Worst Meal Ever…

📍Address: Secret Garden

158 Pasteur, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam

We will kick off the food content with the bad stuff. This place was very highly raved on Lemon8. But it was NOT FOR US😭😭😭

Here’s a review of all that we ordered:

1. Watermelon/Mango/Passionfruit Juices

🏷️ 65k each, ⭐⭐⭐

It was alright. Have quite a sweet tooth and the drinks tasted like nothing so we added the sugar syrup they provided.

2. Egyptian Spinach with Ground Fried Crab Soup

🏷️ 105k, ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (pic 3)

Spinach was good, soup was tasty, the “ground” crab was really grounded cause with every bite I can taste the crab shell🤡 (think of egg shells in omelettes)

3. Stir fried with Charsiew & Lotus Seed

🏷️ 135k, ⭐️⭐️

Rice was hard af, practically biting uncooked rice 😭

4. Steamed Rice

🏷️ 15k, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

At least they didn’t fk up plain rice 🤡

5. Braised back ribs with Lemongrass

🏷️ 95k, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (pic 4)

Pork was cooked really well, portion quite small and not much meat tho….

6. Grilled Pork rolled with Rice Paper & Veggies

🏷️ 150k, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (pic 5)

YUMS! Best thing there. Really juicy, no complaints

7. Vietnamese pancakes with pork

🏷️ 115k, ⭐️ (pic 6)

The pancake was paper thin and there were only a few tiny pieces of pork in that mountain of raw veges 💀

8. Mixed rolls

🏷️ 250k, ⭐️⭐️ (pic 7)

I took a bite of the prawn roll (pic 8), chewed a few bites and spit that shit out 🫠 It tasted like wasabi or something equivalent (this girl can’t handle spice🤡)

And the raw veges in the others😭😭😭

Only the fried and beef rolls were edible. We also just ate the prawn/pork on top of the greens cause we just cannot.

The conclusion is we are not suitable for Vietnamese cuisine. We ended up having Korean and Italian further on. We did also try Pho and Bahn Mi but none were as awful as this place 😭 To get to this restaurant also required A LOT OF STAIRS (5th floor i believe), it’s a nono from all 3 of us.

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