Canh Restaurant

Vietnamese food is something we have quite often and Canh Restaurant in Canley Vale has to be one of my favourites. With neon lighting and customers crooning to Vietnamese karaoke, this place is pretty hard to miss.

They have your usual menu items of pho, vermicelli and rice but we always come for the goi (salads) and grilled dishes. We had the paw paw salad and the pork and jellyfish salad. Both are similar in taste, herby, tangy, spicy and yum!

Paw paw salad

Pork and jellyfish salad

The main event consisted of various dishes for wrapping in banh trang (rice paper sheets). First was venison which is cooked on a hot plate at your table. This is accompanied by a big plate of veggies: lettuce, herbs, bean sprouts, cucumber, pineapple, unripe banana (yuck!), carrot and grated apple.

Marinated venison

Veggies for wrapping

You assemble all the stuff on the banh trang which is softened in warm water, roll it up and eat it with nuoc mam (fish sauce) or mam nem sauce (anchovy and pineapple-stinky but soo delicious).



In addition to the venison we had bo la lop, minced beef wrapped in leaves, and chao tom, minced prawn grilled on sugar cane.

Bo la lop

Chao tom

The photos just don't do the food justice... sigh.