Pho 21
About
Vietnamese
Location
Adress: 1018 S Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90006
Business info
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Reviews
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Trái Tim S.
The pho is way too far behind real Vietnammes pho. Low quality of meat, I don't like it at all.
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Farman B.
I live a block away from this horrendous place. My wife and I came and sat at 7:05pm We ordered 3 things from the menu: Chop suey Chow mein, beef fried rice and summer roll. It cost $30. Our order came at 7:55pm. We were famished! You know that there is a saying that if you're really hungry and everything will be good.
Nope! This place defied that saying. It tasted like noodles with with no flavor, the fried rice had like 7 pieces of small beef (doesn't look close to the picture in the menu)and the summer roll tasted like nothing. It was a sad dinner for us. I felt I spent my money eating cardboard paper.
This place should shut down or terminate the current cook. -
Sean B.
In contrast to the heinous reviews of this place, I felt the need to come in strong with a mediocre three-star rating. Honestly, it's a basic strip mall hole-in-the-wall Vietnamese place. It now has an "A" rating from the Board of Health, which is apparently a departure from the past, in a good way.
The waitress couldn't have been friendlier. Yes, she spoke broken English. No, I don't mind. Her English is better than my Vietnamese so gonna just check my privilege and roll with that. I ordered effectively through a little bit of pointing and got exactly what I ordered. Mission accomplished.
The food was... okay. The goi cuon were cold and crisp, if not tightly wrapped nor the most flavorful I've had. The banh mi was decent, the bread maybe not the best and the flavors somewhat mild/muted, but acceptable.
Bottom line, three stars. It's not as bad as you'd think, based on the rating. Perhaps they've turned it around a bit, since those were written? -
Jeff K.
I didn't see the one star rating before I came here, placed my order and checked in.
The young lady who works here was super sweet. I decided to give it a try and hoped I could turn around these one star reviews.
Even though we dined in, when I order a Thai ice tea it was brought out in a cheap plastic boba cup. When I went to stick the straw through the plastic; the cheap straw folded instead of piercing the plastic, causing the cup to break and dump Thai ice tea all over my $130 light grey sweat pants. At any other respectable establishment the drink would at least be comped, if not entire meal.... not here.
English is barely spoken and I'm not sure this business even knows yelp exists. The food wasn't as bad as the reviews say. I found it actually pretty decent. I could see potential with this business under a different form of management, but they have no clue.
As we sat at the table homeless people were allowed to come in and go from table to table begging for money. I personally think the lady working was too nice to kick them out, instead giving change to get the bigger on her way. Which will only encourage her to come back.
The bill came at full price. $30 for two people. To me I felt like I got a 2 star experience for that price. -
Thanh M.
Really good homemade Vietnamese food. The staff was super nice, the food came out fast, and they gave us free egg rolls. There's a 65 year old woman who comes in specifically to make their egg rolls and they're so good!