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| - Ok, Mr. Hoang Bach. You coerced me to come into your family's restaurant to try it out, and so I had to take you up on the offer and now I am here writing your review. (Just for anyone reading, I've known Hoang since 4th grade and he has NEVER informed me that his family owns one of the best Vietnamese joints in the valley.) I'm surprised he would want me to write a review because I'm highly critical. So here we go:
Chandler Pho, you're freakin amazing. I wish I can take your cooks home with me.
As an appetizer, my husband and I always go for the egg rolls. Now, we're die hard Saigon fans (as I stated in my review for AZ Pho & Grill in Gilbert) and I have yet gone to a restaurant that can top them. Welp, I found one. Now the only difference between P.C and Saigon is that P.C's egg rolls use chicken and Saigon uses pork. Slight difference in taste, but I gotta admit, the chicken is pretty damn good. It definitely gives it a "lighter" taste and I can bet it has far less calories than the pork (win win). I got their Thai Iced Tea, and again, super delicious.
Now, my husband and I both got our regular go to pho: Ph Tái (eye of round steak pho). Our opinion, again, just fabulous. They gave us AMPLE amounts of sprouts, thai basil, two giant slices of jalapeno, and juicy lime wedges. The taste was great and not too greasy. You can definitely taste the spices; far from bland. In other words, you can taste the love in this soup.
We saw that there was a kids menu and I definitely applaud them for that. Very rarely do you see a kids menu at a Vietnamese joint, let alone one with quite a few decently priced choices. We ended up getting the chicken lo mein for our two year old daughter. Sadly, she ended up not eating it because she was absolutely obsessed with our pho. But I gotta say, I've never had better lo mein. Seriously, I've been to NUMEROUS Chinese places and this by far, is the best lo mein I've ever had in my life.
The atmosphere is quaint. On the smaller side, but who cares. Better get there before the dinner rush. Servers were very polite and were prompt to get us what we requested. It was clean and decorated well.
I give Chandler Pho 5/5 stars. Not because I know someone who has the in, but because they genuinely have amazing food. I will recommend them to all my friend's who want to try great pho and egg rolls.
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