Okay, maybe that's a weird beginning to a review of a restaurant, but they have the yummiest home-made yogurt (active culture!). And they give it to you for free.
So while it's a typical Vietnamese restaurant in the area (minimal furnishing, fast, cheap, back-to-basics, like many others in U-District), we go there for yogurt.
Their food is decent and cheap. Their pho and rice vermicelli dishes are always comforting and fresh, and the rice dishes are also nice comfort foods (fried egg on top is a nice touch) - and at the price tag of about $5-6 per meal (the sandwiches are like $2 but they are not very exciting - it's mostly just the meat of your choice and cilantro in a baguette), you can't help but to feel like the ladies there are your surrogate moms away from home.
The food may not be the best in town while they are consistent and yummy for the price, but then, they appear with a little Styrofoam cup of home-made yogurt, complimentary, at the end of your meal. I make yogurt at home, but somehow theirs is smoother. Who doesn't love a free dessert? And it's even healthy!
So if you can't convince your significant other to go out some night, just say "it's for your intestinal health http://www.healthcastle.com/yogurt-probiotics-benefits.shtml , honey". You'll be glad you didn't settle for a store-bought Dannon.
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