![]() The beauty of it is that it's healthy, delicious and inexpensive. No one wants to pay big money for Vietnamese food. While I have you here, do you know someplace besides Favori that does a great baked whole catfish? Their CAfe Su Da is exceptionally flavorful. I have been to this place and liked it a lot. Eric, D'oh! I would've made more people confused there. But then, as long as they're not spitting or blowing their nose into the food, I'll excuse a lot, so long as it's good. Windo, I rushed over there to read the article, and most of the restaurants I've been to are in the "cleanest" list. good thing i've never been to any of those places on their hit list.Įlmo, is the address 14201 or 14021? Yelp seems to contradict what you have here: Otherwise I'm looking forward to trying this place for lunch sometime this week. did you see the register headline story today? crazy. Pho is sooooo good on cold rainy days like today. Now if only Saigon Grille served it all along. Though the broth lacks the lip-smacking presence of pork fat requisite in the best versions of the dish, it's almost a carbon copy of Pho Hung Vuong's bowl of the same name. Torn leaves of iceberg lettuce, a few sprinkles of fried onion, some cilantro, and scallions give it color and crunch. Some float, some sink all are welcome, especially the quail eggs. Then on comes toppings of steamed shrimp, fish balls, slices of pork, curly cuts of squid and two boiled quail eggs. In a bowl and over two types of noodle (crinkly egg and jelly-clear glass), a hot pork/chicken broth is poured. However, for those who suffer from pho fatigue (or as I like to call it, pho-tigue), there's the hu tieu mi dac biet which retails at about $7. $6.95 now gets you a bowl of pho, a crispy egg roll made from rice-paper, and a soft drink.Īs for their titular noodle soup, it's sweeter and richer but otherwise identical and indistinguishable from those served on Bolsa St. And they're still adjusting them to appease the stingy nature of pho-eaters - the lunch specials were marked down by a buck in the last month. Now just the basics are offered at prices slightly higher than Little Saigon rates, but dramatically lower than its predecessor. Wisely, Pho Ha Noi got the message: No one wants to pay more than $10 on Vietnamese food, even in Irvine. It was optimistically ambitious cuisine for a neighborhood that just wanted pho. Previously, Saigon Grille featured big ticket items like the $16 mien xao cua (stir fried vermicelli noodles with crab meat) and baked catfish. This stemmed the confusion at least for this diner, but others who walk in never having been to Saigon Grille wouldn't have known the difference anyway - they kept the opulent interior exactly the same. They did finally send somebody to Michaels to buy white stencil to put up the new name on the windows. The latest to get passed is Saigon Grille, which enters the open court as Pho Ha Noi, managed by the same people who brought you Pho Hung Vuong in Tustin.īut for a few months after the purchase, no one bothered to take down the Saigon Grille sign, leaving many Irvinites who received coupons in the mail for Pho Ha Noi wandering the streets baffled and soupless. ![]() But the rest changes hands more often than a basketball. ![]() The stalwarts are the two Pho Bac Ky's and the Pho 99 on Jeffrey. At my last count, there are exactly five eateries that serve this foul-weather food. Not so in Irvine, where Vietnamese restaurants are as rare as the slices of steak in the soup they serve. Throw a stick anywhere in Westminster and it'll hit a pho joint. ![]()
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