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Fearless Critic restaurant review
Houston
Food
Feel
Price
8.6
7.5
$15
Chinese, Vietnamese
Casual restaurant

Hours
Sun–Fri 10:00am–midnight
Sat 10:00am–3:00am

Features Date-friendly, kid-friendly
Bar Beer, wine, liquor
Credit cards Visa, MC, AmEx
Reservations Not accepted

www.tantanrestaurant.com

Westchase
8066 Westheimer Rd.
Houston, TX
(713) 977-6682
Hours
Sun–Thu 11:00am–11:00pm
Fri–Sat 11:00am–midnight

Bellaire Chinatown
6816 Ranchester Rd.
Houston, TX
(713) 771-1268
Tan Tan
The original’s our favorite for people-watching, hot pots, and banh bot chien

We love the Bellaire Tan Tan, which keeps Christmas lights eternally running all over the restaurant, while moving-picture waterfalls and stuffed monkeys perched on top of fake palm trees complete the bewildering, but memorable, scene. Best of all, you can eat some pretty good pan-Asian (an oxymoron, usually) until the…

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