Reading up on all the hype surrounding the pork-bone soup, this was obviously what I was most excited about when coming here. I will say that the pork-bone soup was very good. The pork falls right off the bone and the soup is the right level of spicy. I saw almost every other table had ordered pork-bone soup too. It was a hit, to say the least. The soup was the only excellent part of the dinner.
I was with a group of six and we ordered everything to share. The other dishes were good and I was full very quickly. I'm going to attribute that to how oily and fatty most of the dishes were. It was that kind of full. I was expecting that, but I still don't enjoy the feeling.
I didn't have high expectations about the service considering this place is so cheap. However, there were two things that didn't reflect well on the service that I'm not going to let slide:
1) We ordered beers and the server kept bringing them over without opening them. And they weren't twist off. Were we supposed to use the table to open them? One of us had a bottle opener on a keychain so we managed. This is a simple thing that shouldn't have been overlooked by our server.
2) They never cleared our food. We were clearly done and had been for a while. When you're super full the last thing you want to look at is the remnants of what you just ate. Our server even gave us our bill, which we had to flag her down for, and didn't clear our plates then either. Baffling.
If you want delicious fall-off-the-bone pork bone soup, I would suggest trying it here. Don't expect miracles with most of the other dishes or the service.