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| - Seems like Pho An is a new Pho restaurant that was recently opened in Aurora, which is great because we no longer have to drive all the way up to New Market for good Pho.
Environment:
Honestly I was quite surprised when I first walked into the restaurant because the interior is beautiful! The renovation truly reminds me of a fancy, upscale restaurant. It was bright and modern, really clean, and really well decorated.
The restaurant isn't very big, so I suggest coming in a group of 4 or fewer. They could move the tables around to piece them together to accommodate a larger group however. There are comfy sofa seats on both sides of the wall.
Food:
Between the 2 of us, we ordered an side XL House Special Pho and Make Your Own Rice Roll to share. It turned out to be wayyyyy too much food.
The size XL was served in a gigantic bowl and it came with some bean sprouts. They brought us 2 small bowls for us to grab the noodles. The size of the XL bowl is comparable to similar Pho restaurants that I've been to, but I find that they were lacking in amount of meats in the bowl. There were still variety (raw beef, beef ball, beef tendon, beef tripe) but there were a lot of each of them. The flavour of the soup
For the Make Your Own Rice Roll we actually weren't expecting it to be actually DIY, so we were totally surprised when they served us the food. Even though the food tasted awesome (love the extra deep fried spring roll on the side), I didn't quite enjoy the dish because I absolutely sucked at making the rolls. I'm just not good at arts and crafts and since the rice paper gets sticky after it's wet, it was painful to make my food. It would be a fun dish to order if you have kids over though.
Overall, the food was pretty worth it as the bill only came up to around $30 (after tax, tips) and we got to take some home.
Services:
Service was quite slow when I was there for Saturday lunch. It seems like this is a family-run restaurant and at times it feels like they are short staffed. They came to take our orders and brought out our food in a timely manner, but when it came to adding tea and asking for the bill, it was very difficult to get their attention. But yeah, don't expect them to come check up on how you're doing once they finished serving you the food.
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