Been a while since I yelped, mostly cause I was away from home scoping out the Englewood scene. Now I'm back, and first order of business: Pho Saigon is really awesome. Granted, we've only got a couple vietnamese restaurants in baton rouge, so I'm no authority on the food. What I do know is that most of the restaurants I went to in Englewood and Denver were expensive, compared to Louisiana prices. Pho Saigon was very reasonably priced. Not in the mood for pho, I ordered one of the rice noodle bowls. Normally I would get banh mi, but they didn't sell them here. However, my noodle bowl wasn't disappointing. Well, not really anyway. It was the combo bowl so I swear it said it came with chicken, beef, shrimp, and egg roll. My bowl did not have chicken. Now there is a small chance I misread the menu and it wasn't supposed to have chicken, so I don't take any points off for that. The only other bad thing about this bowl: the shrimp. There were two shapeless red masses in the bowl next to the beef and egg rolls. I picked one up with the chopsticks, inspected it carefully, and after close scrutiny managed to eek out a "what is this, I don't even". My brother, eating less carefully who had ordered the same bowl, had already chowed down on one and proclaimed it the shrimp. Folks, I don't know how they managed to ruin a shrimp like that, but it did not have the shape, texture, or taste of a shrimp. My only guess: They had butterflied the shit out of it, then perhaps attempted to tenderize it with a hammer. I didn't like the sauce on it, though I couldn't place it. That being said, just don't get the shrimp bowl. Get the beef one, or the egg roll one. This bowl was HUGE and the beef and egg roll were delicious. Granted I only got to eat here once, but if I were to go back I would do some exploration with the pho (even the small bowl would fill you up - I saw all 3 sizes while eating and the large looks like about 3 meals), or maybe some of the stir fries and the smoothies. Perhaps the chicken or pork noodle bowls as well. The old man at the counter was very nice as well, telling me the names of a couple of places to get good banh mi, but I never made it out to them during my visit. My only other complaint would be our server - though he was "attentive" and checked on us a few times, he also moved a little too fast. If he asked if you were doing alright and you said "Yes," - with the comma, and started to continue your speech with "but could I get a -" he would have walked off by the time you finished "could". So do not say Yes if he asks this. Be straight and to the point. Regardless, this food was way too delicious for me to give them less than 4 stars. With a tip my meal came to $10 even and I had breakfast the next day as well. One last word of warning - if you get some of your meal to go, be VERY careful when closing the small rectangular styrofoam boxes. They are top heavy, so hold the bottom still while closing the lid or it WILL spill over on you. I wound up wearing a portion of my meal after trying to box it up. Not their fault I guess, but I felt cheated out of some delicious noodles. Anyway, go here. You will thank yourself. read more