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I was invited to this restaurant and as I stood outside I thought that they might not let me in dressed in jeans and a T-shirt but I under-estimated the power of the long nose. It looks like a very posh restaurant with more wait staff than I have had hot dinners.
Anyway you will need a reservation apparently so don't go on the spur of the moment or you'll be disappointed.
I am not sure why I get all excited about these buffet places but on this occasion, I was completely justified. You can choose from sushi and sashimi to traditional Vietnamese food or fill your boots with a variety of desserts to satisfy even the sweetest tooth.
All in all, you can eat to your heart's content for 270,000VND per person and come out wishing they had a wheelbarrow ready for you.
Definitely worth the money as the food is by far much better quality than many other places. Don't let the posh facade out front put you off.

This is one of the Sen's chain buffet restaurants. I've only tried Sen Ha Thanh and Sen near Ciputra but Sen Ha Thanh is much better. Wider range of food and the food somehow is better hehe. I just wish that the place was a lil wider.

I was given free tickets to the buffet by a mate, who picked them up from someone else as a gift. The Ha Thanh in the name is in a different font and smaller, and so I nearly ended up driving to the wrong restaurant as I looked up Sen on here, and was all set to go to West Lake.

Happily I listened to the voice of reason (my girlfriend, I'm not responsible enough to have such a voice inside my head) and read the address on the card instead. This place is light years ahead of the other place with a similar name.

We booked - not something I'd normally do here, but by the end of the night every table was full - and this was on a run of the mill Wednesday night. The tables are close together, but not so close that you are sitting on someone else's laps, but it can be a bit difficult to navigate to your seat (there was one bloke who repeatedly took about 5 minutes to get back to his table each time, maybe he'd had a few).

The food was fantastic, and there was a good range... sushi and sashimi (neither were stellar, but it was far from being bad), roasted meats, snails and scallops, all the standard buffet stuff, and a range of traditional Vietnamese foods as well at two booths, being prepared and served by a couple of little old ladies much like in other places. The Banh Xeo was cold, though, but yummy.

There weren't too many foreigners there, the two of us, and two more at tables with what looked liked Vietnamese business partners. I'd say it caters to business functions mainly.

The place is nicely decorated, and would be a great place to take visitors to really impress them, but the prices are pretty steep - 195 thousand for lunch, and dinner is 230 thousand Monday to Thursday, going up to 270,000 Friday to Sunday when they have live music.

Its a good place to keep for special occasions