Thuan An Restaurant

Lively and boisterous,family-run Thuan An is full most nights,packed with diners in big cushy booths poring over the vast menu of Chinese-influenced,southern Vietnamese cuisine,currently at around 270 items. There's the chef's special quail- crisp,fried and finger-lickin'good;given the salt-and-pepper treatment;buttered;or served with salted eggs. Pho is a symphony of MSG-free,fragrant beef broth and slippery rice noodles;pile on mint,beanshoots and chilli and slurp away. Fish fillets come stir-fried with ginger and onion,and are a fitting match for fluffy white rice and purifying green tea. And,there are jackfruit smoothies for dessert. Service is brisk and efficient.