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I'm definitely questioning those 5-star reviews I'm seeing. Maybe I didn't order the right items or my experience was one-off, but I was definitely not satisfied with my visit here.
Phu Quoc Island is located at the 2nd floor of Times Square, where the former Top Saigon/First Choice was. They didn't do much to it aside from (poorly) replacing the first few Chinese characters and the English letters below. It's still brightly lit and upscale, for what matters.
They had some grand opening specials, which made me wonder whether the variety will be lacking once the whole opening hype dies down. I decided to order from the grand opening specials and a couple of appetizers as well.
I started with a Vietnamese spring roll and a grilled beef fresh roll. These were both actually quite good, and I would be perfectly content to come here just for an afternoon snack to have those items. We also had mix chicken and beef BBQ satay skewers, which wasn't bad but nothing memorable.
For the noodle soup, I ordered the crab meat "tapioca" noodle soup. I was expecting the tapioca noodle soup to be of the thick udon kind, but it was actually vermicelli, which disappointed me. The vermicelli was also overcooked and broke apart too easily. In addition to the crab meat and vietnamese sausage slices, there were also other pork-related ingredients in there such as pig blood, etc. The extra ingredients didn't hide out the fact that the noodle portions were quite small unfortunately.
Free dessert was offered, which was the same as Jennifer K's dessert. For the record, there wasn't much taste to it.
The female servers were both great, but the male server didn't speak much. He never mentioned what noodle soups were being brought out, as my mom and dad both ordered different bowls than mine.
I don't think I'll return here to be honest, unless the elite reviews after mine continue to be 4 star calibre.
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