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My husband and I just moved into Fairview Park and I had a crazy crave for pho at 3pm. Instead of going to the busy downtown area for my usual pho spots, I googled pho places in the area and Phnom Penh came up. I'm usually open to trying new restaurants so I thought why not. And plus, Yelp gave it a 4/5 rating. Pretty good, right?
My first impression? Well, the place on the inside looked beautiful! And when my husband didn't know what to order, the server gave us a book of beautiful pictures of their food. The prices were pretty low as well. This placed looked promising so far, although we did not get our drinks yet until later when we received our food.
My husband asked if there were noodles, meat, and vegetables in the spring rolls. The server said yes so we ordered two of those. Then I went for the large pho ($8, which was a pretty average price for a large pho compared to downtown Cleveland) and my husband ordered the Mi Chha.
My husband wasn't happy when we received the spring rolls. There weren't any meat inside, just little chopped up pieces of shrimp. I wanted to keep an open mind though, hoping my pho would compensate for the less-than-filling spring roll.
I think my husband had enough of this place when I received my bowl of pho. Literally, my pho was like the size of the Maruchan instant ramen noodles in a small bowl. My husband clarified with the server "this is a large?" The server said yes. He then asked how the small looked like. She said "the small is what it looks like in the picture." She brought back out her book of pictures and pointed to two different pictures. She said one picture was the large and one picture was the small. Honestly though, the pictures were CLOSE UP of all the foods. With close-up pictures, all dishes looked the same size. I couldn't help but laugh while I saw my husband's eyes fire up. He just said OK and the server left our table.
At this point, my husband didn't even want to eat anymore. He only finished half his plate (which he said tasted like instant noodle stir-fried) while I only took probably two minutes to eat my sad little bowl of the $8 pho. He paid for our food and we left.
Usually I like to give other places a second chance and I do feel bad giving a family business such a bad rating, but the pho was definitely not worth what we paid for. And also, I haven't seen my husband so angry at a restaurant before. I think for now, we'll just stick to our usual spots.
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