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    Lam's Vietnamese Restaurant

    4.2 (173 reviews)
    ModerateVietnamese
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    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    The soda cooler for takeout and has kimchi.
    Celia P.

    This place must be well known by the locals, I was surprised to find it as busy as it was at 3:30 pm on a Friday afternoon. Pho is good, I like that when I order the rare round steak it comes out I can add it to my bowl myself. The waitress/hostess was attentive and fast. She never left and dirty dish site as soon as people were done eating she was picking up the dishes and wiping the tables down. It has a small parking lot for maybe 6 cars, put there is plenty of street parking if you don't mind that. Very clean and quiet, I enjoy this kind of atmosphere.

    We went to Lam Restaurant. Customer service was good. Food was horrible our fried rice can our very plain, very hard as it was made out of very old rice sitting in the counter for day. My son even stated that the rice was burnt and pick out burnt rice grain. Bun bo hue was very disappointed as it doesn't seem more like a clear broth vermicelli noodle instead. Both pho and bun Bo hue had just couple slices of meat in it only. This was not the first time but second time. Sadly we won't be giving this place a third try again.

    Vegan spring rolls
    Monique' M.

    I had the vegan pho and vegan rolls. The vegan rolls are huge, I only really needed one as an appetizer. The rolls were very good, especially with the dipping sauce, but the vegan pho was just ok. I have had better vegan phos with more flavorful broths. Overall, I appreciate a restaurant in Sioux Falls offering a vegan dedicated menu and would eat here again.

    Sampler platter
    Koren G.

    Flavors were good. Sampler platter came with two sauces. Sweet and sour and peanut. Peanut was a little too liquidity but alright. Sweet and sour was good but they gave you so little of it. Only one waitress and service was very slow. Glad we got there when we did. Only three tables. Got busier when we were leaving. I didn't get a picture of the Cornish hen combo. It was really good. The meat was very tender. Soup was flavored well.

    Egg Rolls. Extra $2 for  lettuce cups ?
    Steve L.

    Saw the ratings and thought it shouldn't be too bad. I was disappointed but I have to understand the choices are limited in this city and state. Coming from Southern California with a huge Vietnamese community and so many choices to choose from this restaurant will have a hard time to compete with. Pricing is a tad overpriced. The Pho combo just lacks too little choices of beef. What I normally are offered compared to their price point for the combo comes with a larger serving of noodles with rare steak, bigger flank steak, beef brisket,tendon,tripe and for a little more money some beef balls. The beef ball they offer equates to a single Meatball sliced to little pieces. Normally my added offer of Meatballs in my city are 3 Meatballs halfed. Granted their soup base was ok but is not great. The spring roll was a sad offering. It was basically frozen egg rolls. The size is small and the taste was lacking. I found it parcular that it didn't come with the lettuce without charge like every Vietnamese places I've been to. $2 extra charge for 4 small leafs of lettuce ? It was not served with the mint leave and veggie together which it normally does in other places I've been to. It was really too pricey for the lack of quality and quantity. Sorry South Dakotains you are missing out on what a real good quality Vietnamese Pho and egg rolls are. I did not try the other offerings in their menu.

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    C. S.

    Wonderful :) out here for work. Always try to find a good Vietnamese spot. This was worth the drive. Friendly staff. Prompt service & the food was awesome. Love finding vegan/vegetarian friendly restaurants :) bought a jar of their chili oil, excited ;)

    Spicy Pho with beef
    Chris W.

    This was our first true Vietnamese experience. We've been reading about how amazing the Pho is at Lam's and we agree that part of the meal was very delicious. However this rating is on the overall meal and experience. We ordered a variety of things to share which includes spicy Pho, ginger chicken platter, and appetizers of Bun Bao, fried pork rolls, spring roll and Chicken Banh Mi sandwich. The Bun bao was ok, could have had more flavor. The shrimp spring roll was not very good and the peanut sauce was sub par. I have had better sauce out of a jar. The banh mi was decent although it Needed a mayo or sauce or something. Not a lot of flavor. Fried pork rolls were great! The Spicy Sauce that arrived with them was excellent! So while the appetizers overall were average, the two main meals were very good! The flavor, texture and consistency of the rice were very good on the chicken platter was very good! Ginger Chicken was great! And then there was Pho. Overall a great bowl of soup. Beef could have had more flavor and the noodles were frustrating to try and eat as they kept slipping off the fork, but the broth was excellent! Could drink that stuff all day. One disappointing aspect of our meal was that we had asked for chop sticks and small bowls when we ordered and never got them. It made eating soup from a plate more challenging which took away from the overall experience.' Maybe it was a bad day in the kitchen, maybe their apps aren't supposed to be packed with flavor, I won't discourage people from going to try it out, but it may be awhile before I rush back.

    Awesome spicey pho!! Love the shrimp spring rolls  as well ....great service !!

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    Great food and friendly people! I always get the sampler , pho and iced coffee. The bun bao is also one of my favorites

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    9 months ago

    This is the best Pho in town. The perfect comfort food! I really enjoy the Pho Thai, and my partner loved their beef and rice dish.

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    10 months ago

    Best Vietnamese food in town-- no question. Try the spicy pho with skinny noodles and you'll understand what I'm talking about.

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    Soup is great meat but so much people are very nice spring rolls are great but I wouldn't advise getting the meat

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    I thoroughly enjoyed the spicy pho from here. Would 100% recommend especially in a cold day!

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    4.3(17 reviews)
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    New Pho Thai on east side too off of 10th Street. I love Pho Thai...all three sites. I lived n…read moreBangkok for three years and I finally have a restaurant where I can enjoy authentic Thai cuisine at its best! On top of that, the service was supreme. Today at the east side location,. Several of my lunch partners had questions about several items on the menu and our server was very knowledgeable and patient. It was obvious he loved his job! Definitely try Pho Thai!

    One of the problems with being fortunate enough to travel to many places around the world is that…read moreeventually you become spoiled. You begin to recognize what authentic and distinctive flavors are actually supposed to taste like. And unfortunately, you also become very aware when something simply doesn't quite hit the mark. Pho Thai is quite popular in Sioux Falls and now has several locations around the city, so naturally my husband and I wanted to give it a try. Sioux Falls is still developing its international food scene compared to places like Phoenix, where we previously lived, so we are always hopeful when we hear good things about a local spot. The experience overall was unfortunately pretty underwhelming. The food wasn't terrible, but most of it felt very middle-of-the-road and lacked the distinctive flavor profiles that make Thai and Vietnamese cuisine so memorable. We tried a variety of dishes along with appetizers like the pot stickers, which were perfectly edible, but fairly generic overall. Some of the food throughout the meal seemed either slightly underdone or overdone, which made the kitchen execution feel inconsistent. The noodles themselves were fine, but again, nothing really stood out. That's honestly the recurring issue we had with most of the meal: nothing was actively offensive, but almost nothing made us excited either. It felt less like carefully crafted regional cuisine and more like food designed to play things very safely. I think if you have limited exposure to Thai or Vietnamese food, especially in smaller Midwestern cities, you may enjoy this place much more than we did. For Sioux Falls, it is probably considered one of the better available options. But for us, after experiencing truly wonderful versions of these cuisines in larger cities and abroad, this just didn't compare. Still searching for that authentic spark over here. Nonetheless, the restaurant was clean, busy, and satisfactory enough for a casual meal. Just not somewhere we'd personally rank very highly.

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