I have been eyeing this place for quite some time now. Every week I drive by it right after volleyball and I have been itching to stop by for the past half a year. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore and I just had to dive in.
The soup is HOT, so hot it hurts immensely so beware. It felt like drinking boiling oil. LOL It's not a complain but rather a compliment. I would rather have second-degree-burns inducing soup than something that is lukewarm. However, perhaps this is also one of the things that might have inadvertently ruined the pho...just a little bit. The heat from the soup further cooked the al-dente noodles to overdone. Not a mood killer but still, it need not be so damn hot! Luckily the broth is quite tasty and full flavour.
The beef in the soup is negligible. Nothing worthy of mention here other than that it's just your standard plain tasting, super thinly sliced cuts of beef. It was so thin it actually clumped up in the soup and of course it's fully cooked once immersed in the 200 degree soup.
The vermicelli was also not worthy of mention. The grilled meats are okay in terms of flavour but a little too dry for my liking. There is inherently not enough meat-to-noodle ratio but you do get way too much noodles for your money. In fact that's true for the pho as well; giant portions for the price.
Go if you must but there are better ones out there.