text: I am Asiantotally grew up with pho as a staple in the housesoI know my pho nnALL Asians on Yelp say thatbut BELIEVE US It is completely relevant and comparable to having an expert in PHOlogy giving you an expert opinion nnWith that being saidnI was pretty excited this morning when all of the family agreed to have pho todaybut so disappointed that I wish we had just gone with the latter and went to a buffet insteadnnSo here is how this Phoday wentnnam Arrive at Pho Saigon nHomeless looking man sitting just inside the restaurant door opens the door for usweirdbut ok nnWe are seated immediatelygoodnRestaurant decormehnRestaurant sizekind of smallnRestaurant seatingelbow to elbownRestaurant ambienceblandjust like the soup nWe scanned the menu and hubs notices a taped piece of paper in the menu that says Consuming raw meat may because illness or something along those linesI see their reasoning for putting that I the menubut that is hella hella discouraging and bothersome nnThis female server probably in her midlate s was the rudest BuacH everidk if she knew how to speak English or she was just having a bad FuauacKing daybut REALLY If you do not like your job go work in some other industry This is customer service slap your smile on and sell the damn restaurant nnShe took our order for foodshe seemed to speak decent English so I am not going to blame anything on thatbut when my daughter her friend and I have to say The number a dozen effing times and you still do not effing understand that it is NOT a and THEN get a funky attitude about it after I held my fingers up so YOUUUU can understand You better be glad my ghetto did not come out for real On top of that she NEVER asked if we wanted to order any drinksmy husband had to yell at her from across the restaurant as she scurried away to do idk what nnAll of that threw me off so bad I kept saying under my breath I do not want to be here I want to leaveI do not trust the food that is going to come out after all that But hubs wanted to just eat and run because football was on So we stayedughnnOur food came out at a decent timeno need to wait My daughters friend ordered just the vegetarian spring rolls for herself she was still hungry after finishing that and asked to order the Vegetarian PhonnCLEARLY labeledVEGETARIAN on the menu but the second server that waited on us who was much more pleasant stated that they use chicken for their vegetarian pho broth CHICKEN BROTHin their VEGETARIAN pho That completely defeats the purpose of vegetarian dummieskeep away non meateaters keep awaynnFinallymy own foodso so so disappointed that even my PHOto was sadthe large bowl here is more like a small bowl at any other pho restaurant in townmaybe even smaller Their satay is red chili pastenot true Satay at all They use purple onions in their phokind of gross to me because it gives the broth a flowery sweeter kind of flavori like red onions but I feel pho has absolutely no place for them I had no fish sauce or salt in the immediate area to fix the brothand trying to fix something that should be so simple to make in the kitchen bothers me badnnIm going to stick to my own home cooked pho or if I am lazy go to Pho Kinh Do for now This place was such a huge disappointment nnI just read in one of the tips on yelp that they have a C grade Wtf I wish I wish I wish I would have seen it for myself otherwise this review would have never happened nn STAR for making the st server go away and letting the second server tend to usShe and the fact that Yelp does not allow me to give negative Stars are the reason why you got star from mennBtwwe ran into that same homeless man again an hour later only this time he was standing in the entryway of SF Supermarket just down the street and later being pursued by an angry cell phone wielding Asian manmakes me wonder what he was doing at the restaurant if he was not a patronnnnI miss Pho Ca Dao in San Diego