Nem Nuong Bistro on Spring Mountain has only been open for five months.

Jonh Dang is the person in charge. 

“When we open it, it’s 40 people. Now we have only 20 people. I fired a lot of people. They’re supposed to know what they doing. You know? I can’t be here babysit them all day.”

Dang wasn’t happy to see his restaurant shut down by the health district with 50 demerits, but he’s taking it in stride.

“It is, what it is, you know? I mean, when the health come in, they shut you down, whatever, two days. You know, we’re around but you can’t say much anything, you know?”

One of the biggest problems inspectors found was potentially hazardous foods including meat, noodles, rice and lettuce, in the temperature danger zone.

He blames a learning curve, saying they recently relocated to Las Vegas.

“Because we from California, and when the health down in California totally different than the health up here,” said John.

Inspectors did note things other than temperature, like utensils and dishes that were dirty, but stored as clean.’

Yama is back open with a zero-demerit A, and Ichiza reopened with a six-demerit A.