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I’ve come to banh mi tres bon quite a few times. Unfortunately the experience of the last visit marked the lowest in all. We came in at an odd time of the day, 3-4pm, for a late lunch. We ordered chicken banh mi, pork salad roll, pomelo salad, and a flight of cocktails. Cocktails flight was advertised on a menu on the table without price. We originally wanted to try only one, after were explained that it’s a flight of 3 small glasses of cocktails, we decided to try. The pomelo salad came first. The dish looked fresh but not a lot in quantity. The pomelo was pale white and not pink like in the picture of the menu. The fruit was not sweet but fresh. The salad is mostly the pomelo skin shredded in thin pieces with a bitter taste. Overall the dish tasted rather bland and uninteresting. We finished very fast because we were a bit hungry. The cocktails came next. We found the cocktails overall tasted overly sweet and too heavy. For example, the Rice wine soho lychee & crème de cassis for sure has too much layers of sweetness, there is the rice wine, the lychee, and the blackcurrant crème de cassis liquor. We felt that it’s not a good cocktail because each ingredient overpowers each other too much. And the Plum wine rambutan juice & ginger tasted like sweetened ginger wine, and no trace of the expected zesty rambutan juice. And Hpnotic & coconut liqueur just didn’t speak to us. All of them seem to have the problem that if you mix some equally strong fruit liquor with a traditional liquor, and the sweetness from the fruit liquor brought out too much of ethanol, aka alcohol taste, overpowering everything else in the drink. And lastly the lemon grass chicken banh mi that I was so looking forward had very little chicken in it. The bill totalled $70+ excluding tips because the cocktails flight was $25, on the expensive side for a tasting flight I think. Oh and there were some very persistent flies at our table that really made the experience worse.