Low Carbing When Eating Out

This bowl of delicious salad happened a few months ago. When? I forget. I was at Du Viet Uptown Damansara for lunch. At the time I was on my low-carb eating plan (yet again). So. No rice. No noodles. Though I was really hankering for some beef noodles.

I had the whole place to myself. Every time I come to Du Viet, be it during the day or evening, the place seems desolate. Maybe it's because I am usually early. After all, they have been in operations for many years, so they must be doing alright.

Since I could not eat rice or noodles, I opted for the Dry-Style Noodle Salad with a special request for the noodles to be substituted with extra vegetables. What I appreciate is that the restaurant happily obliged.

While waiting, three customers walked in and took the table beside mine. They were very chatty and I could not help eavesdropping. 

The guy was telling the two girls how much he loves angkoo kueh. He bought 10 it seems and told his mum not to touch any because he wanted to eat all of it (hah..hah...). Then he said that he loves angkoo kueh because of the chewiness. Hey, me too. I'm an angkoo kueh fan too.

Anyway, I stopped being a busybody and focused on my salad.

The dressing is not exactly low carb as it contains sugar and peanuts. 

This salad is the Special Mixed Grilled served with Skewered Lemongrass Chicken, NZ Lamb and Beef. What I like to do is to remove the meat from the skewers and mix it into the salad. Ouch! The meat was piping hot! Which is a good sign.

I love the two salad dressings, one a vinaigrette and the other a peanut sauce. I was happy that I was given a very generous serving of vegetables in lieu of the noodles.

I just mixed it all up. The meat was tender and succulent. And very very tasty. 

That was a very good salad and one I would opt for when I am in need of a low-carb meal. However.......there is a however. There were occasions when the meat was hard and dry. So, there is no consistency here.

I did not have a good experience one evening when I was there with my partner. I requested for the special beef noodles without noodles and to substitute with more vegetables.

They could have given me more beansprouts (which don't cost much) but they did not (maybe they ran out). The beef slices were hard and dry. Not only that, I detected the smell and taste of rotten onions in my soup.

My partner's chicken noodles did not fare any better. We requested for steamed chicken but the meat appeared to be some sort of dry processed meat. Maybe they ran out of fresh chicken and just used the next alternative.

Needless to say, both of us did not feel too good the next day. I should have spoken up that evening. No, not to the people at Du Viet. But to my partner. Actually I wanted to go to Ampersand hah..hah..

The only thing nice that evening. The cili sauce was very spicy. Yum!