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Thai Son
Category: Restaurants Vietnamese Vietnamese [Edit]
2800 1st Ave EVancouver, BC V5M 4P1
Neighbourhood: Hastings-Sunrise
(604) 255-6436
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Noise Level:
- Quiet
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
12 reviews for Thai Son
12 reviews in English
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Review from Michael C.
Vancouver, BC
2/7/2011 2 Check-ins Here
$7.50 for Lemongrass chicken with shredded pork, and sunny side up egg FTW! Definitely one of my top places for it!
Come with free soup, but I don't really drink it lol.
The chicken was very juicy, tender and rich in flavour. They pan friend an egg for you that's just perfectly round lol. I think they use one of those novelty mini egg pans. (http://s9.thisnext.com...).
Great service during their busy lunch hour rush. They claim, they are authentic Vietnamese restaurant, judging by the dirty menus... yes they are. I'm not Vietnamese, so don't take my word for it! lolListed in: Pho 'eva!
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Review from Alison T.
Burnaby, BC
1/23/2011
I hardly eat Vietnamese food since I'm usually sick of how much of it I ate growing up but whenever I crave it, I will head to Thai Son.
Don't expect much for decor or ambiance, you come here to eat and leave, not to admire the place.
It gets pretty busy during lunch hour but the place is fairly spacious so you won't have to wait long for a seat.
I love and will only order the rice dishes here. I would say it's the best in Vancouver and don't even bother trying it anywhere else. They serve the usual dishes but with broken rice like it's supposed to be served and in an extremely fair portion. Depending on what you get (grilled pork or chicken) they all come with fish sauce and veggies (cucumber, tomato, and lettuce). My favourite has the fried egg on top with shredded and grilled pork.
And as other reviewers said, it's cash only. -
Review from Edward L.
Used to come over all the time back in tha day, but stopped for a couple of years until today.
Parking is ample as this location is part of a giant 2-storey strip mall.
The inside for some reason smells like.. stagnant water. It's the smell I'd associate with mops and those rubbery kitchen gloves. Eww..
The fried chicken on rice is decent, but nothing special. The salad was not too fresh (soggy vegetables), and the chicken had this huge strip of fat attached and was also a bit soggy. But the rice and soup were decent. Maybe it just sat for a bit before the waiter brought it over.
Their spring rolls were a bit weird. They were more "Chinese-style" than "Vietnamese-style". The filling was packed quite densely, but the fried skin really tasted like something straight out of a dim sum joint. Again, not what I was expecting to get at a Vietnamese place at all.
I wish I could give this place 3 stars, but unfortunately it has now slipped in my books. The thing is that that the Richmond location is totally awesome, and the other Vancouver location (Broadway + Kingsway) is half-decent too. You may want to try those ones instead. -
Review from samuel a.
Vancouver, BC
10/3/2009 1 Check-in Here
I am on some real mean obsessive streak on Vietnamese rice dishes.
It's so ridiculous that I'll go overboard with my ordering. Before I'd order a small pho with a side (a regular portion really) of lemongrass chicken and maybe some spring rolls.
Now that I've gotten away from Pho (ramen is so much better), I load my rice dishes up with "extras." Extra lemongrass chicken, extra egg, extra porkchop, extra rice - that type of thing.
On this trip to Thai Son it was just your run of the mill lemongrass chicken with grilled porkchop, and the portion was above average and taste was well above average. Good food! Inside it's old, sunglass bright, and like most pho places diveish, but it's good. I just wish it was open later than 10 p.m. -
Review from Marc D.
Vancouver, BC
12/29/2008
Was trying to get lunch at Song Huong but failed to find non iced over parking and ended up in the covered parking for the T&T market to find food. Ventured into Thai Son as it looked crowded.
Not sure why Yelp has this listed as a Thai restaurant - but I've submitted a correction so hopefully it won't be for long as this is a typical Vancouver type Vietnamese restaurant. I ordered by favourite test dish: Pho Tai Gan.
The rare beef was as I like it - very rare. It also was very flavourful, almost of the quality you find at Pho Trang An. The tendon was also the gelatinous type (the kind I like), although I wish there was more of it. They were very generous with the noodles, and they were cooked al dente as I like. The condiment plate had very fresh basil, deseeded jalapeno slices, hot bean sprouts (I actually prefer them raw), and lemon (I prefer lime). The broth itself was a bit greasier than I like, but had good flavour.
