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This place was quite interesting; my impressions of this place was Thai influenced Vietnamese food, hence "Thai Tai Vietnamese Restaurant" I guess lol. They have many types of pho which I've have never seen before, like satay style pho's. But..... I'm a traditional kind of guy and I like to see a restaurants do the basics well before I want to trust and venture out to try the crazy wild creations. We go spring rolls, shrimp salad rolls, lemongrass chicken banh mi, and I got Pho Tai of course.
The spring roll resembled more like lumpia, (Filipino spring roll), for some reason. No saying it was bad, but it certainly wasn't what I was expecting lol. I was gonna ask for sweet and sour or sweet thai chili sauce cause it reminded me of it so much!!
Salad roll was good. The banh mi.... now that was a bit weird for me. There was cheese in it! The good thing, I only saw it and it wasn't overpowering in flavour. Once again, not that it was bad, but it just added nothing to the sub, but the feeling that I just got a subway sub. It was alright but way over priced! Bread wasn't even fresh.
Pho Tai, the broth was tasty, noodles will be noodles, and the beef... well, the beef was sliced a little thicker than what I'm always used to. It's a hit and miss for me with the me for the beef cause the thickness of the beef took longer to cook so it didn't over cook, however since the meat was slightly thicker the meat was a bit chewy rather than a thin sliced meat.
Overall the food was about 3 stars across the board for me. I was neither impress nor disappointed. I just wouldn't order the subs ever again for that price.
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