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2010-07-31
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I have read that Pho Le Hong Kong is related to the famous Pho Le in Vietnam, so I was really looking forward to giving here a try: **********************PHO BO (Rice Noodles with Rare Beef) -Along with the noodles comes a basket of 九層塔 (Thai Basil) and Bean Sprouts, a wedge of Lime, and chopped Birds Eye Chili. No signs of 鵝蒂 or 毛翁 on this day. The French-Vietnamese inspired Pho arrived not long after, its a dish with a formula which bears some resemblance to French Onion Soup, although others
so I was really looking forward to giving here a try:
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PHO BO (Rice Noodles with Rare Beef) -
Along with the noodles comes a basket of 九層塔 (Thai Basil) and Bean Sprouts, a wedge of Lime, and chopped Birds Eye Chili. No signs of 鵝蒂 or 毛翁 on this day. The French-Vietnamese inspired Pho arrived not long after, its a dish with a formula which bears some resemblance to French Onion Soup, although others think its associated with Pot Au Feu, but I don't think so! :
- Soup was lukewarm at best.
- The onions were hacked into big chunks rather than sliced thinly. This means in the middle of eating your soft noodles, you often end up biting into thick, crunchy and very raw onion pieces. A good Pho shop should always horizontally slice up the onions paper thin.
- The Soup was fairly weak, murky and artificially sweet, the latter not really from onion. Its slightly oily but otherwise one dimensionally sweet with a faint beef bone marrow and fat flavour hiding in the background. Too diluted. Even adding in that single 九層塔 herb I was given could not rescue the blandness, unless if you believe spring onion plays a major role in the pho broth, which it shouldn't! A truly good Pho's broth, should have a small hint of spice just to tickle your palate, a strong roasty beef bone and marrow/fat depthness, then enhanced by a handful of fresh green herbs as mentioned above, and hopefully appears as a transparent clear broth carrying all the essences of the above combined. Unfortunately - this failed in every single aspect.
- Rice noodles seem slightly overcooked, some of them clumped together. They are also the less-transparent, very Cantonese whitish type.
- Beef slices were actually quite tasty but there were what - 4 narrow slices at most? Much like they skimped back majorly on the essential ingredients used to cook the weak underlying broth, its seems like they also think its cool to cheat the customer by giving them less beef than any other shop out there but still charge a highish price.
LIME SODA -
Just like the Pho above, this lacked real lime taste. Its more like a plain soda.
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- SERVICE IS VERY GOOD HERE.
- THE PHO AND ITS BROTH ARE PROBABLY NOT WORTH A CRYING FACE ON ITS OWN, AS IT IS ACTUALLY EDIBLE.....
- YET, CONSIDERING THE WAY THEY TRADE UNDER AND MARKERTIZE THEMSELVES AS SHARING LINAGE WITH THE ORIGINAL FAMOUS 'PHO LE (錦麗)', SURELY, THIS SHOULD HAVE PERFORMED MUCH BETTER. TOGETHER WITH THAT MERELY WARM SOUP AND THE MISERLY PORTIONING OF BEEF MEAT GIVEN..... THESE 3 THINGS IN THE END PROMPTED ME TO AWARD THEM A CRYING FACE. GOD BLESS YOU.
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