I tend to stay local like an old person over here on "my side" of the river in Da Nang. I rarely venture out to the other side where the downtown area is and I actually start to feel a bit anxious if I am ever over there. Despite intentionally moving to a city with over a million people in it I do not like crowds at all. It makes me nervous and I don't like it. But it was at the suggestion of a friend that we went to this place and I am very glad that we did.
The naming of the place is certainly creative because I think I have said this phrase at least a hundred times in my life.
Craft beer is very popular here in Vietnam but I rarely indulge in it because I feel as though it is unnecessarily overpriced. That is just the Vietnamese in me talking though. We get so used to spending around a dollar on a beer over here that we tend to forget that beer actually does cost a great deal more than that.
I never really know what to order at places like this because despite having drunk thousands of beers in my days, I never really ventured too far off the lager path. So when they have these samplers or flights, I am happy that they are there. The last time I had a flight was in Colorado over a decade ago and it was significantly more than $3.50, which is what 90,000 VND roughly translates to.
I can't really say which of these was the best and which wasn't but I do know that I am not generally a fan of darker beers so that was I think my least favorite of the bunch. To me, they were all pretty good but only one of them was worthy of ordering an entire pint of and that was the one in the middle.
As luck would have it, this is the one that is called the "one more" and it is their signature flavor. Lucky me.
As is common in Vietnamese places to drink, there was a ton of food on offer as well.
I regret to inform that despite having lived in this country close to 6 years I don't know a great deal about the food and am mostly aiming in the dark when I do order something. Thankfully, with Vietnamese food you rarely end up with something that has overpowering spices on them the way you would in Thailand.
I don't even know what this is or how we came to having it on our table. It was pork and as you can tell by the sheen on the pic, there was no shortage of oil used in its preparation. That doesn't thrill me from a health perspective but it was ready and on our table extremely fast and that's a plus, right?
All in all the dinner and drinks here was a bit more expensive than I would normally spend but overall it would still be considered extremely inexpensive by western standards. We were here for several hours eating and drinking and nobody made it to $20. Try to do that in the west!
If you are in Da Nang and enjoy craft beer at a cheap price, maybe go check them out. They don't speak a lot of English here but since they did such a great job with the menu, you don't really need to. This is a "point and click" sort of establishment and I would say that about 20% of the people in attendance were foreigners.
