Truc Vietnamese Cuisine

We stopped here to give it a try since we were in the area. My husband had the bun bo hue, I tried the phở dac bet and my boys had the chicken wings. We also had 3 Thai tea and 1 Sprite. Everything was good except for the chicken wings. They were pink inside. The reason why I gave it a 3 star is because it took forever for us to received our drinks. Seems like there was only 1 older lady working. She was no where to be found. Then when we were all done with our food she comes to our table with 2 bubble tea which we didn’t order. Maybe if she would have wrote down the orders she wouldn’t have forgot what we ordered. Or maybe they need more help. Whatever it is, we won’t be coming back again.

Their lemon grass chicken was good but the service was so-​so. Their phở was underwhelming as the meatball pieces were torn into small shreds that I could barely eat it and the beef was sliced into tiny pieces. The broth was ok. Overall, an A-​OK meal.

Pretty legit Vietnamese food in a hole in in the wall joint. I am spoiled by Eden Center in Northern Virginia, but this is somewhat similar to Hung Viet over in our neck of the woods. The liberal use of porky, savory goodness is obvious in #26, definitely not something sanitized for non-​asian palettes. I especially enjoyed the greasy little spring roll I had with my platter and the meatloaf– very flavorful. My SO had the #21 which is quite legit as well, but he complained about the vermicelli being too soft. The price is also right– my massive platter set me back about 10.50 $!

Love the phở here! Everytime I goto Charlotte I stop in for lunch here. Staff is nice. Food is made swiftly and is always delicious. Have never been let down! Eat phở spicy… and sweat it out while eating. thats how its supposed to be! phở even if its 100degrees out! It cures everything! =)

I LOVE Truc’s phở. Their phở is BETTER THAN Phở Real (place for phở eating beginners), Phở Hoa, and Ben Thanh.

Been asking around to try new phở places and someone mentioned Truc and 3 other places & since Truc was closer to us, we decided to check it out.
Arrived there and there was one other group and us & that’s about it. Maybe because it was 1.5 hour till closing, but it was very quiet.
The lady who took our orders spoke broken English, of course, but still very understandable. Ordered #7 phở in large at $ 9.50 and #30 of broken rice place with pork chop at $ 10.50. It didn’t took long till our food arrived. Phở was delicious, but I didn’t like my pork chop very much. It was dry and tasted a lot like fish sauce and reminded me of Chinese sausage for some reason, but I did try to eat as much as I can because it was expensive!
So after eating part of my pork chop, I chow down my husband’s bowl of phở as it was full of beef tendons. I love tendons and they gave us a lot.
Other than that, I don’t think I will come back here other than for phở because we got a huge bowl of phở for $ 9.50. I think it’s huge, lol.

ordered the special/​house chow fun… mediocre in taste and presentation btw. halfway thru the meal, found a piece of hair nestled into the meat/​noodle combo. yuck. informed the waitress, she replied, well, i can take 50% off… since you ate most of it already. uhhh? even if i ate the meal entirely, i wouldnt have paid for it. but in the end, she kindly took off the chow fun portion from our check.

This place is it. Traditional and family owned. Plenty of seating and a decently clean establishment. This is my 2^nd time back, so revisits are expected. An ngon!

As everyone else has mentioned, this place is a hidden gem. Have reservations about the shady shopping center? Put them aside! The food was amazing. I had the meat combo spicy fried rice (yes, i went to a Vietnamese restaurant and ordered fried rice, i wanted to try it) and it was amazingly tasty, addictive even. My wife had beef vermicelli, which she also loved and the small bite she let me have was quite tasty. Need your Asian fix but disappointed with Miyagi’s in NoDa? Ya, me too, try Truc out.

Hidden Gem — excellent service, easy parking, QUALITY, DELICIOUS food 2 minutes away from NoDa. Lang Van has nothing on these guys and I don’t know why everyone keeps going there when this place exists.
I have had pretty much everything on their menu, last night I had the lemongrass beef vermicelli dish which was perfect. The flavors were WONDERFUL, the noodles perfect and my friend had the lemongrass chicken dish with broken rice.
Do not be deceived by the parking lot that looks like giant craters. Walk in and you will be helped. Hope you share this with your friends so that more people experience this lovely place.

Thumbs up! Coming from San Diego and being Vietnamese myself, I am definitely spoiled with excellent Vietnamese food at every corner. And this restaurant was delicious! We ordered the special phở and special rice plate and we have nothing bad to say. Btw, their sate (chili pepper) is extremely hot so be careful not to put too much or you’ll be chowing down water.
The outside décor could definitely use some work though. The building is run down and the outside itself looks very unsafe.
But we’ll be back whenever we’re in town for their delicious food!

Great phở, good prices! Gotta love the Asian Corner Mall. The bubble tea is good too. Will definitely return.

Really great Phở here. The rice noodles combo dish is excellent too. Never had a bad dish here, been coming here for years. The atmosphere is sedate and there is tv musak allways on, often vietnamese variety shows.

I was pretty set on hu tieu nam vang when I was on my way to Truc, but I saw that they had mi quang as a weekly special and since finding good mi quang has been a continuous quest for me during the last 3 years.
It wasn’t bad, and did more of that bumrush all your senses deal that I’ve been craving than some places but still cannot capture the white whaleness of my dreams
Also, are wood ear mushrooms unavailable in Charlotte? I’ve ordered egg rolls 3 times and they never have them.

