Mekong Restaurant invites you to their establishment. They are open nightly Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and during week-ends and are positioned in an area packed with stores.
Always recommend Mekong to all my friends who visit out of town. The best viet food, hands down. Spring rolls are amazing. Pork chops are grilled to perfection. Everything else is just delicious. A frequent customer and always will be!
Been here plenty of times, finally writing a review
I've been here plenty of times, so I finally decide to write a review for it. Great restaurant, wide menu variety, great service, just great in general
I typically get pad thai because pad thai in general is good. The pad thai here, while good, isn't as good as other places. Don't get me wrong, I think it's good, they put vegetables in it, which is great, but I think they're a little too light on the sauce. But overall, good pad thai and i'll definitely be ordering it again.
They also have another dish, which is just a porkchop over a bed of rice with carrots and green onions. Sounds simple, and is amazing. Plain, white rice, fish sauce, carrots and green onion is actually very good, and the fish sauce also goes well with the porkchop. Only way to make it better is to dump some roasted peanuts on it.
Their other popular dishes, like pho and the vermicelli dishes are also great too, can't go wrong with those. The spring rolls here are great. However, I generally don't order their stir-fry dishes because I think they're the weakest on on the menu. The sauce is light and the plainness of the rice really overpowers.
But overall, mekong is a great place to go if you're in the area and don't feel like eating at the japanese or fast food restaurants surrounding it.
The Mekong sprouted up in the location of a earlier failed chain restaurant years ago. The Vietnamese family who own and clearly operate the restaurant serve consistently well prepared, authentic dishes native to their homeland minus, no doubt, some of the non-Canadian exotics. Service is always great; prices are reasonable (but there are comparables around a little more modestly priced). A local treasure. But if you do not like spicy food and you see that adjective on the item desired the cook will gladly tone the fireyness down to your level, or, for the most daring, ask for lots of water.
I've been on the hunt for Kingston best PHO.
The Pho is okay. I would eat it again. What really made this restaurant stand out ~ the Vietnamese Spring Rolls. Really really good.
I thought the place looked dirty but I would go for the rolls again. I'd say it is their signature dish.
First time coming here in years (used to come here frequently around 5 years ago then stopped going out to eat) and i was NOT disappointed. I got their vietnamese pho with beef... it was SO good and very inexpensive compared to other vietnamese restaurants... i got a large soup and it was around $7-8 and it filled me up. My friends got some other dishes that looked amazing.... chicken with spring rolls, vermicelli noodles, some veggies and fish sauce... they all sounded and looked amazing. I definitely recommend this place!
Beware there is a limited menu and wait staff, and the decore is what you'd expect of a Vietnamese resteraunt in the hub.
This being said, Vietnamese classics like curry, pho, spring rolls, and vermacelli are done to perfection. The spring rolls are crispy, the greens are fresh, and almost everything comes with some fish sauce. Easily the best vietnamese in town I've tried (which is about half of the them).
This was my second time eating here. We ordered take out and it only took 15 minutes. The price is great and the taste and quality of the food is excellent. At first I thought my regular sized # 12 wasn't going to be enough, but I was stuffed. Every one really enjoyed their meals.
My friends and I go to this restaurant when ever...
My friends and I go to this restaurant when ever we're all together. It's our collective favorite place to eat in Kingston. We usually have anywhere from 3-6 of us there, and we never wait more than 20 minutes MAX, and we've been at all times through the day.
ALTHOUGH, I will say, takeout and delivery are less awesome. The food gets that Styrofoam-y taste.
I came here for Vietnamese food. Specifically, I...
I came here for Vietnamese food. Specifically, I was looking for some good pho noodles. What I got was some great noodles. $7.95 for a large bowl of noodles filled with beef. Appropriate sauces on the table: hoisin and chili sauce.
Salad rolls were excellent.
But the spring rolls were out of this world, best I've ever had, bar none. Do NOT miss the spring rolls.
I ordered take-out. Spring rolls were greasy.
I...
I ordered take-out. Spring rolls were greasy.
I asked twice for hoisen sauce and she didn't give it to me but told me it was in the bag. That was probably my tenth time ordering the same take-out order from there so i know they NEVER put hoisen sauce in the bag unless you ask. Disappointing.
Everyone was very happy with thier order. Mine was not what I thought it would be from the description but that didn't matter because it was really, really good. My husband really liked his as well and he tried mine and really liked it. The prices and portions are very good. I was happy that there was a decent sized vegetarian menue. The tea was only $1 and had many many cups in it. The rice my son ordered was also only $1. All together our order came to $24 with all taxes/tip included. That's very good for three people!
I've been there several times and the food always...
I've been there several times and the food always takes forever. The food always arrives after a good 40 minutes have passed. The food is quite good and fairly priced however.
The food does kind of take a while...but for the...
The food does kind of take a while...but for the price you can't beat it. We love Mekong - I love the spicy beef on vermicelli and you absolutely MUST try an avocado shake!
They have good spring rolls there, and the price...
They have good spring rolls there, and the price is relatively cheap.
However, I worked relatively close to them, and these people put their garbage in the freezer, along with frozen food until it is garbage night to take them out.
Do you still want to eat there?
