I used to live in the Vietnamese area of Houston, so I have had more than my share of noodles from Pho houses. The truth of the matter is its not a very complicated food. Obviously some of the other Vietnamese Dishes are a little more complicated and can be vastly different, and honestly I believe that the vermicelli dishes are only as good as the fish sauce served with it. But for Pho its really on exists in two forms. Good and bad. Pho Saigon is good. It was very tasty, good portions, and very affordable. The decor is not that great, but honestly, its about exactly like the 30 or 40 other Pho houses I have eaten in. If you like Pho, you will enjoy eating here, if you don't like it, then you won't like eating here, that is about as simply as I can put it. The one oddity is that the serve it with lemon slices and not lime wedges, but eh, that's not such a big deal for me. On a truly odd not, they have durian on the menu, and I have only ever seen a handful of places anywhere that serve that. For those of you that know there is a show called Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, and durian is his absolute nemesis. He describes it as the most horrible thing he has tried and similar to eating mushy fetid onions. So if you are one who wants to test the boundaries of odd foods and you want to test your limits then perhaps a durian shake is just the ticket for you.
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