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| - I may have found my new favourite Vietnamese place. For one thing, other than a couple of tables of office workers, the restaurant was full of Vietnamese people. Also, the prices were very reasonable, and it's pretty easy to get to.
I got takeout from this place and based on Dong L.'s review, tried the Bún bò Hu. Sweet mother of mercy! The menu describes it as "'Hue' style beef & pork with vermicelli soup." Although correct, it would be like describing a Picasso as "dabs of paint on canvas".
I took the package to work and opened up the styrofoam container to find it brimming with shredded cabbage, some other stringed vegetable, herbs, bean sprouts, noodles, beef and some sort of ham. I opened up the accompanying soup container and got instantly punched in the face with a heavenly fragrance of spice and herbs. Inside the soup were slices of pork hock and blood jello. I put it all together and may have had the best soup noodles I've ever had in my life. The soup was a little salty, but all is forgiven as everything else surpassed my expectations.
I can't wait to go back and try out the other stuff on their menu, including the giant pancake that some lady got, stuffed with... I don't know, I didn't want to stare.
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