My experience here was fair. I got the rare beef and beef ball pho. The noodles were boring, there wasn't much seasoning or thought put into the recipe, and the "beef balls" (which were not prairie oysters) were inedible stiff spheres of blech. But I only paid a few bucks and I was almost full afterward. In fact I paid for mine and my friend's meal here and it was still MUCH cheaper than my lunch at Fresh. So it may just be a matter of getting what you pay for...and they don't hype it otherwise. I don't have any plan to go here again with so many other Vietnamese places within a block, but I wouldn't avoid this place either. I'll just order something else from their encyclopedic menu.