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| - See the picture that goes along with this review? Looks good, doesn't it? Haha...you've been fooled. That was the dish I ordered most recently because their pho had gone completely downhill from when I used to visit this place frequently many years ago. They started cutting back on so many ingredients, it essentially became 95% noodle + bean sprouts and 5% meat. At those odds, I'm better off eating a McDonald's "100% beef" patty.
This rice noodle dish had 3 meat components and none of them tasted completely natural. The chicken was probably the best, as it was actually the texture of chicken and tasted like there was some real flavour in it. There was a slab of beef wrapped around slices of raw onion. Yes, just raw onion with no real seasoning or cooking. It was so tough, I couldn't tell if the beef was real meat or MSG-flavoured carpet. There were also chunks of beef (?) wrapped in seaweed. Not sure if it was beef because all you could taste was a weird sweetness. The seaweed was soggy.
What was good about this dish? Well the carrots, peanuts, and chives were pretty good. Not because they had any special flavour, it's just that they tasted like what they're supposed to be.
Funny story, when my friend asked for "a table for three", the lady thought he said "a table for free" and promptly told him to get out. Throughout dinner, I'm pretty sure she was watching us in case we actually had no money and bailed. This wasn't relevant to my rating as service at Chinese-run restaurants is kind of...special. Rule of thumb: if they don't argue with you on anything, you're in the clear!
(42/100) - 2016
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