It's a shame. It's really a shame that the first Yelp review that I felt that I must absolutely, indubitably, without question write to share with the world would be because of how incredibly bad a restaurant's food is.
I was not really bothered by the lack of chopsticks (something fellow reviewer Tomomi points out) at the table right off despite being Asian myself. I was more bothered by the lack of pretty much anything at the tables. It's a vietnamese restaurant! Where are the condiments?? They do serve pho there (which I had the misfortunate of trying... more on that very soon), so I was surprised that there was nothing to add some flavour to them with except for a little salt and pepper! No spicy sauce, none of that sweet black sauce I simply adore (I believe it's called hoisin sauce), nothing. Boy, I found out very soon that maybe it was because they wouldn't have made much of a difference when I got my main course.
The first item I got are spring rolls. They were largely unmemorable for the most part. What stood out to me were the added chicken slices in there, something I've never eaten in spring rolls. Now, I do not claim to know or care about things like what exactly spring rolls should contain to be "authentic" and all that jazz. In fact, I've had spring rolls with pork before at another viet restaurant, and they're one of my favourite items from that restaurant because of how amazingly well put-together they are in terms of flavour. What bugged me about these spring rolls was that the chicken slices were blaaaaaand. Furthermore, there was something in their quality that was off-putting. It's kind of hard to explain; it's like it was lower than let's say, supermarket standards, you know what I mean?
Then came the pho. Oh my goodness I have never squandered money on anything more wasteful than that pho. Instead of the noodles simmering in aromatic beef broth surrounded by delicious, tender cuts of meat, I got a very confusing assortment of random vegetable toppings literally just boiled in water. I thought to myself, "What is all this??" Cauliflower? Broccoli?? Do you want to know the best part? The mystery chicken slices have made their appearance once again. Their bland flavour was even more accentuated by the plain boiled water they were sitting in surrounded the unseasoned everything else. I took a quick glance to my left for anything, anything at all that could act as a saving grace. Nope, just the little salt and pepper shakers.
I was so floored by what was going on that I tried to convince myself that it wasn't so bad. I even insisted to my mother that I would eat it. In the end, I could only bear taking a couple more bites before giving up. I left hungry and ten bucks poorer.
So, in summary (in case you didn't want to read my entire review), do NOT go to this place. Just don't.