Nha means House

1075 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98009

If you go anything between Friday and Sunday, just be prepare to wait.  The line is out the door and when you walk in the door, your tummy just rumble with hunger and it’s saying feed me, feed me!  Don’t worry it won’t break your bank either.  The price for each of the item is so reasonable and the portion was just right too. We had their special citrus fruit tea, an appetizer, two courses and dessert for $30.

We started the meal off with some hot citrus fruit tea.  The base of the tea is black tea with oranges, lemons and limes slices added in with a bit of honey to sweeten it.  It was yummy.

Then we had what every Yelp review said to get was the Pork Burger and boy were we glad we did.  It was so good!  Basically it was a very tender pork belly with a bit of meat with some pickled cabbages, and sweet and salty peanut mixture and house sauce.  The bun was made of hum bao or banh bao bun, soft and tender, a great carrier for the great fatty pork.  It reminded me of Momofuku steamed pork bun dish in New York but in a different way.  This pork appetizer really whetted our appetite for the next dish we were to have.

So the main reason why we went to this restaurant is to get the spiced pork stew over rice.  Yvonne Wong was the first person to tell me to order this dish.  I want to shout out and say “Thanks Yvonne it was so good! I loved this dish!!!”  I’ll just say this dish is fantastic…fatty, flavorful and delicious!

The next dish our waiter actually recommend and said it would pair well with the pork over rice and it did. It had lots of vegetables, which I think was the Vietnamese water spinach, and meat, lamb.  I love the fact this dish had a great lamb flavor without being overly lamby and that the vegetables was not overcooked.

We polished all the food off and had a bit of room left for their shaved ice.  We order the Everything Shaved Ice with red beans, taro root, boiled peanut, green bean, grass jelly, pinto bean, press barley and then topped off with condensed milk.  I like the fact that they added a flavored simple syrup on the shaved ice before topping it off with all the toppings. 

We ate and drank everything we ordered.  It was a very satisfying meal and the perfect amount of food (We walked away happy and full, but not in a food coma way, which is good).  I can’t wait to get some of my friends together so we can try more dishes. I also wanted to say the wait staff there are super friendly and efficient.  My husband without me propping gave them a very very nice tip, which he never ever do.  Good job honey!