Is my taste buds weird or something? Because I don't really see the greatness that is Kinh Do. I really don't. My parents and I decided to try this place due to the high reviews on yelp. Also, when you check in on yelp you get 2 free egg rolls. Yay! FREE FOOD!
When we went in, there was only one server working but there weren't a lot of customers so it wasn't as though we got slow service. The menu was very lacking as far as varieties go. There wasn't much to the menu compared to a lot of other Viet/Pho places that I've been to. I normally get a beef ball with rare steak pho but they didn't have the option. They only had a beef ball pho or rare steak pho ... no combo. But when we asked, they did make a combo for me.
The egg rolls came out first of course. AND I GOTTA SAY: Sorry, I do not like. I took a bite and no longer wanted it. The wrapper they used to wrap it in is very different from what I'm used it. It was more chewy than crispy. I'm not sure if it's their wrapper or if they just re-fry it when a customer asks for it. The fish sauce it came with wasn't very ... good either. But hey, it was free.
As for the pho, well, their soup base is ... interesting. It was very sweet. I'm not really a sweets person so the soup base turned me off. I ended up adding a bunch of siracha to my soup -- my bowl was red by the end of the night. Alas, it was futile. It did not mask the sweetness of my soup.
They actually also forgot to put beef balls into my mother's order. She had ordered the combo with everything along with my father. My father had beef balls in his but mother did not. We had to tell them about it and they had to come out with beef balls in a small separate bowl for my mother. How do you forget something like that...?
I don't think I'd visit again to be honest. Just does not tickle my taste buds. I think I still prefer Pho So 1.