[Xenio]

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

Is legitimate Vietmanese restaurants supposed to give you your meals raw?

I ordered beef udon and I got a bowl of hot (but not boiling) soup, a slab of blood-red raw beef, a pile of uncooked bean sprouts and some random scattered other raw stuff. Was $13 too. I can probably get that stuff out of a supermarket for $5~6.

I could have just turned the meal into hotpot except there's no hotpot or anything. Just a barely hot bowl of soup that definitely cannot cook through a block of uncut beef.

I may have made myself look like an idiot but it was so strange for me..

i'm a Vietnamese and yes, they ARE suppose to give you uncooked bean sprouts and some random scattered other raw stuff, it a traditional recipe. but some high class restaurant may want to appeal to foreigner and change them to cooked one

btw, it Vietnamese not Vietmanese