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I've been to this restaurant before, and while the first couple times it was okay, it was never impressive. I always get Pho Ga (chicken noodle soup), which is okay but not out of this world, still it's a quick fix for Pho when you don't want to make it yourself.
My bf and I usually go to Asie Moderne which is right across the street from Paris Pho, but he'd never been to Paris Pho and we were in the mood for something different, so we decided to head there instead. Worst.mistake.ever!
I hadn't gone to Paris Pho since they changed their sign, I remember the food being fresh in my previous visits. This was not the case this past Friday (May 2nd 2014).
I ordered the Pho Ga as per usual and my bf ordered Som Tam (green papaya salad), so we could share, as well as the chicken shrimp pad thai and I ordered the strawberry smoothie.
The strawberry smoothie was thick, yet quite tasty, the Pho Ga was lacking flavour but at least the ingredients were fresh. This did not seem to be the case for our other orders. Both the som tam and pad thai were disgusting! They both reeked of rotten fish and tasted no better. The chicken and shrimp in the pad thai both tasted spoiled and even the noodles seems to be infiltrated with the smell of rotten fish. What was supposed to be green papaya tasted more like shredded fennel and the spoiled fish taste was over-powering. It was our worst experience ever!
We've both had Som Tam/Som Tum before, (never as good as the Tam Som his mom makes - which is the Laotian version of green papaya salad), but we've eaten tasty ones in restaurants before, this was not the case at Paris Pho.
We both ended up getting food poisoning. Awesome! -_-
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