Taichung is full of restaurants with new and respectable looks, delicious food and high prices, and this refreshing looking Vietnamese pho restaurant is no exception

Phõ Where specializes in pho. There are several different flavors of pho here. In addition to the common raw beef, there are also seafood-based tom yum goong, chicken-based chicken soup base, honey-glazed barbecued pork and pork balls, dolphin flavor, etc.

As our first visit, we all wanted to try the signature raw and cooked beef pho, which comes with two different cuts of beef. The raw meat is sirloin, which turns beautiful pink after soaking and has a soft, tough and delicious taste; the cooked meat is breast and belly meat, which is soft and tender and full of aroma. Overall, both types of meat are delicious and go very well with the slightly sour and sweet soup.

The portion of the rice noodles is moderately soft and hard, with a smooth texture, so it can be considered that the basic skills are well done. In the past, when I saw such a refined and creative store, I would subconsciously think that the food might not be delicious, but the food here is indeed good.

However, the kitchen is right next to the seat, so there will still be some smell all over your body after eating, which is really unavoidable.

I used Fooday to check out any restaurants with good reviews nearby, so I came to this American-style pho restaurant. I'm not sure if the taste is because it's "American" or if it's modified by real Taiwanese tastes. The food tastes relatively bland.

Raw spring rolls are often served with pickled radish or fish sauce as a dipping sauce, but this store has neither. The spring roll itself has no flavor, and you can taste the original flavor of the lettuce. The dipping sauce is made from peanuts, and the peanut flavor is very strong. I think it's pretty good myself.

Tom Yum Kung Rice Noodles is also pretty good, with a lot of seafood and worthy of its price (280). In terms of taste, there is no flavor of seasonings that Taiwanese are not familiar with, so most people should be able to accept it. I personally feel that the taste is a little bit not strong enough. I felt like the signature pho was missing something, but I couldn't tell what was missing. Overall, the taste was too bland and not very recommended.

In short, if you are afraid of fish sauce, which has a more Southeast Asian flavor, this restaurant is highly recommended. It has a taste that is acceptable to both children and the elderly (I actually saw 80- and 90-year-old grandmothers dining there). If the taste itself is strong, this store is not highly recommended.

The soup of the pho is good and the store is very clean. There are green onions and coriander in the rice noodles. If you don’t dare to eat them, you should tell the boss in advance. As there is no reservation available in the store, you can only queue up at the store. The signature beef pho basically contains carpaccio and some beef offal. The pho is a Q-bomb kind. The soup of rice noodles with chicken soup is different. It is more like mushroom and chicken soup. Overall, it tastes more delicious and the food is clean. It’s a restaurant I’ll want to come back to eat at!