I like the sugarcane drinks there but for the food is a 50-50 for me. The portion is decent amount but food quality isn't that great. My family loves their family dinner style here but compare to another restaurant family dinner style it seems lacking in the quality, quantity and variety. The restaurant is cheaper in pricing so I guess that makes up for it whatever is missing.

Had a chicken noodle soup and a chicken rice porridge. The porridge was very flavorful and tasty. The soup I had was good but the chicken in it was incredibly dry. But due to how yummy the rice porridge was - we'd come back to try other dishes. And probably something other than chicken.

Found this small pho place, there's only inside seating. Service was Very quick and easy to order. The food is very delicious, I definitely recommend trying this place out.

One of my childhood restaurants growing up! My family dines here for the dishes we can't recreate at home, such as their BBQ rice dishes (Com Tam), vermicelli noodles (bun), and thick noodle soup (banh canh). They have a pretty good selection of shakes as well and Vietnamese Iced Coffee. I go here to get their avocado shake and coconut shake. They used to have a wider selection of shakes but have cut down the menu by half. They have Thai tea and Vietnamese coffee that is decent from surrounding restaurants. Nhu Y is one of the oldest spots on El Cajon Blvd that serves truly authentic Vietnamese food. You know it's authentic when there's a crowd gathered outside the restaurant of Vietnamese people playing games on the table too (lol). They have great food and we have been ordering for a long time so this review was way overdue!

Came here last night with my family since they were craving family style Vietnamese food. We entered the restaurant around 6pm and there were only a few people there. But after 6pm it gets more crowded so be sure to make note of that. In addition, their parking lot shares spaces with another restaurant. It's very small and the spaces are very narrow. Limited street parking as well. If you have a large party, try to all go in one car to make parking easier. As soon as we were seated we were given our menus which were in a laminated booklet with several photos and names in Vietnamese and English. To drink we got hot tea (very delicious flavor), soursop smoothie (it was more on the sweeter side than my great uncle preferred), and sugar cane juice (large size, so sweet and delicious. Refreshing...some how creamy and citrusy as well). There were 5 of us so we ordered: "Common Dinner" aka Com Phan, it consists of a soup, a vegetable dish, and a salty braised meat dish or fried fish, and white rice. - Canh Chua Ca Loc/ Hot Sour Soup with Catfish: This was on the sweeter side, even though we mentioned to them to make it less sweet. They had big chunks of okra, which to me, was unpleasant to eat in such a large size. The okra was chopped up to the size of my pinky. I liked the elephant ears (spongy looking celery), celery, tomato, and bean sprouts. The pineapple should have been enough to sweeten the broth. 5/10 eat this with rice! - Stir Fry Gai Lan with beef: sooo delicious! Perfectly cooked and the beef was very tasty. The sauce I didn't really care for. Tasted good with white rice. 9/10 - Ca Chien/ Fried Fish: This Fish was like it was only for one person! It was just the middle till the tail. It was perfectly crispy though and the fish was flaky. If you dip it in nuoc mam and eat it with pickled veggies it's just divine. Watch out for a few of the bones though! 8/10 - Ca Kho To/Fish Braised in Claypot: Omg, the braised sauce was just so incredible. I loved the heavy rich flavor and drizzled it all over my rice. Scraping the bowl to get every bit of the goodness. The fish in it was good but lots of bones (so watch out!). 8/10 We also ordered an appetizer of fried frog legs. I thought it was pretty plain, too much batter, and I think they chopped it up because I had lots of little bones to spit out! I didn't know there were so many bones in a frog before, I actually thought there were only 4 main ones. I probably wouldn't get this again. Maybe would taste good with a beer and dip it into fish sauce? Overall, it was a satisfying dinner. I enjoyed what options were available for me. Since I went with my family they LOVE fish, so those were the main foods we ordered. And personally, I don't like fish because of the bones which is why my reviews for them might not be high praising. If you ever go, I highly recommend drinking the sugar cane juice with citrus. It's so refreshing and if you get a large size, it will come out in a big to go container. Quite hilarious, but great to share with the table.

I haven't been to Little Saigon in San Diego before, but Yelp says this is promising, let's go. 3.5 STARS SATURDAY PARKING (2 stars) Parking is definitely tough to find and in some cases way sketch. Some zombies cruising here, and taking sidewalk naps outside the nearby fish market. But the mini mall attached has parking in there too. SERVICE (5 stars) We were the only Caucasians in there. The place was 90% full = young families and middle aged friends grabbing lunch. But service was still fast and super nice. (Very good broken English - I wish I knew some Vietnamese phrases) FOOD (4.5 stars) Tofu Ban Mi I wasn't very hungry when I was ordering, so I got tofu bahn mi. Delicious. Simple. Fantastic roll. Crunchy large cut veg. Large slices of softer fried tofu. The rest of my party are carnivores, and their dishes looked amazing. Their reviews were all, "Fresh. Delicious. Salty goodness. Lots of food - can't finish." And, at the same time, they all wanted each others order. Pork buhn mi Bbq buhn Sugar cane shrimp buhn mi. They would all get again no doubt. MOST CUSTOMERS were having some kind of hot pot in the middle of the table with tons of veg and noodles. INTERIOR / LOCATION (2.5 stars) This is the kind of place that you have to make peace with as, here for the food. NOT first, second, or even 10th date location. You're comfortable with your friends to come here - and you all come to grub. Bathroom is eh... serviceable. Storage of some dry food items in the seating area isn't uncommon, but some people might find pallets of groceries odd. (This space has giant ceilings and huge murals on the walls) PRICE Worth it. $13 ~ for noodles $7 for bahn mi (All styles) OVERALL I would definitely come here again to pick up food to go. It's nothing special to be in the restaurant unless trying out hot pot. (Maybe with a regular customer or someone who speaks Vietnamese). Today's addict zombies cruising around the sidewalks generally avoid people.