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THANH LONG

World cuisine €€
4.3/5
26 review
Open - from 16h30 to 20h30 Opening hours

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4101, Judah Street - Sunset District, San Francisco, The United States Of America
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2024
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2024

Two dishes have made the reputation of this Vietnamese restaurant run by three generations of women who fled the Vietnamese communists in 1975: the garlic noodles and the roasted crab. That said, the garlic mussels and king tiger prawns are also worth a visit. Be warned: the use of fingers is required to avoid leaving anything on your plate. You can go there with your eyes closed, you will enjoy yourself. The decoration of the restaurant has on the other hand not much of particular, one comes here for the card.

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Visited in january 2024
If you're ever in SAN FRANCISCO, and you ❤️ DUNGENESS ???? This is the place to go to!!!My GRANDSON
Visited in january 2024
I frequent here like way too often. I always order the same roated crab w/ the fried rice and I drizzle the butter over top. I wouldn't have it any other way. I have tried most of the crab flavors and this by far is the best! I wouldn't recommen unless your in thr mood to Experiment! The tiger prawns were subpar. Dry . The chicken satay wasn't that great. Would never order again. The sea bass was so bland I wanted to send it back. It showed up unseasoned with a few pieces of bok choy and like a carrot. Stick to what ya know...
Visited in december 2023
I wish I can say I really enjoyed my visit but the food is overpriced and I definitely think there is msg in the roast crab dish. The service was good. But for the price of $80 a crab, I could only eat 2 claws in and felt the after taste of the msg or some kind of flavor enhanced. I started getting a headache after leaving there. We had mussels for $15.95 and it was only 5 mussels on 5 pieces of small breads. The garlic noodle is just ok for me and not impressive. I am shocked people actually like this place but for me, I won’t be back or recommend it. My friend raved about this place but I was left disappointed. I didn’t feel good afterward and neither did my bf. He thinks it is too salty. I think one of the secret spices is msg. I have been to another Vietnamese restaurant with my brother and we both had headaches. Maybe my sibling and I are sensitive to msg. But overall my experience here was disappointing. I don’t understand the hype and don’t plan to ever come back. I wish I can give better rating but for about $150 plus tip for 3 dishes, it didn’t seem worth it.
Visited in december 2023
Ooof. Overrated and overpriced. Thanh Long feels like a restaurant that is aware of its local popularity and sets prices knowing that. It's certainly not for innovative food.

While the food is not horrible, it's not great either. In that it's not worth the premium prices they charge. For example, $80 for their famous crab dish and it's too salty and greasy and wasn't as fresh as you would expect (at least our experience). This dish is living off the popularity from decades ago.

Their famous garlic noodles are overrated. For $15, I expected a larger portion esp considering 1) you're overcharging for everything else 2) it's literally noodles and garlic. Perilla has better garlic noodles, larger portions, and it's not nearly as oily.

Some of the lemongrass chicken was overcooked (tough and dry on exterior) and the pieces were ridiculously oversized for some reason. Again, Perilla has a better version (btw I don't love Perilla either but it's ???? to ???? here).

All in all, we paid $260 for four dishes and garlic noodles, taxes and tip (which was automatically included). Not often do I regret going to a restaurant, but this is one of those times.

And it wasn't just me, 4/5 of our group felt the same about the food. Really poor value and outside of the eggplant dish and service, everything else was a complete miss.
Visited in december 2023
Great roasted crab and garlic noodles

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