3550 SW 34th St (next to the Goodwill on South West 34th)
5 thumbs down
Just when you thought that pan-asian cuisine couldn't get worse, Pho Hanoi steps in with a steaming plate of mediocrity. I'd never been here before, so when a friend suggested it for lunch, I figured I'd give it a shot. I do love Vietnamese food and was curious to see a new take on it. First off, we ordered some edamame. They came out shriveled, wilted, and splotchy colored. They looked very sad. They tasted even sadder. It looked like they'd been sitting in the fridge or freezer for way too long and were just discovered in time to serve them up to us.
For the meals, we had the vermicelli pork bowl and the stir fried vegetables and tofu. The vermicelli just looked like white spaghetti and overall, the whole meal wasn't very good (pictured above). The stir fried vegetables and tofu were as equally sad as the edamame and were served with next to no sauce (despite being advertised as having a brown sauce). I kept getting a distinct whiff of kitty litter box from the vegetables and somehow managed to pinpoint its origin to the cabbage/sauce combination. The only thing that made this tolerable was excessive amounts of hoisin and sriracha sauce that I added.
This place was terrible. The food was bad. The ingredients were cheap and old. In fact, it wasn't even that cheap (at 11 bucks each, it was disappointing for my wallet as well as stomach).To be honest, I was worried that it might be really good, as it's so far away from the parts of town I frequent. Fortunately(?) for me, it wasn't anything to be worried about.
Don't eat here.
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