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| - During my college years, or at least those years I was 21+, I made several late night/early morning trips to Pho Kim Long. Sometimes it was to feed post-clubbing munchies and at other times it was to nurse a post clubbing hangover. Pho Kim Long was always one of the first Pho restaurants that popped up on Yelp when you searched it and in my less than 100% state I remember thinking it as pretty good. But now that I'm a little bit older, wiser, and more sober when I eating here, it is more like 2.5 stars (I rounded up for the good blurry memories).
A bowl of Pho is right around 7.50 which isn't cheap or crazy expensive. You can pretty much order any combination of rare beef, tripe, tendon, meatball, etc. that suites your fancy. They give you a very average portion of everything. One of the things that stops me from giving them more stars is their broth. I feel that it is all about the broth; it is what makes or breaks a bowl of Pho. I just don't find their broth to have very much flavor like other places.
Another reason why I can't justify giving them more stars is because their service is on the slow side. I've been there on more than one occasion and even though they have lots of room and should have figured out a way to handle to their customer flow, I still always find myself waiting for really long periods of time for my food. I don't really order anything fancier than a bowl of Pho so it shouldn't take that long.
I'm sorry Pho Kim Long. I want to like you more because of our history, but you are just another average Pho Joint and nothing special in my mind.
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