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| - I just moved to Glendale from Northern California, where Pho restaurants are accessible within a mile radius of where I used to live and work. I was craving some home cooked goodness, but since my mom wasn't here to make a stew pot of pho that could feed me for weeks, I decided to try this place with a friend who heard it was the best pho in town.
For starters, walking in, it definitely looked like a Vietnamese joint with the cheap looking chairs, hoison sauce and sriracha sitting on a lazy susan on the side of the table with the typical utensils necessary for pho. I'm kind of used to walking into a pho place and coming out smelling like it, and as much as I was happy to come across this place, it was a bit of a bummer that I couldn't smell the soup from the parking lot.
The pho was good, not great or what I'm used to, but it hit the spot. I'm taking off one star for two reasons. Pho shouldn't be served with shrimp ( I don't know who decided to put that in) but it definitely aint tradition. And the second reason was that the Vietnamese Crepes that I dream about eating when I go home for the holidays tasted borderline nasty. I don't know if it was the grease or just the flavor, but I was a bit bummed that this didn't taste better. My friend can attest that I was very excited to order this to go for dinner!
I think that the rest of the food probably tastes good. I think I want to try their spicy beef noodle and chicken pho. It could have been hit or miss with what I ate that day. I definitely like the service that we got. Some places kind of rush you to get in, eat, and get out, but here, they came by and refilled our water, and checked to make sure everything was ok, so two thumbs up for that!
I'm still on the hunt for the best pho place in town, so if anyone knows of one, wanna shoot me a line??
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