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The most striking feature of this joint is that their service is very consistently poor. I'd say I've dined at least 10 times sitting down, and did take out twice. In all occasions, I'd rather have been in a McDonalds, since there you at least know that you can stand in line and be served in due time.
Speaking to the foods that I have tried, the banh mi probably had spam in it (or some other cheap alternative) and lacked cilantro/jalapeno/anything. Even superior pho banh mi tastes better.
Burger is actually well priced, and I consider it the best cost/performance item on the menu (then again, how do you even screw up a burger? all you need to do is use fresh ingredients)
Bacon ramen has decent pork and surprisingly non-mutilated kimchi, but the broth is an odd mix of miso and pork, somehow off-putting. The fried egg isn't mutilated either, but the noodles are not the ramen noodles I am used to, with a very wheaty texture. Honestly I wouldn't mind the ramen if the noodles were normal ramen noodles, and I did ask them to use the rice noodles once. The rice noodles came out broken (how are they boiling these noodles?) and I don't remember the experience being any better. Even disregarding the noodle texture, which could be pretty subjective, I have seen my noodles come out broken multiple times, and the last time I had the ramen it was not cooked throughout, not even an al dente, just straight up uncooked. Since I wasn't there for the noodles anyways and mainly just wanted a hot broth, I didn't send it back and just ate it since the noodles were at least cooked to a pliable, edible degree. I am very dubious as to who is preparing the noodles for the ramen (and probably the pho as well) given my multiple counts of broken noodles and one count of completely undercooked noodles.
For the small bites, I believe I've tried the sweet potato fries, rangoon and gyoza.
They are all just so-so, decent in pricing and performance. I would rate the fries over the rangoon over the gyoza.
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