[Magdalen] WTPho?

[Marion Thompson]

I believe it's all right to slurp.  :-D

Marion, a pilgrim

On 4/8/2016 6:52 PM, Allan Carr wrote:
> Because of these Pho threads, I decided I had to try Pho. I'm certain there used to be Vietnamese restaurants here, but a search on Yelp for Pho only yielded one in town with not so good reviews. Now, there are a lot of places that call themselves Asian Fusion (news to me).
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> I settled on a place with 4 and a half stars that advertised itself as Vietnamese, Asian Fusion, and Sushi bar. It was in an old Japanese restaurant we used to go to, now quite nicely completely redecorated having an alcohol bar, a sushi bar, booths and tables.
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> We had the pho with chicken, brisket and enormously long, very slippery, noodles. The only way I could figure out to eat them was to twirl them against the soup spoon with a fork and lift the noodles using both to my mouth. Otherwise, the noodles slipped either off the fork or the soup spoon. I still had to slurp some laggard noodles each time. How one does it with chop sticks is beyond me.
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> There was plenty, we took some home. I didn't think the pho had much taste and dumped a small bowl of leaves at the table into it which helped a little. I didn't notice any spices at the table but they might have been there.
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> Camille and I look old, so maybe the server decided to order it bland. Camille finally had enough to eat, but I couldn't resist ordering a seared tuna sashimi and several nigiri sushis.
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> They weren't bad, but not up to the quality from my favorite (actually trained in Japan) Japanese chef.
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> Nevertheless, there's a ton of dishes to try at that restaurant and we'll go again.
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>> On Apr 7, 2016, at 9:53 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> There's a Vietnamese place here called Vietopia.