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Tasty Noodle Soup at Pho Anh Vu

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Pho Anh Vu
Location: 1482 Dundas Street East, Mississauga
Website: https://phoanhvu.com/

I’ll admit that I did not have particularly high hopes for Pho Anh Vu.  A chain Vietnamese restaurant in a Walmart plaza?  Surely that will be okay at best.

Pho Anh Vu

And indeed, the chain Hakka joint a couple of stores over is just as mediocre as you’d think.  This place, however?  Surprisingly good.  Way, way better than you’d expect.

Pho Anh Vu

In particular, I’d heard good things about the bun bo hue here, so that’s what I got.  I actually got the deluxe version of the dish, bun bo hue dac biet, which they only serve on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: “Hue Style Beef Special, Crab Cake, Homemade Sausage, Rare Beef with Vermicelli Soup, Beef Shank, Ham Hock.”

Pho Anh Vu

It’s a tasty bowl of noodle soup and a solid version of this dish, with a vibrant, flavourful broth that has a nice spicy kick.

It’s also crammed with tasty stuff (though I think they left out the crab cake in mine, sadly), with the very tender beef and the flavour-packed sausage being the highlights.  It’s quite good.

Pho Ngoc Yen Continues to be Great

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Pho Ngoc Yen II
Location: 1596 The Queensway, Etobicoke
Website: https://sites.google.com/orderup.ai/ngocyenrestaurant/home

I went to the original location of Pho Ngoc Yen a few years ago and called it a hidden gem.  It’s in an industrial area of Mississauga, and you really have to be looking for it to find it.  You’re not going to stumble onto it.

Pho Ngoc Yen II

Their second location, on a busy stretch of the Queensway in Etobicoke, is very much the opposite.  But it’s still a gem.

I ordered the pho last time, which was extremely delicious, so I figured another noodle soup was a safe bet.  I went with the bun bo hue: “beef, pork with vermicelli in spicy lemongrass soup.”

Pho Ngoc Yen II

It’s a great noodle soup.  Though it’s not particularly spicy, the broth is zippy and flavour-packed, with a meaty and slightly seafoody flavour that’s really satisfying.

It’s hard to tell from the photos, but it’s absolutely crammed with meat.  There’s a whole bunch of tender sliced beef, a couple of fairly substantial pieces of tasty pork sausage, and some blood cakes.

Pho Ngoc Yen II

The dish cost about 20 bucks, which certainly isn’t cheap, but considering the quantity and quality of stuff in this bowl, it’s hard to say it’s not worth it.