Quick, simple, filling food, which I feel is very much in the spirit of pho. I personally didn't find the beef too tough or the noodles under-cooked: quite the opposite, the amount of beef you get for a under-$10 bowl of soup is excellent and the noodles weren't mushy, as rice noodles can sometimes been in soup. Also, the service is wonderful and the setting so urban 80's-diner that it's impossible not to relax.