Viet Cajun

Feb 1, 2024

I LOVE this place....CONSISTENTLY GOOD. today, I got chicken pho, shrimp spring rolls, and pork bahi mi...EXCELLENT!

Sooo much flavor...Yummy

Yummers! Get in line, order at the counter and they bring your food up your table. This place stays busy so expect some sort of line. Long,short, whatever.
I had the boiled shrimp. The seasoning had just the right amount of "kick". Well cooked, not chewy. He had a burger, which he referred to as "pretty damn good". Plentiful servings and great flavor! Overall they good a job of keeping the place clean, there is a small outdoor seating area, and only 1 bathroom for customers.

BYOB!! Enough said. LoL

I really like this place! Good portions and everything was delicious.

Fresh seafood off the Gulf coast with shrimp poboys, fried oysters and yummy Vietnamese pho soups and banh mi sandwiches.

Couldn't have asked for a better meal.
Counter service and food gets brought to your table. Casual dining, no nonsense spot. Bottles waters are sold, for some reason I don't recall them giving regular water, maybe I'm remembering incorrectly but that stuck out for some reason.

Anyway - great place, check our if you're in the area.

Unique concept with a nice selection of options that range from burgers, PoBoys, vermicelli, Pho, and crawfish. I enjoyed the shrimp Poboy. It was a foot long length sub that had plenty of shrimp. It included crinkle fries. I also enjoyed a delicious Thai tea. The location is on the Seawall and next to a neat kite shop. Service was very quick.

Placed an order on the phone, and it was ready 15 mins later. We ordered the shrimp boil and pork banh mi. The bread in the banh mi was sooooo soft on the inside and crunch on the outside- definitely some of the best banh mi bread I've had. The sandwich was also huge and flavorful. We will be making this a regular place to go to when we're in Galveston!

My girlfriend and I were starving and wanted to grab something tasty that was nearby so we decided to give takeout from Viet Cajun a try.

I called to place an order and the phone rang for quite a while. I had put the phone down and let it keep ringing while chatting with my girlfriend and to my surprise a few minutes later I actually heard a sound coming from the phone when someone actually picked up. I placed my order over the phone, two entrees and a side, and was a little taken aback when the employee told me the total would be $40.02. Looking back at what we ordered I really wish I had gotten a receipt because that math does not add up.

When I arrived to pick up my order it went pretty smoothly. The place was decently clean and the cashier I dealt with was nice. When I got home the food was still very hot and the portions were huge. I can somewhat understand an increase in price due to the portion size but the total I paid for the meal still seems outrageous.

The food itself was pretty good. I would classify it as comfort food and since we were starving it really hit the spot. The only issue is I personally feel as if the dishes lacked the quality taste to justify the high price point.

While this meal was good in the moment, looking at the total on my credit card I am suffering from buyer's remorse. I feel like if I wanted comfort food I could have had an equal if not better meal for about a quarter of the price elsewhere.

My mom and I ordered 6 oyster basket and a charbroiled pork vermicelli bowl. There was a bit of a wait just since there were several people ahead of us. But the food came out still piping hot and fresh. Oysters were big, juicy, and crispy, and the pork was very good too. I've been here several times as my go-to place for fried oysters in Galveston for both the price and quality.

Only downside is that they don't serve tap water. You have to buy a drink or bottle water.

We ate here last year while in Galveston and were looking forward to being back this year. Pho is great, happy to serve it with extra sprouts in place of noodles. They have an amazing Bahn Mi too but we didn't order that yet this year. We started off with Pho. We'll be back. :-)

I came in for lunch on Saturday with a group of 5 of us and the majority wanted Crawfish. We ordered a huge bowl. They only sell drinks like bottled water or iced tea or cans of soda. No ice or cups. The crawfish are served up in a huge stainless steel bowl, which works out great because after they are gone there is a lots of liquid spice remaining. You are also given a basket for the crawfish remains and a roll of thin paper toweling to wipe off your hands and mouth as you eat. You will use lots of these. Wet wipes would have been great to have. There is only one bathroom and it's always occupied so it's really hard to clean up after a messy meal like mud bugs.

Everyone enjoyed the flavor and the spice level on the crawfish. The real kicker was how uncomfortably HOT and stuffy it was inside the restaurant. I don't know if the owners are too cheap to turn down the A/C to cool off the restaurant or if it wasn't working but there were no fans whatsoever. I don't care how good the food may taste, but it was way too hot to eat spicy food in a stuffy hot restaurant. Those that ventured to dig in literally had sweat poring down their face and all over their body.

This is our favorite spot for great food when we visit Galveston. They have great specials, but our favorite go-to items are the combo plates of fried fish and shrimp with/ your choice of fried rice or French fries. Both are great choices. Their customer service is great! Always welcoming and friendly and the dining area is always clean and ready to serve. Not a noisy place, great for dining in or take out. I wish I had photos to share, but we ate our food so fast LOL Maybe next time I'll remember to take a pic!