The traditional «#1» (bizarre how they don’t list phở first on the menu like other places) had the usual everything — rare and well-​cooked beef, chunky tendon, tripe, and a meatball in a beefy delicious broth. The fried spring rolls were good, and the fish sauce was done right. The Vietnamese iced coffee really hit the spot when going to work at crazy eastern times for this Californian. All in all — a good phở meal.
Prices were a bit high for the phở, especially factoring in the suspension work, tires, exhaust, etc. needed after tearing up my lowered rice rocket in the parking lot.

I’m rarely a 1-​dish woman, but at Truc, I am. Tofu with Lemon Grass & Peppers baby! I normally come here with my parents for dinner (may I say serious mooch-​off); it’s like a freaking deja-​vu: Dad always orders Phở (rare beef & tendon), Mom orders Porkchop rice plate, and I order a summer roll starter & tofu. And it’s consistently yummy.
Phở soup base is good, some places I’ve been has some odd herbal taste to it but not here (and don’t forget the fish sauce and what my friends and I refer to as the «cock» (hot) sauce haha). The regular size isn’t huge. Rice plates serve with broken rice or regular white rice. I like their grilled meat but more so the scallion on the rice. Now my tofu… which is a little spicy with tons of onions and peppers. It goes very well with rice. Tofu itself is crispy on the outside and soft inside. My only complaint is not enough tofu.
Mind you this is in the Asian Corner strip mall, so the location may look «questionable» to some. 2 PSAs: avoid taking your low-​riding sport car here… if you have never been to this parking lot, it closely resembles the moon’s surface… in fact I think NASA should train here AND Truc is one of the Dividend Miles Dining program with US Airways, so use your registered credit card to pay and earn miles!

I was a wee bit underwelmed when I visited this little Phở place in the well known «Asian market with the bomb testing ground parking lot» on tryon. The service was friendly and fast but no one really knew what was going on. THe Phở lacked the traditional light spice taste from anise or 5-​spice. I mean this place was fine for a lunch where I was only there to fill my gut at the momment, most likely I will not be back.
We had started off the meal with fresh summer-​rolls. Somewhat fresh but the dipping sauce tasted somewhat from a jar. Almost too sweet, and misleading with crushed peanuts on top. The other thing we ordered was the phở with the soft tendon, tripe, and rare steak, While it was a rather large order of phở it came with a miniscule plate of accopaniments. Barely enough basil for me, let alone my fiancé! like I said the beef broth is very lightly flavored.
As for the service, they were fast, but the attention to detail was lacking. I ordered a boboa smoothie and it wasnt until after I recieved the beverage that I was informed that, «We forgot to brew the Tapioca today.» That is something you tell the patron before you give them a chalky smoothie without glorious tapioca pearls. THEN!!! the fact I wasn’t comped for something that tasted like chalk and coldness with pineapple. Outrage! The saving grace was that The tripe and the soft tendon were perfect.
SOooo… anyother ideas for Phở in Charlotte that doesnt suck?
I know this isn’t Portland but come on!!!

Reiterating what other reviewers said, this parking lot is seriously run down and neglected, but Phở cravings must be answered.
The Phở here reminds me of my first bowl, but not my best. The bun was just ok. The ratio of sauce/​meat to noodles was off, too many noodles making it somewhat clumpy and dry. Pork was bacony, I’m used to a heartier meat, but you can’t go wrong with bacony. The spring rolls and peanut sauce were good and the lemonade was great.
This place was slightly more expensive than what I’m used to in Atlanta. Dunno if this is the best of Charlotte, but it was certainly passable!

Truc might be as authentic as you can get… starting with it’s prime location. It’s located in Asian Corner N. Tryon and Sugar Creek. The location is authentic because the strip mall is just so reminiscent of the asian plazas and strip malls back home in Ca. Nice touch.
Truc is so authentic that some of the menu items really aren’t for the faint at heart. None of it has really been toned down for the American palate. If you’re a regular Andrew Zimmer though, have at it!
If you want to avoid the crowds, do not go during early morning, lunch hours. Most asians traditionally eat phở in the mornings, so weekends here are crowded. Dinner is completely empty. There was only one other customer here at dinner.
Normally I have phở here, but this time I opted for the combination chao ga — rice porridge. The one thing I could have done without was the diced raw ginger. Just way too strong for me and it ruined my meal. Other than that, it wasn’t too bad. Since it was a combination, it came with everything. I mean everything. I don’t want to get into detail for those landlubbers who get seasick; but if you’re a novice, it might make your stomach drop like a roller coaster.
Overall usually very consistent and one of my regular phở restaurants.

Usually, my vegetarianism doesn’t have much of an impact on me enjoying a restaurant (excluding steak houses and BBQ pits that, unwisely, don’t have awesome hushpuppies or cornbread for me to stuff my face with). At Truc, it takes what could be an amazing, authentic experience, squeezes it through an ameri-​chinese tube and onto my plate, which I sit sadly staring at, envious of other, far more interesting dishes and bowls being distributed to other diners.
There are 8 things to order from on this 100-​item plus menu, if you don’t eat the meat. They range from lo mein to chop suey to what I got, lemongrass tofu and hot peppers. I asked for very very spicy, and it got there very very spicy, bird’s eye chili’s abounding, which was rad, and bumped this review from 2 to 3 stars. Maybe I’ve just been spoiled by umpteen million choices at Lang Van and Ben Thanh… but the last thing I wanted when I came to Truc was boring Chinese, no matter how hot it was.
Fresh durian shake and a friend’s cravings for bubble tea will bring me back, but I wish there were more here for me to eat. Ah well.