Fan-Pho-tastic
Pho (Or Phaaaa as a friend once corrected me) is heavenly. And the next darn thing to hangover cures since goodness knows what (Seriously, a restaurant that serves a soup with salty chicken broth with meats, leafy green veggies, carb infused noodles, and coffee strong enough to wake the dead. Yes. Yes, and um, YES). Any restaurant you go into, no matter how dingy or glossy the floors may seem, the soup is cheap and the servings are plentiful (And I mean plentiful, even when I order a small, the bowl’s bigger than my head).
And such is the case with Pho Hoa Binh in Rockville, MD. You can never go wrong with a hot bowl of Pho and I always do a little happy dance when I see my coffee/Ca Phe Sua Nong served with a Phin filter (See above). And I like to see the coffee filter through as it sits on top of the condensed milk before I take the filter off and mix it with the condensed milk.
But what really makes a restaurant on my hit list is not just the Pho, but the main dishes. I went for the broken rice special/Com Tam Thit Nuong Bi Cha and ordered a Pho and coffee bubble tea to go (I do love bubble tea). The broken rice special (Which I devoured before I could get a picture. I was really hungry. Really). It had an egg cake with shredded pork and grilled pork. Although it satiated my hunger (I neglected to have breakfast, having slept in that morning), it wasn’t quite as spectacular as a similar dish I had in a restaurant called Pho Royal. The coffee, however, was particularly nummy, and the coffee bubble tea on the way home was also delicious. And the Pho for dinner was also tasty. So overall, I’d rate the experience a 2.5 on the yum scale. While the Pho, coffee and bubble tea were delicious, I wouldn’t exactly go out of my way to eat here on a regular basis.
Pho Hoa Binh - 2.5/ ❀❀.❀
-S
