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| - Honestly, just don't bother with this place. I've been to this place 3 times over the course of working in Liberty Village and in my honest opinion this place doesn't hold up.
1st off, I have to get this off my plate. While I acknowledge that they are places that only accept cash, it's typically in areas where a bunch of vendors will come together and not accept cash. Pho Asia 21, on the other hand still ONLY accept cash, where everywhere else accepts at the bare minimum debit card (and also credit card). But I digress...
Let me get through the positives before I go into the negatives because there are so highlights.
The dish, I ordered (#104L (medium) - Pho Tai (beef tendon / rare beef), the noodles were cooked to my liking, a small bite but not undercooked. The tendon itself was cooked very well and a massive improvement from the 1st time I went where the tendon was hard, unclean and an unpleasant aftertaste. This time, it was cooked all the way through and melt in your mouth (really good). The beef was ok, but considering it's rare beef it came cooked all the way through but I didn't mind...tasty beef.
And....that's about all I have to say with the positives.
So, service wise. As attentive as he was (there wasn't a whole lot of customers), I wasn't provided any tea at all (a slight irritation but since I wasn't in the mood for tea, I kind of let it slide and asked for water instead, during my meal). Overall, he did his job well and brought the food in a timely manner. Heck, even knew when I needed the check, he had it ready (not sure if that's just him wanting me to leave or just good intuition, I'll leave that for you to decide).
The dish I had as mentioned while there were good points, the broth...ugh...it's definitely laced in MSG. Hence probably why I asked for that glass of water because while it tasted great at first, I could feel it on my tongue the desire to drink water like ASAP...that rather uncomfortable numb feeling that I get from my tongue.
3rd off, call me picky or whatever but I just can't stand when there are flies flying around in the restaurant. It makes me wonder whether the dish I'm eating is clean and the fact that I have to be constantly air-swatting my food to keep the fly away just gives me another unpleasant feeling about this place.
My last point, and this isn't necessarily a negative (well kind-of) but pricing wise, it's $0.50 - $1.00+ more expensive than the regular pho places I go to and offer up better quality than this place produces. Their largest bowl is $10.50 which is absolutely massive and ridiculous when it's like $1.50 cheaper elsewhere.
I was hoping for this place to improve, espeically over the number of years that it's been business but honestly, I give up...find somewhere else.
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