan Thit Cha Gio Nem Nuong (pic included). What that translates to (since this is my peoples) is there was meat inside the white stuff, came with egg rolls, and fried pork meat. I would definitely recommend this dish, especially since I drowned it in fish sauce (what DOESN’T become better with fish sauce?!). It was good. Place needs a little pizzaz since it kinda looks antiquated but besides that the food was good and the service was decent.

Would have given it a 4 star from my last experience, but it wasn’t what I had expected this time around. I got order 7B banh cuon with ground beef, shimp, and sweet potato. It tasted like it was aged food. I guess if you wanted to give this place a try, go to a different location.
The one dish that I did enjoy was the banh canh with gio heo (pig’s feet). The broth was very flavorful and they were generous with the amount of gio heo. I know the sound of pig’s feet sounds disgusting, but it is not bad at all. I will definitely be coming back for the banh canh during those cold winter nights.
The restaurant itself didn’t feel so clean. I had to wipe the table down a bit.
The employee was attentive. He was quick when we asked for a few things. The food came out fairly quickly too.

3.5 stars
I went here to eat with my famiLE today. First meal out since I’ve been back in SoCal.
We ordered the 4G and another plate of banh cuon with something fried with shrimp in it.
The nuoc mam is pretty good, and a lot more different than how my grandma makes it. It’s a little tangier and tastes great with their dishes.
Nuoc mam container also needed a refill — they should know that we basically inhale that shizzle once Vietnamese people get seated.
Our utensils didn’t feel too clean :(
I orderd Rau ma (pennyworth herb drink) — was pretty diluted and blehh tasting since it wasn’t sweetened.
But service is friendly and food is good.

Revisited this old favorite with a friend and the tiny mom and pop shop is as tasty as ever.
/​/​SERVICE /​/​Great service from a man in his 20−30s. Each time I have been here in the past few years, he is usually the only waiter/​bus boy working. He may be the owner’s son. He is always very sweet, prompt, and helpful.
/​/​FOOD /​/​
+ Banh cuon: Vietnamese rice noodles rolled up, topped with delish options, and drizzled with nuoc mam (Vietnamese dipping sauce). The menu options are endless here as far as combinations of banh cuon toppings with a picture menu to assist you. If you do not see an exact combination you like, you can mix and match. The banh cuon are all topped with steamed bean sprouts, cucumbers, and cilantro. My personal topping favorites are:
–Cha lua (Vietnamese pork loaf)
–Sweet potato tempura: Think of sweet potato fries fried into a big pancake
–Shrimp paste: Vietnamese sausage made of shrimp

I’ve never had Bánh cun before, but my friend was hungry so I tagged along. I’ve seen people eat it, but I just never ventured into the territory and tried it myself because I normally would get Phở or Bun Bo Hue if at a Vietnamese restaurant. However, seeing as this spot’s specialty was this, I went ahead and did it.
Bánh cun for anyone that doesn’t know, is rice noodle rolled with meat, fish, or what ever the place decides to put it in I guess. I had mine with eggrolls & yam fritters. Combined with their fish sauce which is in a large jar on the table with a small ladle (talk about home made) and fresh cucumber & bean sprouts, the meal was refreshing and delicious. Rice noodles alone is my all time favorite dish at dim sum, so to have it with a Vietnamese twist and it’s meat mixture was a treat!
While not a «hole in the wall», the joint is small and very popular in the plaza across from 888. Now that I know what it is, I’m a fan, and I highly recommend this spot for it!

A mom and pop shop that serves tasty, authentic banh cuon in SGV?! I’m sold! There aren’t too many places around the area where you can find delicious banh cuon, so after discovering this place on Unilocal,I was so stoked to try it out.
I ordered the #7, which was banh cuon with ground pork, pork roll, fried sweet potato and fried shrimp. Just as I had expected, it tasted like the banh cuon I used to eat back when I was a child. I also got to try the #1, which had banh cuon with ground pork, dried shrimp and plain. Out of all them, I’d say the ground pork is the tastiest and most flavorful.
While the dish looks impressively large, only half the plate is actually filled with the flour roll, and the other half is crowded with cucumbers and bean sprouts. I would have actually preferred more flour rolls.
The flour roll was delicious and flavorful, filled with sweet and savory ground pork and topped with a generous portion of pork roll. The fried sweet potato was pretty good, but I don’t really see the hype. And the fried shrimp? Well, considering that it was just one tiny piece of overcooked shrimp, I had to pass on that one. Don’t forget to add some of that fish sauce on top! As pungent as it may smell, once you get past that, you’ll find that the mild and sweet taste really complements the dish.
There are two different menus, one with just words and descriptions and one with pictures of all the dishes. Both were useful, as deciding what to get was sort of difficult at first. There are different types of flour rolls that they serve; some dishes are with ground pork, others with dried shrimp or plain with nothing inside.

THREE THINGS: banh cuon, fish sauce & a picture menu
This is all you need to know to dine at this Vietnamese establishment. They are known for their banh cuon (rice paper rolls, filled with or w/​o meat).
The Banh Cuon dish (#1A or 1B)
is served with:
— banh cuon (rice paper rolls, with or w/​o meat)
— slices of Vietnamese «meatloaf»
— veggies (julienne cucumbers, bean sprouts)
— deep-​fried sweet potato
— some other deep-​fried bread thing (w/​green bean and shrimp)
***Add some fish sauce and hot sauce liberally, and you’ll have an awesome meal***
Aside from the awesome banh cuon, their rice dishes
and a dish that I’m not sure how to pronounce; you order your desired meat
(i.e. egg rolls, shrimp, etc) and wrap it with rice stick sheets, veggies
(lettuce, cucumber, mint, etc), and add fish sauce to taste. You could call it an Asian taco lol.
They’ve added a variety of beef noodle soup to their menu, but I don’t want to deviate from the already awesome food that they’re known for.
NOTE:
— cash only
— it gets crowded during the lunch hour, sign in on the clipboard at the door
— portions are large, 3 people can share 2 dishes
— you might be tempted to drink the fish sauce since it’s kept in pitchers on the table, but it’s NOT soup or dessert! (true story, a nube drank it thinking that it would be rude to not finish it!)