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| - Well, well...what can I say? Any restaurant that gives me an upset stomach in a form of a diarrhea (sorry, I know this is too much information but goes directly towards their food quality and preparation standards, so please excuse the vulgarity and read on) deserves a big fat zero but since we can't rate any place a zero on Yelp, I'll have to be generous and give them a 1 star.
Went to Kimpo for the first time this afternoon with the hubby after reading good reviews on Yelp. Unless the management changed since the last posted review, the food was terrible. Like one of the reviewers said below, "it's barely a pho."
We ordered a small pho with rare beef and tripe and a small pho with flank brisket. We also ordered a cold spring roll to share. First of all, I'm not sure what a flank brisket is, is it flank or is it brisket??? Either way, our cold spring roll arrived and it wasn't the standard shrimp, noodles, mint and shredded pork filled variety. It was served with some sort of fish sauce which was barely edible.
Then our pho arrived. I have to admit, the portions were huge! Their small is equivalent to most places' medium. We tried the broth first and right away could taste the MSG. The star anise and cinnamon were also very strong in the broth. Normally, I don't mind the strong spicing but when it comes to pho, I prefer a well balanced broth. Due to the overuse of MSG in the broth, it tasted pungently sweet. I had to squeeze in 3 lime wedges just to be able to eat my pho. Generous portion of noodles seemed to have sat in the bowls too long since they were still stuck to the bottom of the bowls after sitting in the broth for a bit. Perhaps we should have just left them without finishing our meal but we felt guilty for leaving so much food behind so we ate our meal quietly, paid the bill and left.
On the way home, both the hubby's and my stomach were growling so loud and needless to say, we couldn't get home fast enough. Yup, most places I have poor experiences in, I'll usually give a second chance but this is not one of those places. No thank you.
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