Va Va Voom Goes Express!
Flashy Vietnamese restaurant Va Va Voom, voted ‘Outstanding Vietnamese’ in our 2011 Reader Restaurant Awards, is set to roll out a brand new Vietnamese café concept in Beijing, called Vietexpress.
Boss and all-round nice guy Sean Lee explained the new concept will be more casual and authentic than Va Va Voom, with wooden tables and chairs and a focus on classic street food like pho (beef noodle soup), barbecued pork, beef and chicken, and – best of all – banh mi sandwiches.
Vietexpress is scheduled to open May 15th in the new Guo Son shopping mall in Dongzhimen (it’s diagonally opposite Raffles Mall). Sean is targeting local offices for lunch and dinner with an average spend of RMB 40-50. Undeterred by the fact that the mall closes at 10pm, Vietexpress will even have a happy hour from 4-8pm with a wide selection of imported Vietnamese beers.
That’s not all – in the same food court, Sean is opening a new Southeast Asian restaurant – A. Wang Café, selling Singaporean, Malaysian and Thai fare. If these concepts hit the high notes, expect to see them rolled out in a mall near you soon.
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Submitted by Guest on Sat, 02/02/2013 - 12:15 Permalink
Re: Va Va Voom - A truly Southeast Asian Cafe
Va Va Voom has moved to Solana, 朝阳区朝阳公园路6号蓝色港湾Solana国际商区16号楼L-RS-03店铺（靠近蓝港西南沿河）. Va Va Voom not only has changed its concept, it has also expanded the menu. It only used to serve Vietnamese cuisine but now the menu has included Singaporean, Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian cuisines... When I looked at the menu, I thought the owner was very ambitious to include so many countries into the menu and the menu is really extensive in selections... So we decided to order a dish from each country so to challenge the culinary skills of the chef. We have the Singaporean stir fried radish cake, Thai shrimp cake, Indonesian "gado gado" salad , Vietnamese spring rolls, Malaysian fried beef noodles, Singaporean hainanese chicken rice and Thai Tom Yum seafood hotpot... To our surprise, every dish that we ate was fabulous, among us were Singaporean, Malaysian, Hong Kong and Beijinger, all of us agree that the dishes we ordered were surprisingly authentic and great. Thump up to the chef and owner. we have finally found a truly great southeast Asian cafe to dine, and we shall return to Va Va Voom to try different dishes... Must try!!!!
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