May agreed to go with me to see “2012”, the doomsday movie. Surprisingly, this did not need a big effort at persuasion. So at lunch time, I went down to the Eng Wah cinemas on the 3rd floor of Suntec City Tower 3, my workplace, to book the tickets. While down there, I did a little a exploration and came across this Vietnamese restaurant – Pho Hoa Noodle Soup. It seems to be a chain with outlets in the USA, Malaysia, Philippines, Canada, China and Indonesia, so declares a decorative wall in the restaurant. I vaguely remember this chain. I think they had an outlet in Siglap, in the eastern part of Singapore, before the ascendant of Thai food and the decline of Vietnamese food in Singapore. Now, I have not had pho (pronounced ‘fur’) for a long time, not since returning in March from visiting Ann and Joan in Perth. I do really like this Vietnamese beef soup noodle. Without hesitation, I ordered a regular bowl with a mixture of flank beef and steak beef, after the waitress explained that the flank has some fat on it and I heard the fat calling me. The pho was really ‘cheng’ (‘clear’ in Chinese). There was no oil floating on the soup, like those I ate in California; neither were there beef flotsam. Nice and pleasant looking. It was served with the usual mint, bean sprout and lime that come with pho. On the whole the pho was good. The flank beef was not powdery and the steak beef was chewy but not tough. I made a mistake though, should have asked for the steak beef to be on the side. Then I would have had it pinkish, more to my taste. The soup clearly had a good stock, with a beefy aftertaste that went down well with the light sourness of the lime. Yum. The pho I had in Perth was better. Was it worth the $12.36 I paid for it after adding a service charge of 10% and7% GST? Nay. A bowl of equally good local beef kuay teow soup in a food court would have cost me only $5 at the most. For those who want their bowl of pho, you can find it at Pho Hoa Noodle Soup (Suntec), 3 Temasek Boulevard #03-027, actually Tower 3 on the 3rd Floor, above Carrefour.
Monday, November 23, 2009
PHO
May agreed to go with me to see “2012”, the doomsday movie. Surprisingly, this did not need a big effort at persuasion. So at lunch time, I went down to the Eng Wah cinemas on the 3rd floor of Suntec City Tower 3, my workplace, to book the tickets. While down there, I did a little a exploration and came across this Vietnamese restaurant – Pho Hoa Noodle Soup. It seems to be a chain with outlets in the USA, Malaysia, Philippines, Canada, China and Indonesia, so declares a decorative wall in the restaurant. I vaguely remember this chain. I think they had an outlet in Siglap, in the eastern part of Singapore, before the ascendant of Thai food and the decline of Vietnamese food in Singapore. Now, I have not had pho (pronounced ‘fur’) for a long time, not since returning in March from visiting Ann and Joan in Perth. I do really like this Vietnamese beef soup noodle. Without hesitation, I ordered a regular bowl with a mixture of flank beef and steak beef, after the waitress explained that the flank has some fat on it and I heard the fat calling me. The pho was really ‘cheng’ (‘clear’ in Chinese). There was no oil floating on the soup, like those I ate in California; neither were there beef flotsam. Nice and pleasant looking. It was served with the usual mint, bean sprout and lime that come with pho. On the whole the pho was good. The flank beef was not powdery and the steak beef was chewy but not tough. I made a mistake though, should have asked for the steak beef to be on the side. Then I would have had it pinkish, more to my taste. The soup clearly had a good stock, with a beefy aftertaste that went down well with the light sourness of the lime. Yum. The pho I had in Perth was better. Was it worth the $12.36 I paid for it after adding a service charge of 10% and7% GST? Nay. A bowl of equally good local beef kuay teow soup in a food court would have cost me only $5 at the most. For those who want their bowl of pho, you can find it at Pho Hoa Noodle Soup (Suntec), 3 Temasek Boulevard #03-027, actually Tower 3 on the 3rd Floor, above Carrefour.
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is that in US dollars? if so, thats the most expensive bowl of pho i've ever seen!
ReplyDeleteThat's Singapore $, about US$9.
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