Pho Thai Hoa Review

Someone picked this restaurant so decided to try. It was ok big in there but not a lot of people. There were a few tables of people. Service was ok. When they gave us our water, I see this brown colour in it. It wasn't completely brown, it was like a fading brown. I know it's tea but never really seen that before. I believe they put ice in and pour tea over it. Someone thought it was just tea stain, um, no haha! It's just cold tea, better than tap water.

We ordered the pork pattie rolls ($7), #26 pho ($10.50) and the lemongrass chicken combo ($12).

My pho was normal pho, enough flavour. They used thin flat noodle which was nice, noodle didn't break easily. Some of the beef were very hard to chew, maybe in hot soup for too long? The tendon was hard to chew and no taste at all. The fatty beef was good and soft. The tripes were "crunchy", soft crunchy, not crispy crunchy. The size is actually ok for the price. A lot of noodle, which was good because normally pho places don't really give a lot of beef.

The lemongrass chicken was well flavoured but we thought it was a bit over cooked. The combo was ok big and it came with a soup. I don't know how to describe the soup taste, it was different from the pho soup. Someone thinks it's chicken soup but they put a pork meat in it. Maybe it's both chicken and pork?

The pork pattie rolls were quite good compared to the ones we tried at T&T. It's like a normal salad roll. I like how they used soured veggie in there, would be nice if they made the lettuce sour too. They also added this spring roll wrapper in it so it was crispy. The pork pattie itself doesn't have much taste. I thought it would taste like Chinese sausage or something. The wrapper was harder to chew once it gets cold.

Overall, not bad, I would come again but there are tons of pho places we haven't tried.