Location: 4450 Highway 7 E, Markham (just west of Main St Unionville)
Website: N/A
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Meal: lunch
My thoughts:
For once, I didn't have to work on a Sunday, which is a rarity for me. I'm known in my circle of friends to be a workaholic and work 7 days a week. I've 'cut back' on my schedule a bit in recent years and don't work on holidays anymore.
Anyway, it was my dad's birthday today so I did kind of deliberately take the day off. We came here as a family after my parents and I did a bit of shopping, which worked up a bit of an appetite in all of us! We ordered the following:
Spring rolls ($5.50) - as you can see, not much there for the presentation but the spring rolls themselves were pretty good.
House special pho ($7.95 for a large) - the colour of the soup was intriguing and full of seafood, but this was not my favourite of today.
Curry beef brisket ($6.50 for a small) - this was hand's down my favourite thing we ordered today, but it was very oily. I am not normally a fan of pho, but I thought that the thicker sauce of the curry better coated each mouthful of noodles, which gave it flavour.
Beef satay pho ($6.50 for a small) - I didn't really like this. The meat and tendons were tough, and the soup was salty and oily.
Hai nam chicken rice ($7.50) - a coconut and ginger-infused rice with chicken. Both the chicken and the rice were very oily and neither had much flavour. Fail.
The restaurant was very quiet when we arrived til around 1:30pm, at which point it got busy all of a sudden. It was obviously this is a mom-and-pop shop. The service was mediocre and the place not very clean. Probably the only thing possibly worth coming back for was the curry pho. But given the fierce competition of restaurants in the GTA, I won't be back.
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