Straight up the most delicous thing ever.

And I live in Toronto, which means its cooked by an actual Vietnamese person, and is 10x amazing!

mmmmmmmm pho

vlaric

United States412 Posts

June 12 2011 17:48 GMT

#227

On June 06 2011 09:47 sinfinite wrote:
The best pho is from the bay area, CA. I moved down to SoCal from there and none of the places here are even close to the ones up north.

Straight up! I've had pho in socal, Texas, Hawaii, and even in Canada and I can safely say that nothing compares to norcal pho. It's just too good!

tuho133

120 Posts

June 12 2011 17:52 GMT

#228

On June 13 2011 02:48 vlaric wrote:

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Straight up! I've had pho in socal, Texas, Hawaii, and even in Canada and I can safely say that nothing compares to norcal pho. It's just too good!

Just where I live

Snuggles

United States1865 Posts

June 12 2011 17:52 GMT

#229

On June 12 2011 16:30 BrassMonkey wrote:
Straight up the most delicous thing ever.

And I live in Toronto, which means its cooked by an actual Vietnamese person, and is 10x amazing!

mmmmmmmm pho

Not once in my life have I ever eaten a bowl pho not made by a Vietnamese person. I wonder what it would taste lol.

EtohEtoh

Canada669 Posts

June 12 2011 17:59 GMT

#230

Is bourdain being sarcastic? i've read one of his books but never seen him on TV dunno if this is a joke...

maybe it's because i've been eating pho all my life so i don't feel the magic or something

Rinrun

Canada3509 Posts

June 12 2011 18:07 GMT

#231

On June 12 2011 15:08 Karmablah wrote:
The best places in the Vancouver area are like Phnom Penh in chinatown, Thai Son in richmond (golden village), and Red Pagoda on commercial.

That better be a khmer place yo lol.

There is like a "Pho King" or something like that somewhere around here, best place cause you can demand your "PHO-KING" noodles.

StifSokSamurai

United States120 Posts

June 12 2011 18:10 GMT

#232

Every single Pho resturant in Colorado is named "Pho # <number goes here>" every single one. So I go to Pho # 24-98

SoylentCreep

Korea (South)176 Posts

June 12 2011 19:41 GMT

#233

I get my Pho at "Sen" (no kidding) in Karlsruhe. Haven't found a better place yet, haven't been searching though.

Kyyuna

United States1222 Posts

June 12 2011 20:04 GMT

#234

On June 13 2011 03:07 Rinrun wrote:

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That better be a khmer place yo lol.

There is like a "Pho King" or something like that somewhere around here, best place cause you can demand your "PHO-KING" noodles.

One does exist :o

There's a Pho shop near my place and can I say its bomb :D

Being viet and not liking pho is a disgrace i say :o

MetalLobster

Canada532 Posts

June 12 2011 21:06 GMT

#235

On June 12 2011 14:27 Focuspants wrote:

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On June 12 2011 14:21 MetalLobster wrote:

On June 12 2011 13:52 Focuspants wrote:

On June 10 2011 14:40 fire_brand wrote:
I've been to about 15 different pho places in and around the Markham/Scarborough area, and about 4-5 in Mississauga Oakville area (in Canada if you were wondering). It's really difficult to find something that is consistently good. Sometimes the noodles are off, sometimes the noodle to soup ratio is tilted too far one way or the other, and sometimes the meat is just bad. Service I don't really care about, if I don't have to wait long then its fine. It is a Pho place afterall, not a 5 star restaurant.

There's a couple places that have had hits for me. The Pho 88 at Alton Towers McCowan and steeles is usually pretty good. Same thing with the place on Steeles across from pacific mall, but sometimes their noodles or meat aren't the best. My GF is also very picky about how the tripe is, and that is THE MOST inconsistent thing at a pho place. One week she'll say its the best and at the same place the next week it will suck hard.

In Mississauga/Oakville I've actually been pleasantly surprised. I would never guess Oakville to have good Pho but the place, I think its a Pho 88, on Dundas just east of 8th Line is always pretty good and surprisingly good service. The place off Hurontario just north of 403 is also solid, I forget what it is. And then there's Techno Pho (sp?) made the list because it has fed me and my starving art student friends at all hours of the night. A little shady, but 24 hours, and the pho was always delicious. It's at like hurontario and... I wanna say Brittania, but I could be wrong. Maybe Bristol? I really have no idea anymore : X

Edit: Maybe it was Pho Ba Ca..... But I don't think so...

Theres 2 good places in Times Square at Leslie and Hwy 7. The best one is like 3 or 4 storefronts to the east of the lan we go to (PC Power). I would check it out. Also theres a place called Vic Hong at Bayview and Major Mack. Their satay beef brisket soup is amaaaaazing.

I didn't know there was pho at bayview and major mack, I stop by that area all the time >.<

There is a restaurant at Keele and Major mack called Viet Thai which is pretty good.

You know any good pho restaurants in downtown?

Golden Turtle and Pho Hung are supposed to be the best, but I havent personally tried them yet. I live in Thornhill so I usually eat around the hwy 7 area.

Hmm haven't heard of golden turtle or Pho hung. Do you know where they are?

MetalLobster

Canada532 Posts

June 12 2011 21:09 GMT

#236

On June 13 2011 02:52 Snuggles wrote:

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Not once in my life have I ever eaten a bowl pho not made by a Vietnamese person. I wonder what it would taste lol.

Pho not made by a Vietnamese person would use powder booth instead of making it themselves by boiling the meat and bones >.<

There was a restaurant up north in Newmarket that used cheap pre-mix booth and I was disappoint.

DarKFoRcE

Germany1215 Posts

June 13 2011 17:04 GMT

#237

Earlier today i randomly found this thread, read a bit and watched the Youtube video. Then i decided that this stuff seems to be pretty good :D. I just came back from a small vietnamese restaurant where i had my first Pho and it is indeed some of the best food i have ever had!

The past days i've been pretty depressed because of SC2, but now i have good mood!

Pinkie

United States145 Posts

June 19 2011 02:15 GMT

#238

Just had my first Pho experience entirely due to this thread. For the past couple weeks I've been thinking about getting some Pho and finally we went to this Vietnamese restaurant today and I happened upon it on the menu at the last second and ordered it.

Came out pretty good, especially with the Hoison sauce that it was served with. I know that its probably not traditional to eat Pho with Hoison but it really tasted great with the noodles.
Can't honestly say I cared for the beef much though, just cooked in the broth it didn't really have any flavor and was a little tough.
Over all pretty tasty though.

epikAnglory

United States1120 Posts

June 19 2011 02:28 GMT

#239

We have a restaurant here in Southern California called the Pho King. Please do not report me as I am serious, Google it if you want. It charges about $6 for a beef Pho bowl, nothing that special in it.

StreetHeat

United States225 Posts

June 19 2011 03:40 GMT

#240

Best place I have found here in San Diego is "Saigon" on El Cajon blvd east of City Heights. My GF is Vegan so I usually have to have it at "Loving Hut" which actually has a good tasting "Mock Pho"
I don't actually mind the place a little dirty, I think Pho can be, to an extent, TOO clean..