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Just moved to Las Vegas and was looking for a good Pho restaurant. Read the reviews here on Yelp and ventured out to this restaurant. Mistake #1 - Big banner outside saying "Grand Opening 7/11" should have been our first clue that this wasn't Nha Trang but we were hungry so went in. Mistake #2 - empty at noontime on a Sunday, but we were hungry so decided to give it a try. Mistake #3- menu very limited, only had 1.5 pages of items, but we were hungry so ordered.
The egg rolls were terrible. So greasy that the grease dripped off, hardly any filling in it, had a funny taste and something squishy textured in it that left a coating on your tongue, I would swear it was fat or lard. The vermicelli salad I ordered with grilled pork and shrimp was the worst I ever had, I think it is called Bun nuong with thit and tom. The grilled pork was not pork, it was pork fat or some type of fat that was charred to resemble pork. I popped a piece in my mouth and chewed and chewed and chewed getting that greasy coating on my tongue again, so I examined the other pieces in my bowl and saw that it was just pieces of tough fat. Yuck. The nuoc cham (dipping sauce) was red, it tasted like rice vinegar with some sweet and sour sauce mixed in. My son ordered the #8 pho with rare steak, brisket, tendon and tripe. The broth was almost clear like chicken broth not beef. It did not have any tripe or brisket it in but only 2 meat balls and a piece of tendon. We looked at the menu to see if he got the wrong one and saw that none of the Pho's listed had meat balls in it. In fact there was not a meat ball to be found on the menu so how they ended up in his bowl of pho is a mystery as obviously all their ingredients are. He ate the noodles and as we sat there talking about how awful everything was we watched the broth in his bowl separate into a 1 inch layer of fat on top.
Enough said. Awful. 1 star is more than they deserve.
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