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| - This is the most authentic Vietnamese place I've been to. My parents actually really like going here and my dad regularly eats the blood jello dish, which is literally blood that's thickened into a jello consistency served with peanuts, fish sauce and coriander/cilantro. I don't touch that stuff though.
I've never been to Vietnam but I'd imagine that they'd have little pho shops like this all over the place. The owners actually speak Vietnamese and not Chinese. (Actually, they speak really poor Chinese too - I just remembered that).
The pho is just regular, nothing special. My mom likes that she can order half pho rice noodles and half regular flour noodles and she raves about the chicken broth pho here - again, I think it's just okay. Maybe she likes it because it kind of tastes like her rendition of these dishes.
They also make the "banh cuon" dish, which is a rice flour roll with pork/mushrooms inside and it's not like steamed in a steamer, but are made by having a boiling pot of water and a stretched fabric over-top and cooking the rice flour and water on top of the fabric and then hand rolling it. My dad buys these for take out and they taste really good even after bringing it home, but I feel gross if I eat the whole box.
If you want a truly authentic Vietnamese place to go to - this is it, but if you're looking for taste, ambiance, decor, cleanliness or some kind of excellent service... you're better off going somewhere else.
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