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2012-12-18
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My colleagues and I were heading to Orchard ION to have our lunch when we happened to chance upon this new Vietnamese restaurant on their first day of opening on the 19th Nov 2012. Looking at the crowd in the restaurant and also chancing upon a lunch promotion, we decided to give this new restaurant a try.Here's a photo of the menu of the lunch promotion:At a decent price of $9.90, this lunch promotion consists of a bowl of either pho chicken or pho beef steak slices noodles, fresh southern roll
Here's a photo of the menu of the lunch promotion:
At a decent price of $9.90, this lunch promotion consists of a bowl of either pho chicken or pho beef steak slices noodles, fresh southern rolls with sweet shrimps, egg, and fresh herbs and lastly either a choice of the classic iced coffee with condensed milk or iced lotus tea. Best of all is that the food are prepared without any MSG. Healthy food choice and would definitely appeal to the healthy conscious individual. Also there were no service charges.I ordered the pho beef steak slices noodles and here's the photo:
Surprisingly, the soup broth was clear but tasty. The beef slices were smooth and tender and were simply yummy. However I found that the beef slices were slightly too thin and it will be good if the thickness of the beef slices can be increased or improved.The pho (Kway Teow) was served with the piping hot soup broth and I felt the Pho was cooked just nice to my liking, neither too soft nor too hard. The translucent looking and springy pho went well with the rich soup broth. If you noticed, this bowl of noodle had too much spring onion. I think it doesn't make any difference to the noodle to have so much spring onion and it will be good if the chef can reduce the quantity of spring onion used. Also, a unique factor of this dish is that you can squeeze the small slice of lemon into your noodle to enhance the taste of it.
Next dish is the fresh southern rolls with sweet shrimps, egg, and fresh herbs:
The fresh and sweet shrimps was wrapped with a thin layer of Vietnamese rice paper together with the egg and fresh herbs. I think the accompanying sauce contains a mixture of peanut, chili, garlic and some other ingredients that I was unable to discern but overall, when you dip the southern rolls into the sauce, it tasted fantastic.Classic iced coffee with condensed milk:
To top it off, this lunch promotion comes with a cup of classic iced coffee with condensed milk. It tasted nice and if you are observant, you would have noticed that the cup comes with the traditional word that people used during weddings, the word "Xi". Overall, I think the noodle portion was just alright but the shrimps roll portion was small as there were only 2 rolls given. Also the coffee portion was little too. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 as mediocre and 10 as very yummy, I would give the overall dining experience as a rating of 6. The meal tasted average and the only novelty would be to try out how the Vietnamese food tasted like.
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