Every week my mom likes to go somewhere different to eat and this week, she wanted to eat pho, so I immediately took the opportunity to invite my beau along and he suggested this place.
Location: 3.5/5
It is deep within the south side of SkyCity on Midland a tad north of Finch. If you did not know it was all the way at the back end of the plaza, then you would easily get lost finding this place.
Decor/Ambience: 4/5
High ceiling with polished wooden tables and chairs with cushioned seats on the sides. 22 wooden colour lamp shades hanging above. The place is not small nor big. Not too quiet or loud either.
Food quality: 3.5/5
My mom wanted me to eat seafood and not simply vegetables and I wanted soup and not rice or something dry, so my mom helped me pick their seafood noodle soup, which sounded like a good idea.
My mom, herself, had a rice vermicelli with chicken, cabbage, sliced cucumbers and radish and 4 spring rolls. My mom was very full from her meal, but hers cost a full $2 more. I think next time I might get the same thing as her but with seafood and sugar cane instead.
The spring rolls that came with my Mom's vermicelli were crispy and tasty in comparison to my seafood noodle soup, which was a tad bland for my liking.
The soup was clear and refreshingly light, but had it been a fish broth that would have been more enjoyable.
Service: 3/5
Average Asian service. Bare bone, but fast.
Value: 3.5/5
They gave plenty of bean sprouts, but they cheap out on seafood for my noodle soup. My $10 small size had plenty of noodle and soup to make me feel adequate, but they only had one mussel, one shrimp, one squid, one fish tofu, two fish balls cut up in quarters to make it seem like there is more food then there really is. My Mom's order was a better choice, because her portions of chicken was nearly half the bowl. As you can tell from my photo as well, the bowl was not full to the brim either as some other places might be.
The P4 rare and well done beef noodle soup that my beau had was the cheapest of our meals, but his had plenty of slices of beef in his. I just felt that the place was a bit stingy with the amount of seafood that they gave me.
I would still come back and recommend this place to friends and family members, because they have many choices to choose from. This rating is mainly for their seafood noodle soup or P24 on their menu. Next time I will just do what she did and order a vermicelli and just ask for a bowl of soup from whoever I am eating with. Unlike me, most people, I know, do not always finish their entire soup anyway, so this would prevent my throat from feeling too dry. My mom is clever one as she is generous. read more