Pho Pho Vietnamese Restaurant — Restaurant in Howick

My girlfriend and I had a dinner here on 16 Feb 2020.

As you may wonder why there is the menu is partly in Korean, this restaurant was running by a Korean owner.

The dishes tasted "normal" good, with a subtle influence by Korean culinary culture. We ordered 1 starter and 2 dishes: #The fried spring roll, combined its sweet sauce, was possibly the best I have ever eaten in New Zealand. #The chicken hotplate tasted OK, nothing special and nothing really bad to complain, the only negative side is I felts its more like a "vegetable hotplate", not much chicken inside. #Fried rice with BBQ chicken/pork was ordinary and acceptable.

I spent NZD 45.5 for this dinner, which was very reasonable. People obviously expect that they are highly unlikely to have a "wow!"dining experience as its market position and price, but for who just want to have a normal, safe and ordinary dining experience, this restaurant can be one of choices in...

I came by for lunch and it was quite empty. I had the choice of table. The menu was fairly large and had interesting items in it. I ordered the soft shell crab and the pork and chicken chop on rice. The soft shell crab was really nice but quite expensive. The curry sauce that came with it was really tasty. I was served with just a pork chop rice. It pork chop was nice and flavourful and I had wanted to also taste the chicken one. I didn't really notice it since I was engrossed with the crab for a bit. I probably could have called them over but it wasn't that bad of a mistake, even though the place was quite empty. I was charged correctly though. I quite like the food but it is a bit priced, which could've been due to the crab. Service was ok but the wrong order was a bit annoying.

Edit: They have snails which were interesting. They did require digging it out...

Service is good, food arrives quickly and it tastes great! Portion sizes were good, enough to fill you up for sure. I would say appropriate for the price, wouldn't want the price to be any higher or the portions any smaller.

A girlfriend and I shared a set of spring rolls, a beef noodle dish and raw beef pho. We took home 3/4 of the noodles and had it for dinner. That cost us a total of $40

The idea of spring rolls and Pho at this place makes my mouth water!! Just went back on my own (days later) to get my fix haha

Looking forward to making my way through the menu slowly and hoping the food delivers each time!...