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| - Small, cute, cozy little place in the junction. I am Vietnamese and I hate to bash my own people - but the food is subpar and the price point is outrageous for Vietnamese food! We came on a Saturday night as a group of 4. We were hungry. We ordered a large mango salad, a large lotus salad, two x two people roll your own roll platters, a pho ga and a bun bo hue - all to share. I ordered a mango juice - but they forgot to bring it out so I just cancelled it altogether.
Portions are quite small for a "large" salad especially at $10 & $12 per salad. Both salads lacking flavour, could use more fish sauce, fried onions, and herbs, and needs to be more spicy. There is only one size for both the pho ga and bun bo hue - which would be considered a standard small at most other pho restaurants - I have never ever paid more than $10 for pho or bun bo hue in my life and if I did come close to paying that much - it would be for an XXL size. Noodles were not fresh. It seems that there's not a lot of traffic through the junction so turnover of food is slower - noodles seemed old. Bun bo hue had the wrong noodles in them, not spicy enough, and was missing congealed pork blood.
Firstly, their meat selection for the roll your own roll platters were very limited. Pork or tofu. The biggest disappoint about the RYOR was the amount of meat they give you. There is more skewer than there is meat. It is the skinniest skewer I've ever seen ... when they are charging you $30 for 10 rolls - basically $3 per roll. If you go to any other authentic vietnamese restaurant in the city and they happen to offer fresh roll aka banh hoi platters - they give you a lot of meat, veggies, and noodles and will cost no more than $13 and you will be stuffed! We basically paid over $100 for vietnamese appetizers - and we were still hungry. Maybe if Ro House was situated in Yorkville then I could understand why it was so expensive for vietnamese food - ie/ the rent is high. But not for the Junction. We felt ripped off. The 4 of us were still so hungry after that we immediately went down the street to cafe pho nho (@ dundas west and howard park) and had our second dinner there.
This place is geared towards caucasian customers - who will pay more for subpar vietnamese food. If you want the real deal go to a viet restaurant that is actually busy - go to Pho Linh, Cafe Pho Nho, or Pho Tien Thanh...or any pho spot at St Clair and Old Weston Rd.
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