Service was friendly, but it took a while for the pho to arrive.
Overall if I was looking for pho with covered parking I would return. When the weather gets better I would probably just go down the street in either direction to Song Huong or up to Kingsway and hit my favourite Pho Trang An. -
Review from Lisa P.
10/29/2009
I have been trying out Vietnamese restaurants in Vancouver in hopes of finding something above average. So far, Thai Son ranks in the middle of the pack.
I ordered the shredded pork with spring rolls on vermicelli. Nothing special here other than the portion size. I really don't understand why when ordering take-out, they give you the pork mixture cold, wrapped up in plastic wrap, separate from the rest of the vermicelli/veggies. Maybe someone reading this can explain. I've never seen that until I moved here to Vancouver. The spring rolls were pretty tasty. Thai Son puts whatever that green herb that tastes like black licorice in their dishes. I hate that herb. Yuck. So this meal wasn't one of my favorites.
Service was very friendly and quick.
I will most likely return here to try something else that hopefully won't be cold & come wrapped in plastic wrap. Wish me luck! -
Review from Steven N.
Vancouver, BC
1/28/2010
Being Vietnamese myself, I've had my range of Vietnamese food ranging from the wonders of Southern California Vietnamese food to the real rural dirty Vietnamese food in Vietnam.
Thai Son, I must say, is pretty decent for what you can get here in Vancouver. Forget the pho and stereotypical spring rolls, its specialty is in its rice plates.
To be a truly authentic, the rice must be in the form of 'broken rice'. If you look carefully, the rice grains are actually half the size of what you would normally see and that's exactly the type of rice grain that is required for an authentic Vietnamese rice dish.
Add in the lemongrass chicken, pork, shredded pork and some 'nuoc mam' (fish sauce, doesn't sound tasty but it's so good) and you have yourself an excellent Vietnamese rice dish.
Let me know what you think. -
Review from Simon K.
I remember when they opened acouple years ago I was real happy that there would be one right around my house. I loved to go to their first location, on Broadway, and now this just made it easier and more convineint to go to.
The one thing that I do come here for is the spicy soup that they put in their pho. You have to request it when you order, and it definately ads a little zing to a regular bowl of pho. Since they started opening up more stores around town it feels more like a chain restaurant than from how they started. Based on that, they are probably one of the better "pho" chains in the lower mainland.
I will come here every so often, as it is located right in the First Avenue Marketplace, and just due to being able to shop for groceries afterwards. Definately on the plus side is the location. -
Review from Rebecca R.
Vancouver, BC
11/5/2009
So I went to this pumpkin carving party and somehow we got onto the topic of Pho (my latest obsession). I was then invited to meet up with friends for their weekly Pho.
It was nice cold day, perfect for Pho. We had to wait for a table to open up but as soon as we sat down, hot tea was delivered.
As per usual, I ordered the Beef Pho and Salad Rolls. These rolls were interesting because aside from the shrimp they also had pork inside them. The dipping sauce was amazing!! We also ordered the spring rolls - again delicious.
Even though I ordered the small soup, it was too big to finish. But very delicious. This was also my first time having iced coffee. My first sip was overpowering - but I quickly developed a taste for it. By the end i was chewing on the ice cubes to ensure that not a single drop was wasted.
Make sure to take cash with you - it's the only thing they accept. -
Review from Elsa C.
Burnaby, BC
5/26/2011 1 Check-in Here
I love their rice dishes here. You can't go wrong with less than $10 to get you filled to the top! AND they open pretty late too!
Don't expect great service, just expect decent food and Bob's your uncle. -
Review from Janine L.
Vancouver, BC
3/23/2009
Was here this weekend. Craving not Pho (pho from Thai Son is usually better at the broadway location) but com (rice dishes).
I ordered the lemongrass chicken shredded beef on broken rice - usually came with soup, but I guess they altered the menu. It was really good. The lemongrass chicken is so awesome there. My boyfriend ordered the pork and beef version of my dish, they were also very very well marinated.
When you feel like vietnamese food, but don't want noodles in soup, try the bun (vermicelli noodles), and com (rice dishes). They are even better than pho sometimes! -
Review from Tim Y.
9/1/2010
Authentic good Vietnamese but in a crowded Asian strip mall. Not much ambience (none actually), but if you're coming for the food than who cares, right? I visited their Broadway store and it has a much cooler vibe but pretty much the same food.
