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| - Pho Cuu Long Mien Tay is a Vietnamese restaurant located in a plaza on the Northwest corner of Jane and Sheppard in Toronto.
I use to frequent this restaurant when it was located in a small strip plaza on St.Clair Ave West and usually it was the busiest one with two or three other Vietnamese restaurants located in the same strip plaza. In the Vietnamese community they are known for making amazing fish sauce deep fried chicken wings with sticky rice ($9.25 plus tax) and Bo 7 Mon ($32.00 plus tax) which is essentially translated to seven courses of beef. Their vermicelli, rice and pho dishes are not bad but the fish sauce chicken wings and Bo 7 Mon are the standouts. Not a lot of Vietnamese restaurants offer the Bo 7 Mon option in Toronto.
I went on a recent Saturday afternoon to their new location and ordered the fish sauce chicken wings with sticky rice ($9.25 plus tax) and the Bo 7 Mon ($32.00 plus tax), it was more than enough food for two people.
The fish sauce chicken wings are amazing, the wings are deep fried and because of the fish sauce makes the skin sticky, they have bits of fried garlic bits attached to it. Perfectly cooked on the inside and nice and crispy on the outside but the fish sauce and fried garlic bits gives it a great flavour. Easily can compete with any great chicken wing place in Toronto.
The Bo 7 Mon which is seven courses of beef served Vietnamese style. Rare beef hotpot, beef in tropical leaves, bbq beef rolls, sautéed beef, beef salad. shaking beef, beef congee. They give you Vietnamese rice paper, vegetables and vermicelli. You wet the rice paper, add beef, vermicelli and vegetables roll it up and dip it in the mam nem dipping sauce or fish sauce. Really well done, fulfilling and nice balance of dishes with great flavours.
I definitely recommend Pho Cuu Long Mien Tay and as I mentioned earlier their pho, vermicelli or rice dishes won't stand out in comparison to a lot of other good Vietnamese restaurants in Toronto but their fish sauce deep fried chicken wings with sticky rice and Bo 7 Mon (seven courses of beef) are the standouts and worth going to the restaurant to try these two dishes.
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