Com Ga Mi Mi House Vietnamese Cuisine

Com Ga Mi Mi House is the second venture by husband-and-wife team, Penang-born Michael Tan, and Hue-born Laurent Nguyen, who opened their first restaurant, Saigon House Cuisine, back in 2017.

Com Ga Mi Mi House, located just two doors away, specializes in the relatively lesser-known Vietnamese-style chicken rice, plus a few others dishes in its tight, compact menu.

Met Xoi Ga - a very Instagrammable platter of colorful glutinous rice balls with roasted and poached chicken, garnished with fresh vegetable salad, and pickles. Looks great, and tastes pretty good, too. The combination of aromatic, freshly-grilled chicken with sticky rice reminds me of the food we get in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Cha Gio Re - freshly deep-fried Vietnamese spring rolls with minced chicken and taro filling. This was the best version of the dish I’d had in recent times.

The house special Con Ga Nuong - chicken rice, served with grilled chicken and chicken livers & an embryonic egg. My first time having Vietnamese-style chicken rice, and it was good - fragrant rice cooked with a subtly spiced chicken broth, with notes of turmeric and black pepper. The marinated, grilled chicken was toothsome and absolutely delish.

Mi Quang - flat rice noodles with chicken, shrimps, sesame-studded rice crisps and quail’s eggs. There is a popular saying in Đà Nẵng, “Don’t marry a Đà Nẵng girl if you don’t like to eat Mì Quảng, and you are not a true Đà Nẵng girl if you can’t cook Mì Quảng”. The noodle dish (pronounced “Me Wang”) is a Central Vietnam specialty.

Mì Quảng here comprised of thick, rice noodles in a hearty chicken broth, flavoured with turmeric, garlic, black pepper and shallots, plus fish sauce.

Banh Xeo - crispy Vietnamese crepe with shrimp and vegetable filling. Very good version here, too.

Dessert: A bowl of assorted mango-flavored jelly, custard and boba balls. It’s a new item to be introduced into their regular menu, so we were lucky to have a sneak preview of it. Not quite sweet enough for me, though.

Watermelon and avocado juices.