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| - I was never a fan of Vietnamese food. The first time I ever ate it was over ten years ago and thought to myself how I'd never eat it again. I met my ex from Seattle and moved there for about almost 4 years and everywhere I went was a Pho restaurant. After a while I came to fall in love with their food and only in Seattle. I swore that there would never be another Vietnamese restaurant that can compare.
Today, mom decided she wanted to eat Vietnamese and thought what the heck. I drove on Eastern, passed the I-215, and right by the Las Vegas Athletic Club was the restaurant.
When I walked in, mom had already been seated and luckily there was no line. Last time we were here there was a twenty minute wait. It's a somewhat small intimate restaurant with so many tables and chairs so close to one another. So many people talking loudly, and plates clattering, sipping their soup loudly made me wonder if this is actually what it's like in a restaurant in Vietnam. Looking forward to the day I find out through hands on experience.
No time was wasted and I gave my order of a #70. I forgot the name but there was white noodles, some vegetables, herbs, barbecue shrimp, barbecue thinly sliced pork, and spring rolls. The sauce on the side tasted like a sweet fish sauce with carrots and other ingredients to hide the gross smell of fish sauce. I poured that in my bowl and mixed all the food around. I haven't talked about fireworks in my mouth because it's been a while since I've felt that. But, we're gonna talk about that in this review.
FIREWORKS!!! When I put the food in my mouth, I literally felt like I was in the sky with fireworks around me. I can still remember it like it was just a minute ago. Normally, I don't like to eat past being full, but this dish was just too good to not finish. The combination of the pork, noodles, vegetables, and sauce blended well together. Food Network judges talks about texture a lot and this dish is not just mushy noodles and meat, but had the crunch of the vegetables and spring rolls. The different texture was definitely there and worked very well with this dish.
Mom ordered something with seafood pho. It was also very well made with crunchy garlic sprinkled on top. Mom added vegetables and herbs to it which gave it a playful texture. Her pho was also great. All the food was awesome which is why I gave it a 4 stars.
It's just too bad that the servers were far too busy to give any smile to the customers. They're all so serious and don't look very friendly. I'm sure they're very nice outside of work but while serving my mother and I, we didn't get that welcome feeling like they wanted us there. Sure, they gave us water, took our order, brought out our food and finally our check. That's all routine. There was no *umph* to their service. It was just eh and blah.
3 stars to the servers and 4 stars to the cooks. I'm sure they were in a good mood to be cooking AWWWWWESOOMMMMMME!
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