Quang’s new restaurant brings a finer touch to modern Vietnamese
This is not your average mum-and-dad restaurant. Vietnamese-style lamb, or fish sauce ice cream, anyone?
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Restaurants often take longer than expected to open.
Not so for the team behind new Fullarton restaurant Noi Vietnamese Eatery, who transformed a tired old Chopstix restaurant site into a contemporary, welcoming destination in less than
three months.
“The lead-up was pretty hectic,” says Quang Nguyen, who is running the restaurant with his wife, Thy and her brothers.
“It got done because we had plans for it … everything came together quickly, which was nice.”
Quang, the creative force behind Devour, Third Time Lucky and dessert spot Shibui, is stepping back from his cafes (“We’ve got a good team,” he says) and into the new restaurant kitchen to serve up the Vietnamese food he grew up with.
But it’s not something you’ll find at other mum-and-dad run restaurants.
“It’s our take on Vietnamese food; Australian Vietnamese,” he says.
“Lamb is not Vietnamese by any means, but it’s something that we grew up with. Our parents would marinate it with what they knew … to me, that’s the perfect example of what the idea is.”
Quang’s creativity in sweets will be surfacing – one of the crazier creations a fish sauce ice cream.
“Think of it as salted caramel,” he says
Open dinner Fri-Sun,
306 Glen Osmond Rd,
Fullarton, 8379 3898, noivietnameseeatery.com.au
