Milan N.
Yelp
Every restaurants flavor profile is determined by a chef that runs the kitchen or an owner who runs a kitchen. Two different view of leadership in terms of taste, cooking, and mindset for the consumers. Coming down here to florida, I wanted to taste what the vietnamese quality of food is like down here. We tried a variety of dishes with different textures and the concept is what holds true to what vietnamese cooking is, but some of it was missing flavor profiles. Like our Pho didn't feel like it had all the essential spices that comprises of star anise, cinnamon sticks, cloves, peppercorn, etc for the perfume of the stock. It was underpowered but I know it had been cooked with it. Maybe the profile was lowered so the locals can enjoy it and not be off-put about the taste. The fried rice is a core basic and essential on every menu and its one of those things you expect the taste to be linear or the same. It was definitely cooked on a wok as I can taste it, the veggies was not seasoned, it was more of a toss in, usually frozen veggies are used to keep the crisp and color of the veggies but if its not seasoned, it would taste like a veggie watered down from being frozen. it could've used a smidge more seasoning. The vermecceli noodle bowl with grilled pork was filling and full of noodles and vegetables. The experience was great and Im happy it exist here at its location. Authenticity is subjective nowadays but its also an identity of the ownership inside of the kitchen. The atmosphere of this place is really relaxing and the employees are really nice, please pay them a visit, leave critiques and contribute to their quality!