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| - I love pho. However, I've never been to Charlotte so having gone there for a dragon boat event and someone in my group wanted Pho, i turned to the trusty yelp to find me a spot to try.
The restaurant is a stand alone restaurant in a strip mall type plaza. Its a clean small-ish (well ok maybe it was medium sized) restaurant. We all got pho -- i got the special which had tripe, tendons, meatballs, and beef. Unlike the spots we frequent back home, the tripe and tendons were there in chunks --- there is no hiding those delectable hunks of meats. The meatballs were cut in half, similar to everywhere else i go. The one thing that makes this a 3 star for me is there is no option of ordering a smaller bowl -- i typically will get a small since the large sizes are way too much food for me -- the restaurant has a one size fits all approach on their phos. In addition, the broth was too cinnamon-ny for me. While some people may like this, its not my preference.
Now I always get a cafe su dat as well, this one was a bit different from what i'm use too. The places we go to often will bring out the coffee, brewing on what is similar to a french press, and then you get to pour and stir it into the sweetened condensed milk and ice. Again, the coffee flavor wasnt my favorite, the places i go here in MD/VA use Cafe Du Monde's hickory coffee blends.. but it was ok.
Would I visit the restaurant again? Sure. There was a decent pho (slightly more cinnamon flavor than i like but still good), it was clean, there were attentive wait staff.
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