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4220 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, California
(213)487-5002

TravelQueen2001
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Pho OK

  • March 23, 2001
  • Rated 4 of 5 by TravelQueen2001 from Los Angeles, California
This Pho (pronounced "Fa") restaurant is not just OK as its name may lead you to believe -- this place is absolutely GREAT! Hidden in a little commercial strip on the edges of Koreatown, this small unpretentious (hole in the wall, yes) restaurant serves great PHO, and excellent Thai iced tead and Vietnamese iced coffee (BEWARE! Either of those concoctions will keep you up for hours!). In case you're new to PHO: huge bowls of Vietamese noodle soups with lots of stuff added depending on what flavor you get -- among the choices: seafood, brisket, and other beef choices (stomach, instestines, and so on -- you don't have to get the intestines or the stomach, so don't get freaked out). The broth (beef broth even with the seafood) is absolutely delicious. When the steaming bowls of pho come, you will also get a tray of fresh basil, quarters of lime, and soy sprouts to add to the soup (request chopped cilantro and add that as well) -- you break the branches of basil into pieces, add it together with the sprouts, squeeze some lime juice, and pour some hot sauce from the generous-sized bottles on the table, and stir with your chopsticks. What a treat! Also incredibly cheap (about five bucks or so for the PHO)! My favorite is the seafood pho, and I get an iced coffee too. The place is run by a really friendly Korean chiropractor (I can't remember his name right now) -- he has lived in Vietnam, so he knows about pho. Oh! I forgot to tell you that this is Korean-style pho (it's in Koreatown after all), which means the meat is a little less fatty and the broth a bit more mellow than in the Vietnamese pho places. I've been going to this restaurant since it opened, about two years ago, and plan to keep going! When people come to visit me from out of town, I always take them here with the warning "It's not fancy -- but it's SOOO good!"

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