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Fresh herb & veggie side:
2 lime wedges, bean sprouts, and branch of Thai basil this is the minimum but it was all fresh.
Avocado milk shake: $4.75! For a tall sized Starbucks to go cup, more milk than fruit. Still tasty but not like other places where you can turn your cup upside down, the thickness and richness wasn't there.
Tom yum seafood noodles:
A sweeter spice missing the other elements of heat and fish sauce but very flavorful and tasty nevertheless. Fish balls somehow tasted dried inside, never had that before but I'm not sick the next day so dunno what happened there, shrimp a tad over cooked but noodles were good.
Pho special:
Broth very tasty and flavorful, meat was more medium than rare, soft enough and comparable.
The ambience on a weekday lunch was very sad, very dim lighting, no music, just background noise of clanking China and chopsticks, slurping of noodles and cp24 on the tv. The vibe could have been easily changed with some background music and better lighting.
Service was fast and more friendly than most pho places and they take vicinity card fo
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