Bella Vista, Philadelphia -- One of my favorite things to eat is phở and I think the best place to eat it in Philly is PHở HĀ on 6th and Washington. The restaurant is located in a Vietnamese shopping center and the area is usually pretty busy so finding parking can sometimes be an issue. When you enter the joint, it has the look of a cafeteria (a very busy cafeteria). It's not a fancy schmancy place, but who cares? Phở me, it's all about the taste of the Phởởd. When you are seated at a table, the waiters come right away to take your order. We ordered our phở and got our phởởd within minutes. The service is incredibly fast (probably because they have the broth, noodles and meat already prepared so they just mix them together and bring them to you).
Unfortunately, every time I go, I get the same thing so I can't really say much about the other stuff on the menu (steak phở). Except this time, I tried some of Stan's pork chops, which were very tasty, but somewhat dry. Anyway, the phở comes in a huge bowl (small or large but the small is way more than enough for 1 person). For the n00bs out there, phở always comes with fresh basil, chili peppers, lime, bean sprouts and onions. Usually, I just mix a bunch of that into the broth along with hoisin sawce and sriracha hot sawce. The steak is kind of rare when they first give it to you, but it slowly cooks in the very hot broth. It's a lot of phởởd so come hungry! The other great thing about PHở HĀ is that it is very cheap. Most of the phở on the menu is around $6-7 and everything else is under $10. Also, it is cash only.
Overall grade:
A (Louie) - Great phở, large quantity of phởởd, cheap prices, extremely fast service = my kind of place. Phở real - if you're tryna get your grind on with Vietnamese phởởd, go to Phở HĀ!
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