Phở Đức — Restaurant in Hamburg

The restaurant was opened up out on the street, cause summer! It was nice and airy and the friendly staff left us with a menu with most main dishes costing below 10 euros.

You can pick between wanting a soup or a noodle salad and what kind of meat you want, but you are better off telling the staff the flavour profile you are looking for (spicy, sour, simple etc).

Ordered a Pho Bo (beef and flat noodle soup) , simple light on flavours and a lot of noodle. A bit pricey considering the simplicity, but the complimentary sauces help with that. The Bun Thit Nuong (grilled pork with vermicelli and salad) was definitely more worth its price, with a perfectly spicy , sour and sweet dressed salad. A good portion of noodle, thought there could have been more meat. The most authentic drink on the menu, a saigon beer, does the job of a nice mild weissbier.

Going back for the Bun Thit Nuong, hopefuly cheaper during lunch hours, which would be an...

Very friendly staff. If not them, the place would have got 1 star. The atmosphere is somehow not matching the Vietnamese vibe I feel in other viet-food places. The dining area smells of cleaning solution, the entrance to the toilets is just from the dining area downstairs. Maybe the smell comes from there, not sure, but it spoils the impression for me a lot.

Speaking of smells - the soup smells very plain, the broth tastes very salty and somehow concentrated-strong, but not rich as bone or fish broths in other places, the meat in the soup was very few and also very plain. This just cannot be compared with any soup I had in other viet restaurants. I had a decent light meal for the end of the day, but my expectations were not met.

The appetiser spring rolls were okay. The sauce was good, the filling was cooked through, the dough was crispy.

The tea is of decent quality...

This restaurant seems a little too large for its own good. There were only 2 people working that day so there was a really long wait for the food. The guy who took the order cooked the food, which was interesting to see how he managed to cook up all the dishes without skipping a beat and serving the other customers as well. Food quality is very good and ingredients were fresh. The pho wasn't up to standard as the soup base was not quite there. But the other fried food was tasty and delicious. The curries were really spicy and we were used to spicy but this was not on a normal European level of spicy which was surprising. If you are there for a simple meal without much expectations you will have not...