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| - Absolutely unimpressive. Went here for lunch yesterday with a couple of workmates. Which was a Tuesday - a day on which, inexplicably, all other Vietnamese restaurants in the area are CLOSED - so at least this was an initial point in their favour. If you've read my other Vietnamese restaurant reviews you'll know that I only ever eat pho (dac biet) and was planning to order that here. Eyes popped out of my head when I saw that they charge $10 for a bowl! There also weren't different sizes for the dish, so I guessed (correctly, as it turns out) that they only had a small size. Still, I decided to give it a shot. I also noticed that their menu was extremely limited - there were almost more varieties of spring roll, which I HATE, than pretty much any other food category. The waiter told us that they were famous for their rolls.. whatever. I got the pho.
It was a small size. Of course.
In fact, the amount of pho in the bowl was positively pissant. Within maybe five minutes I had finished it off completely and was still quite hungry. And just like Saigon Kitchen in Surprise, they served a small fistful of bean sprouts, some pathetic wilted basil, and a couple of tiny slices of lime. Basically a kids-meal-sized amount of garnish. Oh, and a tiny dish with nothing on it (arguably to contain sauce, though there was no sriracha or anything else on the table). The broth was almost tasteless and there were no tendon pieces at all. Trust me, I looked hard. I spent the next ten minutes fishing forlornly, and mostly unsuccessfully, for strands of noodles at the bottom of the broth.
They had a telly showing the Olympics above the bar. Unfortunately, half the communal dining benches face the opposite direction so I had to watch Sally Pearson take gold in the women's 100m hurdles in an ornate mirror. That was the high point of the experience.
They then gave us the wrong bill, which was presented as a receipt pinned to a small block with a cheap wooden clothespeg. Might as well have printed it on a sheet of sh1tter paper too.
Won't be going back. Barely got two stars. I'm happy to wait out the "Vietnamese weekend" - ie Tuesday - in future, and grab a bowl of pho that's twice the size and thrice the flavour for three bucks cheaper at Pho Thanh, Da Vang, Maxim or 43rd Express. If you like spring rolls, knock yourself out. If you like pho, freakin' avoid this place like the plague. Remember, New India Bazaar is a couple hundred yards down the road, and THEY have all you can eat - and all the flavour you need - for $8. I couldn't agree more with Matthew K - the value IS way out of line.
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