This hidden gem is in a plaza in Oslo Sentrum and we loved our experience. Their motto is Good…read moreFood, Good Times and Good Vibes! Service was great and if you order take out you can save a few kroner. The pho broth is nice and fatty. The meat with the bun dish was very tasty. The bubble tea was nice especially if you like strong tea. We will be back!

From the owner: Mama Pho - the authentic Vietnamese cuisine in Oslo…read more Mama just made it the right way. Noodle - Vietnamese Ph Baguette - Vietnamese Bánh Mì mamapho.no @mamapho.oslo

Above-average Vietnamese food with a way-above-average price tag. If you need a Viet food fix, you…read morecan definitely get it here, but dang it's expensive (I'm from the US). A bowl of pho is like $20 but that seems to be about the going rate in Europe. Beware this place can get super packed during peak hours so try to plan around that. Otherwise, I'd say this place is actually pretty good!

Best pho in Oslo! The service was great and hospitable. It was also nice ordering from actual…read moreVietnamese people after being in mainly European speaking countries. We were seated quickly and had time to look at the menu before ordering. My fiancé ordered the Pho bo (beef) and I ordered the pho ga (chicken). It's a little different from the usual pho we order because they include meatballs in pho bo (which normally would be a separate type of order) and the pho ga had marinated chicken. The broth was light and savory, with much of the flavor coming from the meat. It was so flavorful!! We also ordered the summer roll, a usual appetizer everywhere we go, which was packed well and had eggs and a tiny egg roll! I haven't had it like this anywhere else (not even back at home). It was also a great dish to start with before the main dish! The place can get pretty crowded but every time we've gone in we have been lucky to beat the dinner and lunch rush.

What a hidden gem! This restaurant has fresh and delicious food, and it was really nicely plated…read more We were a group of 6 and had the Yin & Yang Bao, Tempura salad and Chicken Satay for starters, and the Confusion Duck, Pho, Crispy Noodles, Hurry Curry, the Mix Grill, the Volcano maki and the Oishi maki for mains. And talk about the desserts, wow! They looked so good on those plates, we had to try all three of them. Absolutely recommended!!

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OMG, I'm so in love with this place. The foods is phenomenal. Every single dish I take so fresh &…read moreyummy. I'm highly recommend this restaurant for everyone if you have chance visiting Norway. I'm definitely com back

Great little place. The front doesn't look like much, but once you go inside, it's small, quaint,…read moreand A/C free, so you might not want to frequent it on a warm night. The day we were there was limited menu, just the Pho. Still it was excellent, with rich broth. The meat was cut a bit thicker than I'm used to, but very tender. The Vietnamese coffee was outstanding. Not sure how it fares against the other top Vietnamese eatery, but we enjoyed our meal!

I was walking casually down in Torshov when I felt a disturbance in the Force. A new Vietnamese…read morerestaurant has just opened in town. I couldn't resist a takeaway banh mi, and was pleasantly surprised to see not one, but SEVEN different banh mi. The charsiu banhmi was proper: crunchy baguette, zingy filling, hoisin sauce and cilantro. This dig showed promises. So yesterday I had a proper sit-down affair. The crispy duck was true to its crispiness and delicious if a bit heavy on the ginger. The wonton soup and the seafood in satay sauce (a rather unusual combination) checked out okay. The seafood tasted freshly prepared, still had a good snap to it, not drenched in sauce for hours on end. It would be even better with less ginger and bamboo shoots, but I'm nitpicking. It was a good deal, 2-course meal for 200 kr. It's not a pure Vietnamese per se. It's a pan-Asian restaurant with a rather generic menu. Normally that is a death sentence, but this is an exception because they cook everything better than standard Asian restaurants of Oslo. Apart from the lack of heat (can be fixed by a dollop of Sriracha), the spices are quite alright, and it's officially added to my honorable list of "great cheap eats".

Excellent excellent pho!!! One of the best I have so far in Oslo…read more Definitely need to come back again. Hub tried their crispy duck egg noodle soup. That was a bit average. The best crispy grill duck egg noodle soup I ever had in Oslo was from Best Friends & Sushi but it closed down due to refurbishment of the building

I'm always on the lookout for delicious Asian food in Europe so whenever I see a joint like this, I…read morehave to try it out. I wanted to like Bánh Mì Cousins, but alas their product fell short to me. Basically, their sandwiches could've been better. The baguettes weren't fresh and there was not a lot of meat. Oh well.

For the price, in Oslo, this is a solid stop. I had the no. 2, chicken bahn mi. Good portion and…read morenot pre-made like a lot of delis. Everything seemed fresh and service was quick. Only complaint is that they were out of more than a few sandwiches... I didn't have much choice.

Pho tasted like instant pho from a package you buy at the supermarket. It was very obvious the…read morenoodles are not from fresh banh pho but rather from dried noodles. Was not good at all. The broth also tasted artificial and almost no flavor. I am Vietnamese and have had pho across the multiple states and countries and this was definitely one of the worst. The duck salad on the other hand was very good. It had a good seasoning and the duck meat itself was good, although small sized strips. The restaurant itself was very nice looking. Decor and atmosphere was welcoming. It was a little hard to find since it is inside the shopping center. Managed by Vietnamese lady. The service was below standard. There was only one lady managing the restaurant when we were there. She was nice until we mentioned we needed separate checked then she clearly got frustrated. I admit we should have told her beforehand so that is not all fault. However in the service industry it is not ok to display those reactions to customers. The duck salad came out in good time. The pho came out much later, and we noticed other tables got their pho before ours even though we arrived earlier (according to my friend--I did not pay close attention to this). If you want real pho go to Lille Saigon. If you want a place with a good location on a tourist street, and nice restaurant setting, but don't care about pho, then this place might do the trick for you. I'm really surprised at all the other positive reviews...they must not have had the pho.

