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| - This was our first visit to Pho Do Thi. Our son has been getting take-out from them for a couple of years and loves that they're open until 4am.
The restaurant was pretty quiet for 1pm on a Saturday, which was nice for us as we often have to wait for a table when we go out for Vietnamese lunch. From what I understand, they're much busier later in the day.
The dining room is fairly large, bright and airy. Both the dining room and bathrooms seemed very clean.
My husband ordered the My Tho Style noodle soup with glass noodles, shrimp, squid and imitation crab. It also came with a shrimp cracker on the side. The soup was tasty with a fair portion of protein and plenty of noodles. The cracker was crispy and tasted like the oil used to cook it was fresh.
Our son had the bbq pork fried rice. It had plenty of fair sized pieces of bbq pork and quite a few veggies. He thought it tasted good but there were parts of it that were a bit salty.
Our son also had the fresh lime juice with soda. He has had this at at least 10 different Vietnamese restaurants in the area and he says this is one of the best he's had.
I had the vermicelli with shrimp on a sugarcane, grilled meatballs and spring roll. The shrimp was quite dried out and overcooked and was also a small portion (as compared to other Viet. restaurants in the area). The grilled meatballs were actually 5 very thin slices of sausage which were also overcooked and a bit dry. The spring roll was quite good, nice and crisp and with lots of taro. One thing I really did like was that the nuoc cham sauce is on the table along with small bowl, so you can take as much as you like. I like to soak my vermicelli with it and often find there isn't enough, so this was a big bonus.
All in all, we enjoyed the food and will probably return. I wouldn't order the same vermicelli dish as it was subpar as compared to most Viet. restaurants in the area, but I would try the pho for sure and perhaps a rice dish.
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