Attention people, don't eat here photo by Gretel Schueller

Burlington, located between the beautiful Adirondack and Green Mountains, is one of America’s most loveable cities. Burlington is an great place to go shopping or taste some delicious chocolate and coffee, but it is definitely not a place to eat Vietnamese food. Little Saigon, on Shelburne Road in South Burlington, offers the worst Vietnamese cuisine ever, and at the worst prices.

The first thing you notice is the ordinary and boring design of the dining area inside Little Saigon. Four chairs are placed around one table, with four or five tables occupying the whole area. In every table, you have four glasses of water. There is also a small coffee shop inside the restaurant where you can order a special kind of coffee from Saigon. The light inside the restaurant is so shadowy that you can barely see the menu or the people that are sitting at the opposite side of your table.

Now that you have already been disappointed by the atmosphere, your disappointment will continue as you look at the menu and the prices. Despite the diversity in Vietnamese cuisine, this Little Saigon doesn’t offer you many options. There are about 20 choices from the three sections: appetizer, main dishes and vegetarians. Remarkable appetizers include egg rolls and Saigon spring rolls. For main dishes, the famous beef traditional soup (pho) is probably the best choice.

One order of Saigon spring rolls includes two rolls and a small cup of soy sauce dip. The spring rolls are fried well, but contain nothing more than lettuce. Normally, spring rolls are made of chopped pork, carrots, lettuce, tofu and mint leaves. For an order of spring rolls in any Vietnamese restaurant in New York City or San Francisco, $2.50 will be the maximum amount that you have to pay. At Little Saigon, they charge you $4.50. Unbelievable, unreasonable, and unacceptable!

Pho (beef noodle soup) is the most famous dish in Vietnamese cuisine that consists of beef, rice noodles, onions, and sprouts. The whole mixture is served with the broth – which is made by stewing pig and cow bones in a large pot for a long time. The broth decides the final taste of pho. The longer the bones are cooked, the better. But don’t expect to taste a delicious pho at Little Saigon. The rice noodles they serve here are hard, not soft. The beef, which is not well cooked, contains some blood, and the broth tastes like water. They have transformed the most delicious dish into a tasteless bowl of water, beef and noodles. That bowl costs $7.95.

When you get the bill at $14.00, you'll feel mad because it just wasn't worth it.

Don’t give up trying Vietnamese cuisine. Save your money for Chinatown in New York City, where you can find the best Vietnamese cuisine ever!

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Rating Service: Food: Atmosphere: Cleanliness: $$$: Butt Comfort: Overall Rating: Rating Key Well worth it! It beats eating Ramen. You'd be better off eating at McDonald's. Even the rats won't eat here.