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| - After driving past Pho 87 for many months, I decided to read the yelp reviews of this establishment. I was a bit skeptical about the reviews, relating to how great everyone felt the food was. After all it's just Pho.
I have to admit I completely underestimated the food, as well as the atmosphere. I was expecting a tiny dingy restaurant. What I found was a very nice, clean restaurant, with attentive staff and outstanding dishes.
The menu is fairly limited to Pho and noodle style dishes, but the depth of flavors in the food made me wonder why it had taken me so long to walk in these doors.
I had eaten a late lunch and was not really hungry, but decided to accompany my family to Pho 87 to "have a drink and watch them eat". When we arrived I decided to order a noodle dish with egg roll and pork in it, and thought I'd enjoy leftovers for lunch tomorrow. The meal was $9.00 which was on the high end of the menu prices.
Once I started eating, I couldn't put my chop sticks down until I was at the bottom of a very large bowl of veggies, spices, fish sauce, pork, egg roll (I also added a bit of hot sauce to the equation). If the bowl was larger (which I am glad it was not), I would have continued to eat more even though I was not hungry walking in the door.
The other three people I was with each ordered differing Pho dishes (The medium bowl is a very large portion). I saw the bottom of all of their bowls, as well as the smiles on their teeth.
If you are a fan of Viet Nam food (or is it Phood), you should add this to your list of "lets give this a try" places.
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