Sai Gon Cuisine

  • 6805 Cantrell Road Little Rock, AR 72207
  • 501-663-4000

Description

A sign above the entrance porch promising "authentic Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai food" denotes that Sai Gon is hedging its bets (rather more so than competitor Van Lang) for central Arkansans to whom the cuisine of Vietnam may still sound too strangely esoteric. The multipage menu unfurls a potentially bewildering array of dinner choices: 80 Vietnamese dishes in 10 categories plus 54 Chinese dishes and 34 Thai dishes. Another 23 lunch combinations are listed, while several daily specials get posted on a chalkboard. Japanese cuisine gains a toehold on Saturdays and Sundays, when seven kinds of sushi rolls are offered. As a navigational aid, the Vietnamese dishes are coded from V1 to V80, the Chinese from C1 to C54, the Thai from T1 to T34, and the lunches from L1 to L23. That simplifies the ordering, and the English-speaking staff is happy to help map out the menu, which marks 10 Vietnamese dishes with a star as "recommended."

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