At first, I was really skeptical of a place serving BOTH Chinese food AND Vietnamese food and located in the far southwest part of town. My boyfriend kindly reminded me that I am a product of a family of two cultures (Chinese and Vietnamese), too, and bomb pho definitely exists at home... ok ok, back to the review of the FOOD.
In we went, and this review is only based off of the few Vietnamese items that we tried.
1. Pho Tai - Slices of beef noodle soup. Not too bad but could also be better. Broth had a nice beefy flavor base. The plate of greens on the side looked fresh but amount was not impressive. I can understand that because being on this side of town, you wouldn't expect the crowd to want a load of greens anyway.
2. Com Thit Nuong - Charbroiled thinly sliced marinated pork and rice. Visually, the pork was nicely charred but upon chewing it, I realized it was wayyy dry. A healthy dunk of the nouc cham/fish sauce on the side fixed that.
3. Cafe Sua Da - Vietnamese iced coffee. This tasted quite strange to me. It had the flavor essence of some sort of coffee liqueur. Very weird.
Conclusion: I think that if you are stuck on the southwest side of town with no time to make it to Chinatown area for better Vietnamese pho, Grand China can get you by.
I think I need to go back another time to see how the Ameri-nese Cuisine (Americanized Chinese Food) is. Will report back once that happens
p.s. Our server was very nice and efficient during our Monday lunch time adventure. Poor girl had to work the front, back, take orders and bus the tables, so I'd definitely cut her some slack. However, her fellow co-worker (a.k.a homeboy with the asian popstar hair and get up) needed to step up a little more help the chick out.