Com Viet Vietnamese Restaurant

This is another Vietnamese Restaurant in Penang apart from Ms Saigon. Com Viet is located in a secluded lane called Lintang Burmah which is just behind Kassim Mustafa in Pulau Tikus.

Place is decorated in a simple manner. So do not expect to get that cozy atmosphere like Ms Saigon. The choices on the menu is limited. There are no sets meals unlike Ms Saigon. Everything comes a dish to eat with rice, well unless you have noodles or the rolls then that is without eating rice.

Since I am crazy with Ms Saigon's Vietnamese Southern noodle -stir fried beef , I ordered the exact noodle from Com Viet. Only thins the name of the dish was different. It was called, Bun Bo Nam Bo. Since I have in mind of Ms Saigon's taste, I found this to be rather tasteless. Was quite disappointed with this.

Next dish we had was Stir Fried beef with leek and celery. This was good and tasty. Thumbs up.

Then we had the vietnamese rolls. We ordered the Fresh Spring Roll Northern Style and the Hanoi Spring Roll. Both were equally good.

Fresh Spring Roll Northern Style. It has prawns in it together with salad leaves and lots of cilantro leaves.

Hanoi Spring Roll. The rolls are deep fried. Inside there is minced meat and some vegetables.

The last dish we had was Fresh Shrimp Paste with Sugarcane. This was unique to me. Served with sheets of rice paper, you are to slice the shrimp paste, put the vegetable and wrapped it up with the rice paper. Then dip it in the sauce provided. It was excellent.