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| - Nothing ends an almost-three-week juice cleanse like a few days of good broth-based soup, and what better soup to start with than a nice healthy bowl of delicious pho?
I was craving pretty much everything under the sun for the last two weeks so when it came time to start going back to normal we got this crazy awesome hour long thunderstorm and the first thing that came to mind was "this is perfect pho weather, I'm going to have some for dinner!" That led to looking up local places that had decent reviews, menu and pricing. This place stood out and I suggested to D that we go try it. Some reviews say they have a bit of a wait due to popularity so we weren't altogether surprised that there were 3 parties ahead of us when we got there. The wait really wasn't that bad though, we were seated within 5-10 minutes which worked out well.
The place was packed and smelled really good, the area was pretty clean and the food looked great on the other tables. The woman who took our order seemed to be in a bit of a hurry, we had to keep calling her bit of our order just to get drinks while she was walking away on us. That was the only downside.
The drinks arrived fairly quickly, I had tea and D had a coke. I almost went with a bubbletea but that's too much too soon so I'm waiting until our next visit for that. Our food came not too long after. I received, with the drinks, a nice big plate of fresh beansprouts, lime wedge and basil leaves. The bowl of soup that came was only a medium size, the large is enormous, and I had the #1 - Beef Sate soup (the popular one everyone should try if they like spice). D got the lemongrass chicken bowl with springrolls, salad and vermicelli.
The soup was fantastic - a perfect blend of spice (not just your normal 'oh lets drizzle some chili oil on top and call it sate' type soup that I've found is typical of Calgary Vietnamese places), with tasty big strips of beef, green onion, and noodles that were so easy to work with and very tasty with the hoisin sauce. The noodles picked up the spice of the broth really well so I drank most of the tea no problem. It was heaven in a bowl...so delicious! I even at most of what few beansprouts didn't make it in to my bowl. I couldn't finish the noodles though, too long without food I hadn't had a chance to ask for light on the noodles and they were so tasty I had to cut myself off before I hurt something.
I got to try a bite of D's spring roll and it was delicious - crispy outside, soft well-seasoned filling and I might try that bowl next time...If I don't go for that awesome spicy beef pho again!
Our main server was very attentive, coming by occasionally to make sure everything was good. He was very pleasant and if we actually had needed something I had the feeling we wouldn't be waiting very long for assistance.
We're definitely going back, and I'm hoping to try the salad rolls next time. Best Vietnamese I've had since moving out here, and that would be pretty hard to beat it was so delicious!
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