Love the beef rice noodles soup or "phô" here. We also tried the dry rice noodles, and Vietnamese…read morespring rolls. All very nice. I also love the salad that came with the spring rolls, it's fresh and went well with the sweet sauce that came with it. Good experience of Vietnamese dishes in Oslo!

Viet Nam House completes a trio of vietnamese restaurant in the area, but unfortunately it is the…read moreleast impressive of the three. There were alarm bells as I came in - a full bar (unless it's an upscale restaurant, Asian dives should be all about food, and not a damn about drinks).. and big groups of customers but lacking in Asians, always a bad omen in an Asian eatery.. Then it dawned to me that the name "Viet Nam House" sounds exactly like the generic name an inexperienced diner would go to ("Hei Asgeir, do you want to try 'Vietnamese' food? I think I saw a place once called Viet Nam House.") But let's drop the prejudice and give it a fair shake. I have a particular set mind when I want a Pho - a true test of a Vietnamese restaurant - rich, beefy broth, delicate balance of herbs and spices, but beefy. Thinly sliced raw beef that cooks in that very hot broth. What they serve is a weak broth, way too sweet, very dark, with thick chunks of beef. It's not tasteless, it's just not a good pho. (Norway being expensive, I ate all of it up anyway lol). It is at least a notch below the phos of the two other vietnamese around. Combined with a disappointment of another dish, a stir-fry chicken and vegetables, then I give this place a very weak 2 star. What's up with Norway's infatuation of wok dishes with huge chunks of onions anyway? The chicken stir-fry is instead a sloppy pot of bamboo shoot/quartered onions/paprika. It's a little better than average Norwegian-Asians go, so I'll give it a 1.5-star.

Best meal experience during my Norway weekend. After obstacle coursing ourselves exhausted at Oslo…read moreSommerpark, we came here for Pho and Tom Kha served from the same place. Both were excellent, but what blew us away was the speed and quality of service. Plates were being fired our way from the kitchen immediately, servers were responsive and polite while dealing with the rest of a fairly busy restaurant. It's also worth mentioning that Tom Kha is my very favorite soup and theirs leaves nothing to be desired. I tried my friends pho and felt the same. I highly recommend checking this place out. All four of us were grateful for the great food and service after an exhausting day.

The decoration in the restaurant is very nice. If you are going for ambience, this is the place…read moreto go. If you are going for food, I think there are better place for the price. We ordered the 4 course meal set with rice. Rice a bit too wet for me. Maybe it was the rice they used. I generally prefer thai jasmine rice. 1. Crispy duck with crepes The duck is quite dry. I had better ones in Best Friend, Dinner and Chi restaurant. 2. Seafood in special sauce This dish is nice. The sauce is more sweet than savory. I quite enjoyed it especially that it has two different types of mushrooms. 3. Beef tenderloin in special sauce The beef is very tender. I feel that it is using the same sauce as the previous dish. 4. Pana cotta and lemon sorbet Worst dish out of all. Pana cotta was like dry paste. Not sure it was steamed too long or what. I feel like I was eating sweet cement paste. Overall quite pricey for the food quality but ok price if you want nice quiet tasteful ambience to enjoy dinner.

I am extremely happy to see a Banh Mi joint finally in Oslo in the form of Miss Gin. A very popular…read morefood trend today is Asian fusion, but the Vietnamese has been doing this way before it became fashionable. The banh mi is a perfect example of Vietnamese fusion. A banh mi basically combines French baguette and Asian fillings. It is really the embodiment of East meets West, which Vietnamese cuisine is famous for. I myself am a big fan of Vietnamese cuisine and was very eager to try out Miss Gin. My wife and I decided to try Miss Gin after seeing excellent reviews on Yelp. We both ordered the Chasiu (roast red pork) banh mi as we both love chasiu. I must say, it was love at first bite! The baguette was crunchy on the outside and chasiu was sweet and savory. Being Vietnamese, flavors were balanced with pickled carrots and radish, bit of heat from the seasoned fish sauce, and freshness from the cucumber and cilantro (koriander). Miss Gin is a perfect example of how to stay true to one type of cuisine and doing it well. Although Miss Gin is a relatively small take out restaurant, their choice to showcase Vietnamese street food and banh mi fits their profile. Prices are extremely fair for Norway food prices. Vietnam was trully highlighted in their food selection and I look forward to trying out the other banh mi selections and spring rolls.

WOW! Being from Seattle I know my Asian cuisine, I eat it constantly and know what's good and what…read moreisn't. Miss Gin is legit! Miss Gin is a tiny little hole in the wall on Thorvald Meyers Gate. I hopped on in and browsed the cold and hot case curiously. I saw something called pig ear salad that was almost interesting enough to buy and take home, maybe next time. I ended up ordering the pork banh mi to go. It took about 10 minutes or so, which went by quickly while sitting on their comfy stools (I am short so they were just the right height). While waiting I saw pictures on the wall of other items on the menu... the fresh rolls look really good! I plan on ordering those next time. I took my banh mi to go and nestled it in my sack hoping it'd stay warm on the hike home. It's aroma tempted me on my journey and I was happy to see that it was still warm when I unwrapped it in my kitchen. Miss Gin does a great job on the bread, it's delicious, I am not sure if they bake it in house or order it in, but I did see him toast it in the oven, so it had a pleasant crunch. The mayo, to meat, to pickled veggie ratios were spot on! The meat was really really flavorful, I am not sure what spices or marinade were involved but it was so good. I polished off the whole thing, send a picture to my husband, and bragged I had an amazing banh mi in Norway! I can't wait to go back!