Tran's @ Mosman

There is one friday in each month that we have neither prayer meeting or home fellowship. For this month of September, Hubby and I decided to go out for dinner for a little celebration, cos he just got a bonus from work. Nowadays getting a bonus is really rare, a lot of companies would rather keep their excessive profit to themselves rather than sharing with their fellow staff members! However, this year all the bonus went into our air-con system which we just recently installed, but I reckon we should still have a celebration for my hubby being so hard working in the past year!!! =)

I asked my hubby to pick a restaurant that he wants to go to... and I'm not surprise that he picked a restaurant that we've previously been to before. Yes.. he's not very adventurous or creative in terms of finding places to eat! I guess I should be proud of him already because he didn't suggest KFC to me!

Anyway, Hubby picked Tran's - a modern vietnamese cuisine on Military Rd in Mosman. The first time we went to this restaurant was probably still in the early days that we started going out! Oh yes... that's yonks ago! I still remember that we had a competition over who can scoop out the longest coconut flesh out of a young coconut without breaking! hahaha... I remember that we did have a good time there, and the food were delicious!

Young fresh coconut

To refresh our good old memories, the first thing we ordered the night was - two fresh young coconut please!

The interior decor in the restaurant hasn't changed - plain yellow wall with photos of vietnam. Staffs dressed in the traditional vietnam costume were friendly and quick to service. They are real professional waitress who didn't need pen and paper to take down our orders, everything is just in the mind!

Ok... we ordered spring roll for entree - yeah... not very adventurous at all, but somehow I felt like spring rolls... =P then we ordered Lemongrass Pork Belly, and Prawn Curry in Young Coconut as main.

As we were sitting there, we could see the owner went around to a few different tables and chatted away, you can just tell that alot of customers are long term faithful customers there! And they didn't even need a menu to order their food from, because they've already got their favourites in mind!

Crispy spring rolls

Here comes the entree... 2 spring rolls! It looked pretty average, and after the first bite, it was actually quite disappointing. It didn't have the crispiness that it should have, and there was a lack of flavour in the filling. The dipping sauce was actually quite mild which didn't help in adding more flavour in. =(

Lemongrass pork belly with fresh rice noodles and mint

Now we have all our hopes in the mains. First arrived on the table was the Pork Belly - the size was quite generous, and it served with fresh rice noodles, peanuts and mint. The pork belly was nice and crispy yet still juicy, it's not oily like some, and important of all you cannot taste the fatty meat of the belly!! The lime and fish sauce dressing I reckon can have a little bit more flavour to it. The rice noodles and mint helped to neutralise the meaty taste of the pork belly, making it a bit more refreshing!

Prawn curry in young coconut

The Prawn Curry was the winner of the night! Not only because it was full of meaty prawns, but the curry sauce was awesome. It was quite mild, but the texture was nice and thick - just the way I like my curry sauce! We scooped the last drop of the curry out of the coconut shell, and of course how could we let go of the coconut flesh that was covered with the delicious curry sauce!!!! Hahah...

Young coconut drink dismantled!!!

We didn't end up ordering any dessert, simply because the dessert menu didn't look very attractive, plus we were full to the brim, and we still have the coconut flesh from our fresh young coconut drink to finish off! However this time we couldn't have a competition, because the opening was too small for the spoon to dig in! We had to ask the waitress to open up the coconuts for us, so we can polish off the flesh! hahaha.. we don't let anything go to waste! I wonder whether Westerners actually do what we do - eat the coconut flesh as well, cos we didn't see any people in the restaurant as crazy as us! Anyway, I gave up half way through, because I was just way too full!!!!!

Sorry guys... the photos were not great, because I didn't have very good lighting inside the restaurant!! =(

Tran's

523 Military Road,

Spit Junction, Mosman