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| - I was craving a hot bowl of Pho on this rainy day, so I decided to try Bong Lua but I was quite skeptical because the previous owners which operated under a different name was quite bad.
I find it really offensive when chinese people open Vietnamese restaurants and serve unauthentic garbage food. For me, I find it disrespectful to the culture, I understand everybody is trying to make a living but at least try to have some pride in the food you serve and keep the food authentic and genuine. I just had to get that off my chest, now to the review.
I ordered a large Pho Dac Biet (Special) and an avocado shake. It was $6.50 for the large bowl which is quite reasonable, especially for how much food you get. The broth had a decent flavour but did lack some complexity. The beef was above average, the noodles were fine but the tendon was of poor quality. All in all, it's an average bowl of pho but better than quite a few of the establishments in Scarborough. The owners and cooks are Chinese/Vietnamese.
One think that really impressed me, is their menu. They offer a lot of Vietnamese dishes that are not offered in Scarborough. They had bun bo hue, bun rieu, banh hoi dac biet, banh cuon, canh chua and a lot more. For example, 90% of the Vietnamese restaurants in Scarborough do not offer bun rieu which is a pretty common soup in Vietnam. I'm definitely going to go back to try some of the other dishes. It's quite unfortunate that they are situated in a terrible location because they definitely deserve to be busier.
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