I'm a littleee sad that this restaurant isn't my place anymore. There are several reasons why.
1. The pho here is 800% tasteless. If I have to use more than a shake of salt and pepper (in this case it was like I used 50 shakes) then the taste just isn't there.
2. You know when you make soup at home and the fat bubbles up and it sticks to the rim of the bowl? You'd scoop it out so your soup doesn't dissolve into a bowl of fat. For some reason Lac Vien didn't take out the fat bubbles and I wasn't able to remove them as they were already dissolving @_@
3. The beef they used wasn't fresh - you can tell when it's really really chewy that it's been deep freezed for a long time
4. The chicken and porkchop rice my boyfriend got was a huge negative. The meat tasted like it was slapped onto a grill and cooked. That's it - there were no flavours besides smoke.
I usually don't mind spending $$$ on food especially if it was good. & when I do feel terrible about spending $ on a place - then I don't go back.
Time to find another pho restaurant.