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| - My husband and I came here for lunch and we ordered the house special beef noodle soup, two size smalls, one for each of us, and the bbq pork balls. The pork balls were good--nothing to write home about. But it was soup that turned us off to this place. Usually the broth for pho is aromatic and nuanced. The broth we got was flat and tasteless--even with the herbs and lime added. The rice noodles in pho usually have that chewy, delicious texture and the noodles we got were rubbery and weird. It tasted like pho from a crappy instant noodles package. Not very good. We spoke to the waiter about it and he offered a different item. So I ordered the vermicelli with bbq chicken, shrimp on sugar cane, and rolls. I've had this dish multiple times and this was by far the worst bowl. The chicken tasted old and definitely not that smoky bbq flavour that one would expect from this dish. Anyway, the waiter came back and said that they were training a new chef, apologized, and invited us back again. But $30 later, this experience has ruined this place for me. Two stars because they acknowledged the chef was in training but honestly, this was a bad meal and they should have done something more, especially since we wanted a delicious steaming bowl of pho--not to be guinea pigs for their new chef.
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