Emới Jongro — Restaurant in Seoul

With tired feets and famished stomach, we starts to queue for this when we saw other people in line without even knowing that it was Vietnam food. It was after normal lunch hours and yet there are queues for it, 1st thought that came to mind, it must be good!Menu is pretty straight forward, either the soup one ( with Beef) or the dried noodles with pork...Ordered the dried noodles with pork one ( