What blows my mind is how this place has a four star rating with 300+ reviews. I have no complaints about the service. It's the typical cut throat Vietnamese service so it didn't bother me. I'm from San Jose, it's normal. This review is on the quality of food.
I don't come here. My family & friends have been here before & they tell me never go. It's not up to our usual Bay Area standard of Pho & the place just doesn't feel clean. It smells like a fish market when you walk in. And don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with a fish market, but a restaurant shouldn't smell that way.
I was here because the group I was with voted to eat lunch here. I was a passenger sooo wherever they went, I did too. I knew to stay clear of the Pho. So I tried their pork mince & green beans. I asked them if they could add garlic but they said they could only replace the pork with garlic. I couldn't have both. Strange. And as if the smell didn't make the ambiance unappetizing, I found a full length piece of hair in my food! I was done.
I don't know what my friend ordered but she let me try this tofu looking dish. You know the smell of a cow pasture? Yeah, it tasted like that. Just never again. I hate giving bad reviews but I wouldn't want someone to experience what my family & friends & myself have.