The other weekend I was jonesing for some Vietnamese chow. And the only place i'd ever heard of in my new area was Pho Bac No.1. So shot in the dark, I gave it a try. Well it's done and I ain't never ordering again. There was this pork soup. It was horrible. The pork bits, and I normally LOVE pig meat, looked like little turds floating in a bouillon that tasted like soapy dirty dish water. After 2 spoonfuls I was DONE with that soup. I had the beef and chicken combo, I went for safe stuff, but then these utilitarian restaurants never offer much more than this. The chicken was dry and crunchy. The beef was a really cheap cut and tasted boiled more than it did grilled. The noodles, well I tasted Ramen noodles in my student days that tasted better than this. And the whole dish needed to be sandstormed with salt to give just a little taste. The only thing that tasted like anything was the spring roll which was plural on the menu, I was wondering where the second one was. And it only tasted good once thoroughly dunked in the dipping sauce. And I don't even know if it's an authentic dish from Viet-Nam or not but most Vietnamese restaurants serve Fried Bananas and boy do I love those. I love bananas and then the idea of deep frying them and dipping them in syrup, well that's just awesome but I digress. I ordered the Fried Bananas anyway and that also was a mistake. They tasted pre-fab out of a box and the syrup was made with Maple Syrup. I had no clue that the Vietnamese had maple syrup as part of their culture nor that Viet-Nam was part of North-America and that the Natives cultures taught them how to get the sap from the Maple... in Viet-Nam.
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