Yen's Cafe - Hilo

The next Pho to our house, and thank God it is consistently good. It is a small family style Vietnamese restaurant. Very relaxed, the cash register was run by a middle school who spent most of his time looking at his phone! But food is always good and also quite fast. It is nice to have a reliable place to get a good meal. Your menu is both Chinese and Vietnamese and I really want to try everything.

We ordered our usual Vietnamese dishes, Bun ga and vegetarian fried rice and found them very good, but not very excellent. The chicken was nicely seasoned, but I missed the small fried onions adding many Vietnamese restaurants. The fried rice needed a little more egg. The tables and chairs were clean. The restaurant is small with 4(? tables, and they do a bit of the realization business. I suppose it's a family affair with mom and/or dad in the kitchen, big sister works her buns from waitress and little brother's distance with his iPad in the register. We gave big sister a good tip, but she probably had to share it with the family. We'd go back if we live in the area.

Yens! If your finished food, you have to jump up and yell YEN! Aloha

I love eating here. Great prices, friendly service and delicious food.

Their lemongrass chicken is yummy! I wish there was something like this in Kona.