I'm always on the lookout for great Authentic Vietnamese restaurants that serve great food. Tuong Lai is one of these places! It's a little Restaurant located in those small alleyways just off John Street. Going inside you notice the menu is written on the wall in Vietnamese but lucky my Mum was with us to order and interpret, but the waiters do know enough English to work out what your trying to order otherwise! I order the grilled pork dish accompanied with pork mince, steamed egg, shreds of pork skin, pickled carrots and cumcumber slices with broken rice. Comes with a dipping sauce and complimentary soup. The spring rolls are cripsy and lovely here served with the lettuce and asian greens and the dipping sauce. Mum likes the marinated beef served with tomato rice, sliced cucumbers and some green shallots. The tomato rice looked bland but a bit of sauce on top, fixed that.
Food was good and brought to the table quickly, this place does get quite busy and I noticed a small queue forming, but the turnover is quick, you wouldn't wait more then 15- 20 minutes to be seated. Will return!

This is a great place to get your fix of Vietnamese food. I really like the minced prawn paste wrapped sugar cane sticks which comes with very thin rice noodles, lettuce, bean spouts, mint and rice paper. All these items are served on separate plates and you make you own rice paper rolls and can add a much or little of each ingredients as you want. You can also select a range of traditional noodles or rice dishes as well.

Approximate cost: $15