text: Da Vang pronounced yah yang is a hole in the wall in a sketchy ass strip mall next to the latin strip club and the Vietnamese Boba Tea shop Weeknights and Weekends alike this place is packed to the gills with Asian families Mexicans from the neighborhood and the few rogue gays and hipsters who wander in to try something ironic or obscure Then you have the old Mexican ladies who walk by every table and put a car air freshener on it with a note explaining that you can buy it from her for There are countless flies the place has not been cleaned since Jesus was alive and the parking lot almost requires four wheel drive There is not a more thirdworld dining experience in PhoenixnnMy initial inpression was that this would be a fantastic trip to a Vietnamese wonderland Seeing the types of people eating here the extensiveness of the menu and the overall ruggedness of it probably meant it was legit I am not Vietnamese Asian or any shade of yellow but I like to think I still know my food well enough to say that it was an absolute let down I ordered one of the most basic dishes Pho Tai which is a beef broth with rice noodles and sliced beef It is typically served with jalapeno rings bean sprouts basil and lemon wedges on the side yet mine was minus the jalapenos and lemon Each table of Asian people who ordered the same thing both before and after me received the said items with their meal After my plate of half the veggies I need arrived they brought by our spring rolls Again total disappointment The sauce which accompanied them tasted like pure Hoisin and I much prefer the typical peanut sauce or even a fish sauce My girlfriends bowl of Bun looked like the noodles were garbage and was extremely short on veggies and meat nnOur server was nice enough and rather typical of a restaurant of this type They do not speak much their way of asking if you would like to order is saying are you done After a while though I realized he was a Spanish speaker and then I realized he was of hispanic heritage nice I come to this Vietnamese place and there are Mexicans working both front and back of the restaurant Made me want some enchiladas Overall this restaurant was a complete let down and if it had not been for the very low price under for two people I would have been very upset I will keep sticking with Little Saigon Pho Thanh Koai Hoan and Dong A