Taste Home, well tastes like home. It's pretty no frills but priced well. You can get a 3 item…read morebento for a good price and it's a lot of food - soup, rice, egg + 3 generous scoops of your choice. They have around 12-16 items in the hot line and you just choose whatever you want. I got two boxes to go for my wife and I and there's some good and bad. A bit on the greasier side than what we would prefer but potato eggplant, shredded chicken and vegetables and tofu stir fry were all decent. Green beans were way oversalted that day. Twice cooked pork was probably the best thing we got - good umami and enough heat to cut through the heft. The pork trotters were super gelatinous but almost no meat - would skip. Soup tasted like hot water. Of the food we got, it's nothing that I couldn't make at home, but it is the convenience of having a bunch of favorites available to mix and match, which I can appreciate. What I do not appreciate though is paying for my food and the server helping themselves to 25% tip without passing the tablet to me to sign to pick or sign. Uh, all you did was scoop premade food into a bento box and then didn't even let me choose how much I would tip you? That's sketch and knocks them down a star.

I had a hankering for some real, good, authentic Chinese food. I've passed this spot called Taste…read moreHome Chinese Kitchen on Anderson Mill road several times, so I decided to drop in. The staff was very friendly and welcoming. Very nice atmosphere. I ordered broccoli w/ chicken and 4 spring rolls. The spring rolls were hot, fresh, and very good. Crunchy outer texture and flavorful vegetables inside. The broccoli w/chicken was prepared just the way I like it with the bold, beautiful colors from the broccoli and carrots, the chicken was tasty, and tender. I'll be going back to Taste Home a.s.a.p. I give Taste Home 5 drinks. Cheers!

Hidden gem in this food truck area. This one is located towards the end of the parking lot with…read moreauthentic Asian food. They have Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine. Food was fresh and delicious. Service was good and there might be a wait depending on how many people are there since they make it fresh. They have seating area under cover as well. They take credit cards too. Overall good experience!

You can learn a lot about Vietnamese food by NOT eating in an air-conditioned Western restaurant…read more * * * Com Tam Pa Phi is in a fascinating food truck park at the corner of Parmer and Dessau. The clientele here is downscale. The food is downscale. If you are looking for the Elizabeth Street Cafe, it is not here. A lot of the places are fine for what they are. But you have to get yourself into a downscale mentality. * * * Virtually every single truck has built a shack to eat the food in. You are out of the sun. You are in the shade. There is some kind of a breeze - either from an electric fan or cracks in the wall or ceiling. Housing is crude. This is rough eating. More importantly, there is no air conditioning. So it is going to get hot, shade or no shade, fan or no fan. * * * Most of the patrons are Mexican or Central Americans. They are also much much smarter than me. They would show up in their trucks - often a giant pick up truck. Someone would jump down from the passenger side ... Go into a shack ... Get their bag of food ... And take it Home. They were eating in air conditioned comfort. I was the only idiot actually eating in the shacks. I was roasting like a horned frog on a rock That said, I ate like a king I also got a huge lesson in what Vietnamese food is all about. * * * A lot of Vietnamese places are like the food trucks at Parmer and Dessau. Vietnam is hot. Vietnam is humid. Lots of street food is served outside. You eat on a folding chair. Or you eat in a shack similar to what I was eating in. In 105 degrees, things change. * * * a) In air conditioned restaurants, you get raw carrot and raw daikon and raw cucumber on the side. You ignore those and eat your main dish. Out in the shack in 105 degrees, the raw carrots, raw daikon and raw cucumbers were life savers. They were a major contrast with the hot food straight out of the fryer. Never have I enjoyed a raw cucumber so much. b) In an air conditioned restaurant, you ignore the condiments that are served at your table. You leave the Rooster Sauce and the Rice Vinegar alone. Condiments become king in 105 degrees in a shack. I was dipping my raw veggies in rice vinegar or alternatively in chili paste. They were the absolute best part of the meal. c) I will describe the two dishes I had next. Keep in mind this is downscale Vietnamese cooking. Lots of the ingredients are going to come straight out of the freezer. In a brick and mortar air conditioned place, I would be unhappy if I was served food straight from the freezer. In the shack, my meal actually worked. d) One of my two dishes was a lemon salt and pepper fried shrimp. This was straight out of the freezer and almost tasteless by itself. But dipped in chili paste, it was just divine. I chowed down my shrimp quite happily. I was starting to get addicted to that chili paste. e) The other dish was vermicelli with egg roll and grilled pork. Once again, the egg roll was out of the freezer. Once again, rice vinegar and chili paste would be the stars of the show. The pork was what you would expect from an honest but downscale lower class place. The pork was decent enough to eat. (No health violations here.) But it was definitely gristly and fatty. The pork was just acceptable all by itself. It got better - but not amazing - if it was dipped in sauce. f) In 105 degrees, iced Vietnamese coffee is GOD. They serve theirs the old fashioned way where it brews in your tin cup before you pour it over ice. The iced Vietnamese coffee extended by two hours the amount of time I could have sat comfortably in that shack. I wish I had some of that iced Vietnamese coffee right now. * * * If you ate only one Vietnamese meal in Austin, would you want it to be Com Tam Pa Phi? Probably not. Do you want to replicate the experience of eating out on a road somewhere in rural central Vietnam? Com Tam Pa Phi will do you for sure. Can you eat well at Com Tam Pa Phi? I had a great time. But frankly, the Mexicans were more on top of things than I was. If you live anywhere near the corner of Parmer and Dessau, Picking your food up from the food court and eating it in your apartment makes a lot of sense. And in your apartment, you can dip your veggies in anything you want that HEB sells.

