My Hao Cuisine - Vietnamese Restaurant and Cafe — Restaurant in Sydney

Disappointing Vietnamese food. We ordered the pho, crispy chicken, and the combination vermicelli bowl. The pho lacked depth and flavour - it tastes as if there's too much msg and not enough of the pho spices that you'd expect in a traditional pho. The crispy chicken was the worst of all. It tasted really old and as if it had been marinating in fish sauce for 3 days. The meat itself was extremely dry and almost inedible. The skin was crispy, awesome! However... The skin also had a weird flavour to it. The vermicelli bowl was only okay - it came with 1 spring roll, 1 sugar cane prawn stick, and they were quite generous with the lemon grass meat. The noodles were quite broken up, flavour of everything else was mediocre. The meat was strangely all clumped up in big balls (as if they were frozen like that).

Unfortunately... Came home with food poisoning from the place.

Service was bad - rude cashier - he just constantly yelled out things to customers. You have to order at the register, which is fine - however there were no signs for it and the cashier just constantly yelled at us, telling us that we needed to order there. We weren't even ready yet and he just kept...

Unbelievable. This pho place WAS good worth 3.5-4 stars in terms of quality of food and kindness of staff (Not for the cleanliness of the place, inconsistency of the quality of food, or authenticity of the viet food). What happened to me today was a disaster of mistreating a local loyal customer to this place for the last 4 years. I am not sure how the attitude to treat customers has worsened ever since this place was only filled with 1 or 2 tables of customers on a beautiful Saturday lunch when we first visited the place. I was proud to bring some friends who visit this area for lunch but now it is the past memories. Please treat all your customers in fair manner. Value your local customers who regularly dine regardless of their ethnicity. Do not ignore the customer who is standing to pay at the counter. Say hello to all your customers if you would do it by selecting who you want to. I totally felt I was not welcomed to the place. Not to mention more than this but this will be my last time to...

Have bought here twice & not been satisfied on either occasion. First occasion was back when they originally opened several years ago - a chicken roll that was truly unpalatable. I threw it in the big before I got back to the car.

Second time the food was tasty, however it doesn't offer value for money. For $18 I received a deeper rectangular takeaway container than normal - more than 3/4's filled with vermicelli noodles. There was a bit of pork the size of a child's palm, a SINGLE mini spring roll with a few bits of cucumber, lettuce & grated carrot.The fresh vege were even very light on. The dressing was fresh & a good quantity - something was needed to make the vermicelli noodles palatable, given they formed the lions share of the dish. Despite enjoyable flavour I won't buy again due to incredibly mean amounts re: quantity of main elements of dish. Definitely a rort. I estimate I received less than $5 worth of ingredients. Making a profit is one thing. However this was...