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| - I love pho and I'm always on the quest to find restaurants serving good quality pho. I have tasted pho at some restaurants in Champaign, and my experience had always been a disaster. Either it tasted like bland broth or it was too sweet. I have had good pho in other cities but I was still longing for good pho in Champaign. So during my routine browsing on Yelp,I came across this cafe. I was so happy to know that they serve pho, also it had good reviews. So, immediately I dragged my husband to this cafe. We ordered charbroiled shrimp vermicelli bowl and veg pho ( which they serve from fri-sun).
Food came fast. So, in vermicelli bowl, there were charbroiled shrimps ( ours were not so charred but sautéed, although tasted fine) on boiled vermicelli, some lettuce and carrot juliennes and veg egg roll. Also, it had a dressing on the side. I was thinking that it would taste bland but once I mixed the dressing to vermicelli, the dish went to another level. It was so refreshing. It was like eating a flavorful salad with all the tastes(sour, sweet, salty) combined together in a bowl.
Now, let me talk about pho. The broth was so flavorful, I loved it so much. But, I just had one issue. It had too much of bamboo shoots. Just wished, it had vegetable instead of so much bamboo shoots. Next time will ask them to put less of shoots in my pho.
Overall a great experience. The food is light, so next time I am gonna order few appetizers as well.
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