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All About Pho


My friend treated me to lunch and All About Pho was her choice. It was the first time for both of us, and for me it was also the first time basically since Covid was a big deal that I'd gone out for lunch.

I'm tempted to say the price for portion is terrible, but sadly this is what you can expect nowadays, so it is probably hovering around average. My order of regular sized Vegetarian Pho was definitely not a filling meal except that it had a lot of soup.

41. Grilled shrimp & grilled chicken on vermicelli / Bún tôm gà nướng ($15.50)

  • Slides 1 & 2
  • This was my friend's order and she was very happy with the chicken and the plate overall, enough to want to come back. I'm currently on a no-shellfish low-meat diet because of my gout, so I declined to give it a taste.

62. Vegetarian Phở - served with rice noodle, bean sprout, basil, lemon & pepper, tofu, vegetarian ham, 
baby corn, veggie, carrot ($12.50 Large: $13.50)
  • Slides 3 & 4
  • Where's my baby corn? Fail.
  • Bean sprout, lemon (one wedge), pepper (actually slices of fresh green chili), and basil came on a separate plate for you to add
  • Having had "non-vegetarian" pho, this felt bland and boring, and the soup wasn't especially flavourful either. I ended up added a couple of tablespoons worth of chili paste (available at each table) and some hoisin to try to make the soup more tasty.
  • The vegetarian ham didn't taste like ham per se, closer to a bland luncheon meat. The texture and slight chewiness made it a rather good imitation of meat though.
  • Overall, I can't recommend this bowl. There isn't anything "wrong" about it, but it's just boring and not worth your money. If you are vegetarian, just try something else.

Pretty busy place for a late Saturday afternoon (around 2.30pm) but no problem getting a table. Place seemed clean, staff very reserved and efficient but didn't check on our meal though.

I would give them an average but passing score except they indicated baby corn but I didn't find any in my bowl. That's a fail right away. If you run out of an ingredient, say so up front. If you actually forgot an ingredient, that's also a fail -- especially when you're just throwing ingredients in a bowl and pouring in soup.


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