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| - I'm torn. Really torn. Is it 3 stars? No, but is it 2 and a half? Is it 2?
I'm not sure and I'll let you make up your own mind after you read this.
Pho House is in a crappy strip mall in a crappy neighborhood. When you walk inside, it looks a little crappy there too. Now that you've read that and you're still reading, I'll tell you more.
The food is good. It's not REALLY good, but it's just slightly better than just OK. I've had the Pho, and I've had the #1 ---BBQ'ed pork chops with an egg and rice and Vietnamese sausage.
The Pho is good. Close to excellent. The bowls are not as huge as other places, but it's by no means a small bowl. You won't be hungry.
The Spring Rolls don't have mint in them. I'm sad, but the guy who takes the orders and serves the food says that he can't argue with the cook. That's the way she makes them...they're also really chewy. Not great.
The #1 was very disappointing. The rice was old, the sausage may possibly have been rotten. The egg--how can you screw up an egg? was OK. The pork chops were cooked in a delicious seasoning, but they were really overcooked.
The drinks are horrendously over priced, but fresh and pretty tasty. I don't recommend his Thai iced tea. he makes it thicker than I like, but his strawberry smoothies are pretty bomb.
I've brought two different people with me the two times I've been there and both of them have told me that the food is great---note, they both had Pho and Spring Rolls. Personally, I think it can't even touch Pho Than--HOWEVER, the guy who serves us is a total sweetheart, and Pho House is closer to me than Pho Than is.
Major kudos goes to the man who runs the front--I really need to learn his name next time. He's obviously not ever been trained in restaurant work, but he's SUPER DUPER nice.
Next time I go (and there WILL INDEED be a next time) I'm sticking to the Pho and I'll be happy. Everything else is suspect. LOL!
Well, I drove by, realizing that contrary to what I wrote in my review, I had NOT returned to Pho House, and they have closed. I feel bad for them, but this was not a complete surprise.
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