10. Chin Nam
Pho 88 (pho Eighty-eight)

Pho 88 (pho Eighty-eight)

232 W Broad St, 22046 Falls Church, United States

Tea • Soup • Asian • Steak


"All I can say about this place is stay away. I don't usually leave negative reviews but I felt I needed to do that for this place. First off, my friend and I got here to grab a quick lunch while waiting to go to the Patient First a couple of doors down. It was a cold day so a warm bowl of pho was in order. We should've seen the signs when we saw only two other tables with customers at noon on a Sunday. There was only one person doing the service and it took her a long time to come to our table. Then another guy came in to do a takeout order. She gave him the menu and then several minutes go by and she still has not gotten our order. Then it irritated us when she then took the other guy's order before ours when we were seated there for ten minutes before that guy even showed up. We should've left then but whatever, people make regrettable choices from time to time. We each ordered cha gio (crispy spring rolls) and two bowls of pho. The server was too busy to get us utensils so we just grabbed ones from the empty table next to us. Back to the food... The cha gio were all wrapper with hardly any filling. And it was so thin like the size of two cigarettes. Just terrible. The pho was not much better. The bean sprouts were most brown and not fresh. The pho itself had very little cilantro and green onions and worse, hardly any meat even though my friend ordered the combination with all the meat. His bowl had less meat than mine and I got the steak and brisket. The flavor of the pho was also subpar. I tried to enhance it with the hoisin sauce but there sauce they had seemed watered down, not thick, so it lacked flavor.We hardly ate it when Patient First called and said they could see us. So we paid our meal and left quickly. Just a nightmare of a meal. I will never go back there and maybe this review can help you to avoid a similar experience."