Shooters Sports Bar & Grill
This dual-sided restaurant offers Thai and Vietnamese cuisine along with a game room. The Vietnamese dishes include a range of wonton soups that include pork or shrimp, Bun Thit Nuong noodle dishes and stir fry like Mi Xao Bo with egg noodles and beef. The menu also includes various Thai and Chinese dishes. As a sports bar, it features flat screen TVs, billiard tables, karaoke and a DJ on the weekends.
Shooters Sports Bar & Grill
143 Douglas Ave.
Holland, MI 49424
616-928-0297
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Pho Soc Trang
This Vietnamese restaurant is popular for the pho, or beef noodle soup, dishes. The menu provides a wider range than just this dish, though. It also features a variety of soups, which include clear noodles, egg noodles, rice noodles along with various flavors and meats. The pho dishes include beef brisket, beef ball or tripe. Other dishes found here are roast pork with vermicelli, pork chops and Vietnamese spring rolls. Desserts include native fruits such as lychee, longan or tropical rambutan. Pho Soc Trang is open for both lunch and dinner and offers take-out. It is only a half hour northeast of Holland.
Pho Soc Trang
4242 Division Ave. South
Kentwood, MI 49548-3375
616-531-0755
Golden 28 Chinese Vietnamese Restaurant
This restaurant just a half hour from Holland features Chinese and Vietnamese cuisine. The menu is vast and inexpensive. Pho, a beef noodle soup, is a main Vietnamese dish offered. There are nearly 20 different types of pho dishes to order. Vietnamese egg rolls and pork chops are also offered here. The Chinese part of the menu features a range of noodles, entrees, rice dishes and soups.
Golden 28 Chinese Vietnamese Restaurant
627 28th Street SW
Wyoming, MI 49509
616-531-2800
Article Written By Grant Buchholtz
Based in Boston, Grant has been writing on issues of faith, leadership, and personal growth since 2000. He has written for the "Journal of Evangelical Homiletics Society" and "theooze.com." Grant won the Parish Pulpit Scholarship in 2009. He received both a Master of Theology and Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and has done further graduate work at Harvard Divinity School and the University of Edinburgh.