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  • When my wife and I were dating at the turn of the century, we often ate at Tay-Do. Back in those days, the restaurant took up two or three of the store fronts in the slightly shabby little strip plaza it occupies on Snow Road at York Road. There used to be lots of lights, big screens, art, Asian Karaoke - a definitely party atmosphere accompanied by a fairly extensive menu that included many wonderful Vietnamese noodle, soup, and rice dishes, stir-frys and simmering clay pot dinners with whole fish. It was just exotic enough while also being welcoming. But times and circumstances change, and Tay-Do is now a much smaller operation, still run by a husband and wife team in a reduced form from those days in the late 1990s. They are older now (me too!), but the food is just as good even though the offerings are much scaled back. As is my wintertime tradition, I came in for Pho. The traditional Vietnamese noodle soup is my go-to whenever I need a pick me up or a vaccination against whatever creeping crud is currently en vogue in the Parma Schools for my younger kids to anoint me with - and the Pho here is good, although not quite to the the level of my go-to Pho, which (against common wisdom in NE Ohio) is at Minh Anh on Detroit Avenue with Superior Pho, the popular choice, a very close second. The broth is king in a good bowl of Pho and the broth was rich and cinnamon-y with a healthy amount of coarsely cracked pepper. The noodles were good (one difference - at Minh Anh they make the noodles from scratch, I didn't get that sense here). I chose meatballs and rare beef; the meatballs were good as was the beef but I would have liked more of the beef. The condiments served alongside were the usual; Thai basil sprouts, bean sprouts and lime but no slices of hot peppers as is often served. I am not sure if this may be a regional variation of the dish that the cook brings with them, but I like them. Of course there was Sriracha and Hoisin sauce. All that said, I enjoyed the Pho. And I'm happy that these people, these two older people, are still making delicious food in Parma. When we used to eat there twenty years ago, it was a family business - there were younger people waiting tables and even their younger children were bussing and setting tables - sadly, a family business that the now-grown children may not maintain. I did have a brief chat with the older gentleman about the old days of the place; I wish I could come in and order the clay pot fish again! But there is enough on the current menu for me to make a few new memories with my now college-age daughter who coincidentally was born one night after we ate at Tay-Do. My wife went into labor in April, 1999 after eating a wonderful seafood stir-fry we knew only as G-6 on the menu. We don't think the food was the trigger, but you could definitely do worse...we ordered it so often but it's another casualty of the scaling back of the business. Sad but time does pass. Try Tay-Do if you are seeking Vietnamese food in Parma. It's good, and sometimes driving downtown or to Gordon Square doesn't make much sense. I think of it as a local place to get the medicine I'll need to survive another NE Ohio winter and I hope the proprietors hang on for a good while.
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