Saigon Paradise - Edmonton, Alberta

I have been coming to this restaurant for about 15 years now, order the same thing every time and it never misses HOWEVER, my visit here in May 2024, I found a pretty decent length of hair in my meal amongst the pan fried lemongrass chicken. I snapped a picture ... and came back to the restaurant a few days later to discuss it being that it's a 30 Minute drive and talking over the phone with a language barrier was problematic. The server that is normally there, lovely lady, was not there so I told the young woman who was serving and showed her the picture, she just said oh and that was it. I decided to just leave and come back another day... Today, again, I missed the familiar server. I reported it to this server and showed her the pictures, she apologized and asked what I wanted to do I said just replace the meal that I had discarded due to the hair being in it. She says okay, I'm thinking great case closed and ordered I deleted the picture because I didn't need to keep it anymore, then she says $16.50 I'm like what????! She goes and gets "the boss" from the back he comes out NO HAIR NET the person prepping food isn't wearing one either and tells me he's the boss and only chef (all this time I'm looking at the guys hair realizing this is who shed into my meal.) Anyway, at this point I'm extremely irritated and considered loudly announcing for people dining in to check their food because chef isn't wearing a hairnet but I just paid and left. This was disappointing and hopefully my meal today will be hair free as usual. Wish I kept the picture to illustrate this review 🙄 Read more

Friends frequent this restaurant, but it doesn't compare with similar restaurants in south Edmonton. The soup wasn't hot-hot, as in temperature, but spicing hot was there. The bean sprouts didn't seem the freshest, but the basil was. The beef was a generous portion, but were big slices. When you're using ... chopsticks, that's not a handy size to deal with. Onion cake was also ordered. That came out nice and hot, but a little overdone, so very crunchy outside and soft inside. I guess I am use to a differently prepared onion cake. Two of the diners ordered wonton noodle soup, which looked very good. The other diner ordered beef pho, but there was a lot of broth and not much ingredients as the other dishes. Sorry I can't be more positive. My family has spoiled me for what to expect in Vietnamese cuisine. Read more

Recommended to me by a colleague who stayed at Rosslyn Hotel. Amazing customer service and food are freshly made, tastes great/ authentic!

Food tastes good, and fresh here. Would come back again. Bun Bo hue tasty and good portion. Yang chow fried rice is better than some Chinese restaurants which surprised me.

Excellent food and generous serving sizes! The owner/ chef loves to really ring the bell incessantly when the dish is done. Just makes us laugh so hard! Poor waiter/ waitress works for a slave driver who actually has some high standards for himself! The owner will occasionally come out to ... greet us and check to make sure we like his food. All around great place for Viet and Thai food. We love it very much! Read more