Pho Vietnam

Serves one of my favourite fried rice, reminds me of fried rice you find in Sri Lanka! (recommend the Duck and Fried Rice) Definitely recommend this place for cheap but good dishes. I always take menu 410 «Ban Cha Gio mit Rind» (CHF 16.90) and really liked it. Has outdoor seating too and you don’t need to wait long for the food either.

Great selection of Vietnamese classics. A bit on the expensive side of things for a self service type restaurant. My personal favorite is the large «mixed Bun Chia Gio»! And if you’re hungry for desert try a «Three Color».

Vielleicht war es die Enttäuschung, dass die Banh Mi aus waren. Ich glaube aber, dass CM Aleks und ich dasselbe Erlebnis hatten: Die Phở Bo war ok, die Kräuter und Sojasprossen haben aber definitiv schon bessere Zeiten gesehen. Motiviert mich nicht, das Banh Mi noch nachzuholen. Bleibt Zürich ausser am Street Food Festival eine Banh Mi Wüste. So tue doch jemand was dagegen!

Also das letzte Mal hier hatte ich sehr gut in Erinnerung. Gestern einige Unilocal-​CM-​Monate und viele Gaumenfreude-​Erfahrungen später, ging ich wieder hin und bin leider nicht mehr so begeistert.
Habe jetzt eine andere 5-​Shrimps-​Suppe probiert (Nr. 528 — bin immer froh, haben die Gerichte in asiatischen Restaurants Nummern! :D) und die war sehr salzig und hat irgendwie ziemlich säuerlich geschmeckt.
Dabei wäre es eigentlich noch lecker mit den frischen Sojasprossen und Koriander. Doch leider irgendwie nicht mehr so frisch. Meine Freundin hatte eine «Wok-​Reispfanne — sah nicht sonderlich liebevoll zubereitet aus. Was natürlich auch daran liegen mag, dass sich kurz vor Mitternacht unsere hungrigen Magen meldeten.
Das Lokal hat nämlich sehr lange offen, was dann wieder ein Pluspunkt ist. Bei den Suppen muss man wohl etwas Glück haben. Also ganz okay, doch wenn man eine andere Wahl hat, dann ja, ergreift man lieber diese. :)

Sehr gutes Essen, wirklich preiswert. Lustiges Lokal, vor allem zum draussen sitzen bei warmem Wetter. Bedienung ein wenig chaotisch aber immer freundlich :)

***23.09.14 five months in and the ‘warm and fuzzy’ reception we received back in April has now become ‘abrupt and hurried’. The joint is busier and with that the staff seem a bit disaffected, strangely. –food still tastes nice.
Phở Vietnam is newly opened and ready to WOW folks with their fresh and tasty phở, among other things. Having eaten phở in various cities around the globe over the past 20 years, I can say with some authority that this version is lovely but not what one might necessarily expect if one has had the pleasure of eating phở in the SF Bay Area or LDN or Ho Chi Minh City, for that matter.
The lovely young man who took our order told me that the Swiss ‘won’t eat tripe and cartilage’, so P.V. doesn’t offer a phở containing those tasty bits of cow. The brisket, however, was fairly plentiful. Interestingly, there, too, seemed to be an awful lot of black pepper in our soup. So much so that after consuming all of the broth, my husband’s empty bowl was scored with many, many black marks. We both experienced a bit of ‘pepper burn’ after eating our meal as well. In addition to black pepper, the soup was well-​flavored with green onion, white onion, and other finely chopped greens (I think I detected a bit of curry leaf) and, as it should be, tasted so very fresh. The usual side dish of lemon, bean sprouts, Asian basil and what appeared to be mustard green (no chilies and no cilantro) came out with the soup. There was, unfortunately, no Hoisin sauce on our sidewalk table, so I naively assumed that P.V. hadn’t any. We spotted the sauce on our way in to pay. Oopsie. All you phở folk: don’t forget to ask for it!
Trotting out my paltry Vietnamese, I ordered an iced coffee from a very obliging and friendly woman at the counter. I hadn’t actually seen cà phê sua đá (iced coffee with condensed milk) on the menu, but the non-​iced variety is listed. Coffee lovers would do well to try this beverage. It’s sweet and has a richly-​flavored coffee taste.
Although phở is considered ‘street food’ in Vietnam, it isn’t here, so expect to pay 15.90 for a decent-​sized bowl that won’t leave you feeling stuffed, but rather satisfied.