Taydo Vietnamese & Chinese Restaurant

The owners were a cute couple. Welcomed me when I walked in. There were no other patrons at the time (a Tuesday). I was so excited to get my takeout home because the smells emanating from my bag was amazing. Sadly, my entrée was a little on the skimpy side. The flavor was delicious but the amount of meat and veggies was a little disappointing. Maybe it’s just me and my being used to big portions (I do love to eat haha) but it was very underwhelming. I will try this place again to give it a fair chance and will update my review. I hope my second experience goes a little better. Again, great flavors, just underwhelming in the portion department.

I went here for phở, and it was supposed to come with steak, beef balls, and other meat. It only came with flank steak and nothing else. The broth was also very greasy. Not the best. Okay, but will not be back.

Awesome place! My girlfriend and I stumbled onto this gem when me moved to the area and we’re glad we did. The employees, a little woman who works the front and a man in the kitchen who cooks everything up, are the nicest people and the food is amazing! You would never think so by the looks of the place but I assure you that this place is a diamond in the rough. We come here once a week now and always get the same thing. The Phở is always spot on and the chicken fried rice #14 is the best we have ever had! Definitely recommend trying this place out at least once and I bet you’ll keep coming back again and again.

Best Vietnamese in town. 61 beef stir fry is my all time favorite Asian dish anywhere !

**********IMPORTANT INFORMATION********: The timings mentioned on Unilocal and even on Google are misleading. We went for dinner at the restaurant at around 8.45pm on a Friday night and found it closed ( Unilocal and Google both mentions closing time 11 pm). The timings chart on the door of the restaurant indicates it gets closed at 8pm EVERYDAY.
So please call the place as you plan to go there.

The food is disgusting and tasteless… But the lady with the long hair is definitely something else. She’s scary PERIOD. My dad was like, please don’t bring me back here at night. I can barely understand her English… She just stands right next to you and stares at you when you order.
I will not have an appreciate for Vietnamese food for awhile… It’s so disgusting… Yuck! Still have a bad taste in my mouth

After seeing the solid 4 star rating for Taydo, my coworker and I were excited to check it out. We ordered carry out and were a bit disappointed.
The flavors were ok — slightly bland nothing that I’m going to crave or dream about.
I ordered the #4 potstickers ($ 6) and the #88 phở xao tom with chicken. ($ 9.95)
For the price, the food is very lacking in substance — tons of noodles or rice and very little meat and veggies. In the #88 I could count maybe 6 – 8 small pieces of chicken. The minimal veggies that were there were well cooked and crisp.
The potstickers had ok flavor and a good ratio of meat filling to dumpling skin, but the pork was very gristly and I found myself needing to ‘classily’ spit out several inedible pieces per potsticker. The sauce cup was filled half full (which is sad as sauce was tasty and a little extra may have given me something to rescue my #88 with).
I will probably not be trying this place again as there are too many options that are far better in flavor, quality and value within driving distance of my work.

Mom n pop type shop. Glad to find it in Parma. I recommend the Lemongrass Shrimp & fried rice. Yummy, cheap Viet food.

I love this restaurant! It’s better than superior phở, in my opinion. We come here once a week for phở. The potstickers and beef broccoli are delicious as well. The service is great, very friendly.

oh man, i’m so conflicted.
first this is a hole in the wall for sure. there is no ambiance or décor. the old lady pointed with one finger without speaking, just signalling for us to sit down. a little eerie… we get some noodle soups and we start eating and it’s pretty tasty.
and then i happen to notice some floating black things. must be pepper or something… i happen to look closer… looks like there’s legs on it… i look closer on purpose now… multiple floating black things with legs… omg so many… ahhhhhhh
well that’s it for my meal. i’m so disgusted. we examine my partners soup. no floating black things. i got the veggie noodle soup if that matters. maybe there were things in the vegetables that they didn’t wash out.
sigh.
this happened the second time i came here and sadly i cannot bring myself to go back again.

Had an awesome new years day dinner there. Ordered the Phở Xao Chay and instantly fell in love with it. It was slightly sweet with plenty of fresh crunchy veggies. I highly recommend. The older woman working, even though she didn’t speak english very well, was helpful in helping our table order since we had a lot of Vietnamese first timers with us. Will definitely go back.

SUCKS! The owner is so RUDE! Will never go back to that place! Worst decision of my life!

