This restaurant has seen better days it seems. The outside signage and inside walls are adored with press clippings praising this austere venue. Inside, things are a different matter - the dreary lighting gives the restaurant a tired and shambolic look that is exacerbated by un-bussed tables, peeling paint, and un-ironically retro decor. The padding on the ancient dining chairs are caked with decades of grime and gunk that set my skin to crawling.
My dining companion remembered a decent meal roughly five years ago, so we decided to give it a try. It seems that the food has degraded since then, or even worse, they're serving the exact same food that was prepared 5 years ago and have sat around since then.
Goi cuon / summer rolls ($50) - Prepared long in advance as it was refrigerator cold, rubbery, and had about as much life as petrified wood. The anemic looking shrimp took on the texture and flavour of a kitchen sponge in their negligence.
Pho ($50) - Slices of beef as tough as shoe leather lay lurking under the cover of murky, salty and over-reduced broth . I would mention the small portions but I didn't even manage to finish more than a few spoon fulls of soup.
Bun Cha ($90) - Gristly and greasy, served with dried out rice noodles, stale lettuce and a browning sprig of basil.
A restaurant that knowingly serves food of such abysmal quality obviously doesn't give a rip about the customer. Even worse, if a restaurant un-knowingly serves food this bad, it ought to get out of the food business.
雖然係老字號, 但環境尚算乾淨企理, 光猛, 又多位!
有河粉,檬粉同米粉~
一如以往，來光顧的多是旅客，還有一些年長的香港人，大概他們也是習慣了來這店舖吃吧。看見餐牌，一碗普通湯河最便宜也要＄50沒有餐飲，還需要加一服務費，實在有點昂貴。當我們在想吃什麼的時候，店員不停提醒我們落單，實在不太友善，當時有點想離開，但最後我也點了豬肉河粉$50。
大約5分鐘，豬肉河粉上枱，一大碗份量真的很多，蔬菜也新鮮爽口，可惜整碗河粉根本沒有味道，也沒有魚露提供，這一碗根本是白𤆣的，根本沒有烹調過，只是用水煮熟豬肉，用水煮熟河粉，完全沒有味道，這根本不值得＄50，還要付加一服務費，也找不到他們的服務在哪裏，物非所值！
Menu is in English and Chinese. It's cash only and they do charge 10% service charge. They have no set lunches during lunch session which is odd in such a competitive food market. Their menu has a large variety of dishes and some you probably can't find any where else.
An old school Vietnamese place, not very authentic but fairly inexpensive. I'm always unsure if I'll be back but then I go back whenever I realize I haven't been here in a while and they haven't closed. Perhaps in the past, they were really excellent Vietnamese. But now, in a market with more selection, this place isn't that great. But at least it wasn't horrible.
之前記得係報紙睇到香河比業主加租，可能會做唔住，好彩最後都無事，今次係我第一次食。其實越南野我平時都食唔少，仲幾鍾意架，口味間間都有d唔同。
題外話，呢間餐廳好貼心，個筷子套有教人正確用筷子嘅姿勢，好搞笑，我諗係主要針對外國人吧！
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