Porkees Vietnamese Deli

Dr H., was finally a real doctor when she came back here to visit us in Brisbane! She also bought her boyfriend of six years along and I finally got to meet him. I've honestly never met the guy cause I work full time and with full time studying from those guys, it was far and few in between ever really catching up! Anyway, the three of us have a crazy love of super dirty burgers and so we tried, valiantly, go to the newly opened (at the time) ZePickle store in the Valley.

I shit you not, we spent a good fifteen minutes try to find a goddamn park in that place. We later found a parking spot in the shopping centre directly opposite to ZePickle. Only to find that it only opens for dinner, barring Friday and the weekend where it opens for lunch, and a late lunch at that. We were getting crazy hangry so we went to the first restaurant we saw otherwise, Porkees!

This place!

Below is their menu! Its the usual fast food assortment of Vietnamese dishes, vermicilli salad, pho, Vietnamese curry chicken, broken rice and friends. Apparently there is a massive lack of good Vietnamese restaurants in Hobart so Dr H., was pretty keen.

Classic Viet stuff

Dr H., got the roast pork belly banh mi, it came with finely shredded pickled carrot, coriander, cucumber, soy sauce and some eye wateringly hot red chili. The chili was so amazingly hot, like when you're a child and eat something spicy for the first time and you just cry and cry and cry, you lose all sensation in your mouth and regret every mouthful. That's how spicy it was. We pretty much downed all our Vietnamese iced coffees at once and then Dr H., stole all my cucumber to cool down her tongue. Aside from that the pork belly had uncrunchy crackling and wasn't very well seasoned either. I found the pickled carrot to be too fine a shred as well, turning mealy rather than crunchy.

Go to Scotts Road Bakery in Darra instead!

I got the com tam aka broken rice dish, this one came with a pretty balanced nuoc cham, a few slices of cucumber and a marinated pork chop. I wish the pork chop had a bit of a better colour and charry flavour to it, its pretty pale stuff and there wasn't enough bits? When Mama Pham and I do marinated pork chops at home, they've always got lots of charry spice bits of garlic, onion and lemongrass that end up falling off and sticking to the rice. 

Mama Pham would rage over this presentation

Porkees Vietnamese Deli
Atmosphere: 5, your standard deli! It was pretty packed when we went past.
Service: 8, super speedy and prompt service considering they were having so many customers come in and out.
Food: 5, nothing fancy. Its cheap for city food but expensive by Inala or Darra standards.