10 years ago, this place changed my life!!!
I attended ASU and graduated back in 2000. During my senior year some of my Chinese friends and I (I'm Chinese too) decided to go eat pho @ Khai Hoan. Up until then, I lived my life pho-less and oriented my dining experiences around a majority of the chain restaurants that are littered around the Phoenix. I say "litter" because a majority of them really are rubbish... I'll cover those in other Yelp review(s).
So we head over and I first notice that Khai Hoan doesn't have much street appeal and to be honest, before they revamped their interior within this past year, it wasn't that great looking on the inside either...
But I quickly found out, that doesn't matter ONE BIT. This place rocks. I'm no stranger to soup and initially thought this was a variation of a ramen soup meal but I was so wrong. The broth packed an amount of flavor that would seem impossible to cram into a liquid that was so thin. The meat was soft and I found myself inhaling the noodles and broth to make up for the nearly 20 years of NEVER HAVING PHO...
Since then, I've been making up for that injustice. I've been having pho nearly once a week or sometimes even more often than that and have been going on a spree to convert my friends to being pho-fans.
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