Ray I.
Yelp
I really didn't want to talk down on POC restaurants esp during difficult times post-pandemic, but the experience was bad enough to warrant this review.
We went in on a weekday night about 1.25 hours before closing, so you may avoid this issue if you come at a different time.
1. We weren't told that the majority of the menu wasn't available until after the server came by to take our orders.
Apparently, the kitchen was doing their fryer oil change, so only soup dishes were available. By that time, we were already seated for 15 minutes and only had picked out non-soup dishes lol.
Also, I feel like doing a fryer oil change, limiting the menu, during normal business hours is unacceptable. My family ran a restaurant for over 20 years and we never did a fryer oil change during operating hours. They stayed stayed later after closing as to not affect the customers' experience. Not sure if that's the norm nowadays, but I've never seen another restaurant do an oil change during business hours.
2. My sister got the pho which came with broken/short noodles. My Vietnamese friend later informed me that pho noodles being short is not normal (nor acceptable), and it could mean that the noodles were old or not stored properly.
3. More bizarre service, in which they were very eager to shoo us out of the restaurant near the end of our meal. They were banging items while "cleaning" near us and watching us like a hawk from afar. The two servers lunged at our table when we stood up... about 15 minutes before closing.
I get it, we were "those people" who came in kinda close to closing... but if they didn't want to serve us, they should have just told us the kitchen was closed due to the oil change to begin with.
All in all- my noodle soup was alright, but nothing to write home about. I was very thirsty afterwards, so there was probably a lot of msg in there. It might be worth coming at a more "regular hour" to try their non-soup dishes, but I don't think I'll be coming back...TBH we should have just left after experiencing mishap #1, but there didn't seem to be any decent open restaurants nearby. Lesson learned.