(Beautiful view | Delicious food | Excellent service)
📍 Location and Space
Last night I had a chance to eat at Moc Quan, a restaurant located in the Dong Quan dam area, about 500 meters away from Dong Quan lake. The view here is super beautiful, very chill. From the outside, the restaurant looks quite normal, nothing too outstanding, but once you step inside, it is really surprising – the space is large, divided into many separate areas, decorated very luxuriously and carefully.
First impression is the kitchen is very clean, looking at it feels very reassuring. The restaurant has many types of rooms: family rooms, private rooms, open rooms, class meeting rooms... in general, everyone can choose a suitable space.
Outside, there is a guest reception area with low bamboo tables and chairs, where you can sit and drink tea after eating, or sit and wait for friends if you arrive early. There is also a huge koi fish pond with hundreds of colorful koi fish, artificial waterfall, lots of trees, very beautiful for taking photos. Next to it, there is a playground for children with slides and ball houses, so parents can eat comfortably while kids play.
The restaurant also has an area with many kinds of flowers for taking pictures, looks very nice.
My family went in a large group so we booked a big room that could accommodate about 30 people, divided into 2 tables – each table seated about 10 adults and children. The room was very clean and cool thanks to industrial air conditioners, not stuffy at all. The staff were very many and quick, one room had 3 staff serving, food was brought up quickly, and service was very good. Service was flawless.
As for the food, it was super diverse, almost everything was available as long as you had money. One table for 6–10 people cost about 90 dollars, quite expensive compared to countryside standards but considering the food quality, good service, and nice space, I think it’s worth it.
🍽 Menu and Pricing
We ordered 2 geese, each about 4.5kg, price calculated per kg was 400,000 VND (~17 USD/kg). We also ordered: banana flower pig ear salad, chicken mushroom soup, fried corn, minced pork sweet and sour pineapple soup, and white rice. We brought our own fruits, alcohol, and soft drinks, only used ice from the restaurant. Total cost was about 100 dollars for 16 adults and 8 kids – very reasonable for such a big group.
🦆 Highlighted Goose Dishes
Goose was processed into many dishes:
Goose sausage: goose skin used as the casing, inside was minced goose mixed with cartilage and herbs, then grilled.
Goose blood pudding: Goose blood pudding (this dish may seem horrifying to foreigners because it's raw blood that hasn't been cooked). Even I didn't dare to eat this dish, but it's a specialty and loved by many people in Vietnam. The goose blood congealed, bright red, topped with roasted peanuts and herbs, inside the goose blood were finely chopped goose cartilage parts. Many people who can eat this dish say it's very cool and delicious, but personally, I find it scary and don't dare to eat it.
Goose cooked with shrimp paste and galangal – this dish was delicious and strange.
Goose cooked with taro, eaten with rice was great.
Steamed goose, deboned and thinly sliced, dipped in soy sauce with garlic.
Grilled goose – super tasty.
Goose organs stir-fried with bean sprouts and loofah – also good.
Stir-fried goose with herbs and chili – flavorful and tasty.
All dishes were cooked by the restaurant’s chef so the flavor was very good, dishes were hot and nicely presented.
However, one downside was that since we brought our own soft drinks, we had to pay an extra service fee, but actually, if ordering drinks from the restaurant, we would have paid for each can anyway, so it was the same.
One suggestion is that the big room should have a space for setting up birthday decoration and taking photos, currently the space only fits tables and chairs, not suitable for private events inside the room. Although the restaurant has an outdoor area for setting up birthday decorations, I prefer a private indoor party.
🎯 Overall Rating
⭐️ 8/10 for my experience at Mộc Quán.
✔️ Beautiful ambiance
✔️ Delicious food
✔️ Professional service
👉 If you visit Sóc Sơn, don't forget to check out Mộc Quán Restaurant!