My partner and I came in and enjoyed a nice meal. The lady serving was very friendly and we really…read moreenjoyed the dishes we ordered. We got the cumin lamb and eggplant skewers which were delicious and the lamb was a very reasonable price point. We also got chili oil wontons, mala fried chicken, and pickled mustard pork noodle soup. These had good flavor but tasted a bit unlike the same dishes I've had at other Sichuan restaurants. The wontons didn't have much chili oil and the chicken was rather sweet which I didn't prefer. However, it still tasted great and entrees came with large bowls of rice.

We tried six dishes: yam and woodear mushroom, squid and lamb skewers, salt and pepper fish, beef…read morenoodle soup, wontons in chili oil, and mala beef dry pot, and everything so good My favorite was probably the dry pot, but the skewers stood out because not many Chinese places in Austin feature skewers on their menu, but this place did it and did it well! The portion sizes were good too! I was surprised at how quiet and peaceful the restaurant was even though there were so many people, but it made it good for conversation. Will definitely be returning

Didn't take pictures of the pork spring rolls or the pork bun sliders but I could eat 10 of those…read morepork bun sliders there so good! Place was beautiful inside and comfy chairs and the food was amazing buddy liked the rice and I had the oxtail bun bo hue and they have spicy chili sauce on the table to get to your heat level. Place is amazing.

Good pho place in the area. But also the only pho place in the area. Prices are a bit higher in the…read moreAustin area. Especially the $7 coffee! But you get a lot of pho in one bowl. The seats here are really nice compared to a lot of other restaurants. Service can be a bit slow for a Friday lunch rush. But they do a good job

Update: It's been several years since I've been back to this restaurant, a place filled with fond…read morememories. While in the area, we decided to order food to go and were reminded why we loved it so much. We got the chicken wings appetizer, salt and pepper prawn, and the pork rice plate. Everything was delicious. The wings were perfectly crispy, and the salt and pepper prawn was my favorite--absolutely amazing! Thank you for taking me on a delightful trip down memory lane. It was wonderful to revisit the flavors and memories of this beloved spot.

This place has some of the worst Chinese food I've had in a while. The tip off should've been that…read morethe restaurant was completely dead on Friday at noon. It should've been full of shoppers, business people, and hospital workers from the neighboring facility. Everything was bland, from the orange chicken to the fried rice to the spring roll. Even the hot and sour soup was not hot and somewhat sweet. Service was friendly enough, but that was the only high note here.

I admit I order a lot of delivery. This was one of those excellent orders. I ordered Coconut curry…read more(I added shrimp as my protein). I also ordered the (10) count wrapped shrimp as an appetizer. The sauces were outstanding, the curry was homemade and wonderful, enough shrimp and the rice was fluffy and plentiful. I also received my order rather quickly for a Friday night.

This place needs more love!! It such a wonderful small business with delicious food and beautiful…read moredecor. There's an actual cyclo hanging from the ceiling! I love that you can customize spice levels, I've tried the kungpao shrimp, general tsos chicken and happy family and they were all flavorful and made me come back for more. The happy family was my favorite because the beef was so tender! I like that they have a mix of Vietnamese cuisine as well as American Chinese when the craving hits this is my go to spot for halal Chinese (it's halal on the weekends) There is plenty of parking so no need to stress over that. The service is so fast and attentive and the restaurant is so beautifully decorated I wish I had one of their lamps!