Comments on: The Scent of Green Bamboo https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:17:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: And, Three More! – SaltShaker https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo#comment-282314 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:17:34 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo#comment-282314 […] been seven years since I first reviewed and six years since I re-reviewed Green Bamboo, Costa Rica 5802 in Palermo. I’ve probably been back twice in the intervening time, and had a […]

]]> By: Bite Marks #112 – SaltShaker https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo#comment-274409 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:24:40 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo#comment-274409 […] food stand along the pedestrian food-way in Barrio Chino. Now, I could just refer you back to my original 2006 review of the place, or my re-review ten years ago, because nothing much has changed. Maybe the food is a […]

]]> By: Bite Marks #62 – SaltShaker https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo#comment-268214 Thu, 13 May 2021 13:01:27 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo#comment-268214 […] might have been wondering (probably not, but might) how I happened to know Green Bamboo‘s price for summer rolls. It was because I gave a shot at a delivery order from them […]

]]> By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo#comment-213133 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:26:16 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo#comment-213133 In reply to Sarah G. – From the world.

Sarah, the question might be “when?” you went – based on your own blog, I’m guessing it was sometime from December of last year on since that seems to be when you started writing about places in BA. This review is from six years ago, with a followup from five years ago. I haven’t been back since, so who knows? At the time, it was better than our first visit which was mediocre, but it’s not like we were blown away. As to over-rated – who’s rating it highly? Our local online food guide Guia Oleo certainly doesn’t; and it gets mixed reviews from the various tourism guides, some like it, others don’t, but no one that I’ve seen is wowed by it – again, that could depend on when they last visited it and rated it. I have to ask – if you went once and it was awful, why go back, and if it was awful the second time, why go a third?

]]> By: Sarah G. - From the world https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo#comment-213132 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:04:50 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo#comment-213132 Lucky you. I went there 3 times and all of them, awful. This place is very overrated.

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Lotus Blossom https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo#comment-168718 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:02:12 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20060125/the-scent-of-green-bamboo#comment-168718 […] Green Bamboo – Our only real Vietnamese option here, and once I discovered the fine print that says they’ll make stuff spicy on request, I really like the food. I like the room too. I like the service. I don’t like the noise level, which is primarily the result of the blaring hip-hop music that seems to be the regular listening fare. Again, it’s a place that the atmosphere, for me, makes it hard to go back, much as I like the food. […]

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