Amazing phở even though place looks dirty. Defiantly your hole in the wall. Absolutely amazing

Very good Phở. Portion-​wise, I’d say on par with Superior Phở, maybe a bit better. The broth was awesome but maybe I mixed my hoisen and srir racha sauce better: D
Wish they had combination meals though. Phở, Sandwich, Drink.

Well, that was… okay.
With all of the excellent Vietnamese restaurants in the Cleveland area, it took me awhile to come down to give Taydo a try. But with four stars on Unilocal,we couldn’t pass it up.
We came on a Saturday night and we were the only ones in the restaurant. Don’t know if this is the bad part of Parma or what, but other reviewers are right that nobody seems to come here. The whole place felt sort of like a run-​down hole-​in-​the-​wall mom and pop restaurant. The experience was kind of surreal, actually. We had a phở and a vietnamese noodle salad. The noodle salad was pretty typical and tasted decent. The phở broth was decent, not particularly flavorful, but the meat was overcooked and there was not enough of it. Overall, my experience was very much okay. If there weren’t better phở options in town, I guess I might come back.
They don’t really have Chinese food on their menu.

Not the best Phở I have had, but the broth is top notch. Also the inside is divey but I like it. The couple that run the place are the salt of the earth.

One of the best phở places in cleveland. Owned by a husband and wife (there is a language barrier), its definitely a hole in the wall, but appearance isn’t everything! I drive from north ridgeville to come out here I love it so much. I’ve never had a bad meal here. I always get a number 4 and number 30.

This place is awesome. Forget about the cry babies. If u are looking for authentic this is the real deal. Soups are great. Bowls are great. The owner is great. The service was fine. She doesn’t speak English well but good enough. This place rocks. It’s not pretty it’s not fancy. It’s just great food.

Don’t eat here the people are not honest… They say they’re open they’re not open open close open close open close. Are they doing me a favor by opening the restaurant? I don’t think so. I don’t want to eat anything that this restaurant serves if they lie to you when they’re open and not open. I made two trips to attempt to go to this restaurant only to find that they did not open their doors when they said they were open. I even called the restaurant 20 minutes before I got there and she said they were open but when my husband and I went to the door and knocked on the door and the lights were on they did not open the door so we left and I will never come back!

Service: sub par
First I waited about 10 minutes to place my order when I was the only customer. They were busy preparing a pick up order. Then, when I did order, they did not have the spring rolls anymore. So, I ordered the Phở Dac Biet and Café Sua Da and ordered in their Vietnamese name. The lady kept shaking her head and asked «what number?» As if didn’t speak any Vietnamese. I’ve ordered these far too many times in Vietnamese to not have pronounced them incorrectly. The lady goes back in the kitchen and started busting out in Vietnamese.
Food: sub par
First, they did not have the spring rolls on the menu. When the phở Dac Biet came, it was lacking a lot of meat, although the broth was very delicious. Café Sua da didn’t take like any of the Vietnamese coffee I’ve tasted in my life.
Price: average

I’m right in the middle after having had a decent but not amazing lunch here. The restaurant is a bit of dive in a neighborhood that lacks charm. This doesn’t turn me off, as some of the best ethnic restaurants I’ve been to everywhere in the country fit that description, although I’d be happy to see the sad carpeting go. It’s been noted by other Unilocalers that this is a mom and pop operation… I reiterate it here to make a point, which is that there is one person waiting on people (mom) and one person cooking (pop). This can make for some long waits for your food, even if you call ahead, as I did. To be fair, I was quoted a half hour between my call and pick up, and that’s about what it was. However, there was only one table occupied when I arrived, and they had one to go order ahead of mine, so when it’s busy??? The woman who waited on me was very nice, although we went back and forth a bit as to what I ordered, partly because of the language issue and partly because #81 on the menu is listed as pork meatballs, when I had ordered pork on the stick. They got it right, but it was confusing for me.
I skipped the phở, as I like to eat that while dining in, and had the bun, aka rice vermicelli noodles, which I ordered with pork on a stick (lovely description… kabob style) and the spring rolls. The pork was nicely marinated and flavorful, although the crowding on the wooden stick had created pieces that seemed not fully cooked. Plus, it was just not enough meat. The spring rolls were tasty, the noodles were done perfectly, with no clumping, and the veggies that traditionally accompany this dish were present and fresh. Again, a decent offering but not the best I’ve had. I will update this review after trying their phở.

Since falling in love with Tay Do, their food has been on my mind a lot lately. My wife said she was going to Chipotle for lunch and I asked if she would go to Tay Do instead. She agreed! Woohoo!
This time, we ordered #14 Com Chien Tom with chicken, #17 Banh Xeo, and #90 Phở Xao Dac Biet. The #14 and #90 were delicious once again! The new dish was the #17. It was 6 crepes filled with chicken, carrots, beansprouts, and other veggies. The flavor was delicious and the portion was gigantic. Six crepes is enough for three people!
We ordered takeout and were told 40 minutes for preparation. When my wife arrived, there were four tables being served and the lady was asking people to leave. Hey, the services isn’t stellar, but the food is. Its just a husband and wife, who is not afraid to tell you what to do. There are no other servers or cooks at Tay Do, to my knowledge. In addition to the 40 minute prep-​time, my wife waited an additional 15 minutes in the restaurant, so they threw in a salad and a couple more crepes, which is probably why I received 6 of them. The husband and wife both apologized for the long wait, but also asked my wife to sit at a table where they served her tea.
Their amazing flavors must come from the oil that they cook with. I want to know what is in the secret sauce because it is very tasty.
I love the food.

I am in love with this place. Yes, the wait for the food is longer than most restaurants, but I’ll take a slow mom and pop place with authentic food over a chain restaurant anyday.
I am a vegan and they had many options for me. My favorite? The #85. My yeastes buds danced with joy!

Now usually I would give less stars on service but my friends fore warned me that the service will be slow but the food will be outstanding! Both are true. Here comes the «But», it is a husband and wife duo that do everything. The wife runs front of house while the husband does all the cooking. That is why it can seem slow because it is just the 2 of them running the place.
I tried a little bit of everything from a bite of spring rolls, to a bite of #21 which is the most fantastic shrimp dish I have ever tasted! I even tried the shrimp with the shell on because it was THAT perfectly cooked! I ordered the Pork Fried Rice and the #30 Phở to go. The cinnamon broth in the the Phở is such a great flavor combination with the meat!
Everything is made to order and you can tell!

This is a true mom and pop shop. The atmosphere is divey but the food is great and well priced. The service is a bit slow, but we were in no rush and found it to be relaxing. We had the #29 Phở and #85 fried tofu veggie noodle magic sauce deliciousness. Highly recommend!

We were in th mood for phở but we really didn’t want to drive the distance to Superior Phở so we decided it was time to try something new. Unilocal showed me a place closer to home which happens to be this place. As soon as we walked in, it was empty and we got service quickly. Once we got our food, people started piling in! The owner is the only one providing service so as more people come in, the service becomes slow but definitely worth it. This place is definitely a hidden gem!
The place looks pretty run down and you will sink in the booth when you sit down. And if someone is sitting behind you and moving around. you will definitely feel it and get pushed around if you aren’t as big as the person sitting behind you. Now let’s be honest. I didn’t come here to critique the area. but to critique the food and boy oh boy! My palate is definitely satisfied!
We ordered the number 1 appetizer which was the fried egg rolls and you can tell it was homemade. You could actually see the meat and vegetables inside the wrap.
The iced coffee is definitely better here compared to what we are used to. Not too sweet and you can actually taste the coffee.
Now for the main course!!! I had the number 30 phở! When I had my first taste of the broth I was in love!!! It was clear unlike the broths I was used to and it tasted so absolutely amazing! It’s basically the cat’s meow! The broth really didn’t need anything to it since the broth was already full of flavor! Basically I was already full but kept drinking the broth because it is that good! There was a generous portion of noodles but not that much meat. The cost of the meals were very reasonable and delicious!
I will definitely come back here with others to try more stuff. I’m really happy I finally found a place with good phở that is close by to my house. I honestly feel like this place will now be my go to for phở when I’m not in the Chinatown area.

It’s my favorite vietnamese restaurant I’ve been to in Cleveland. The wife who owns the restaurant’s name is Hi, and her husband does the cooking and runs teh credit card machine. She’s very nice, not very talkative but that’s probably the language barrier. Stops by frequently when we’ve been there to check if food is good and if we’d like more to drink.
We always start with the potstickers. They’re homemade, thicker dough outside, very good. Comes with a typical potsticker sauce for dipping.
Wife got the number 30? bowl of phở. The bowl was roughly the size of Superior Phở and as you know, that’s a good size. Flavor is very similar, wife thinks there is slightly less soy, and will add a splash if she feels in the mood.
I get a vermicelli noodle dish with whatever meat I feel for the day.
By the end of the meal my wife usually has half a bowl of soup to bring home and I’m full, which is a good thing as I like to eat.