Kansas City, KS
Kansas City, KS

Appetizer Platter


The Vietnam Café

Appetizer Platter

The Vietnam Café
3934 Rainbow Blvd.
Kansas City, Kansas, 66103
(913) 262-8552
Website
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A roll call worth answering. This platter sets the tone with an egg roll that’s golden, hot and packed with savory pork and cabbage—no filler, all flavor. The spring roll goes fresh and cool, its translucent wrap stretched tight over BBQ pork, shrimp, and mint like a taut drum. Then comes the fried shrimp roll—crisp, snappy, with just enough onion to keep it interesting. The crab rangoon brings contrast: creamy, crunchy, and sweet to play backup to the savory. And let’s talk about those sweet potato fries—perfectly fried, skin-on, crunchy outside, creamy inside, not a limp one in the bunch. This is a platter that doesn’t just roll through the motions—it pirouettes. A crunchy, chewy, creamy showcase of texture, heat, and sweet. Add sauce and let the flavors roll.

DISHED UP BY...

Brad Blankenship

Brad Blankenship is a retired integrative medicine doctor who has resided in Nashville for over 50 years. He, along with his wife Lulu Burns-Keller travel the US in search of new flavors. Together, they write, photograph and review for Beyondish in the Nashville area and beyond.

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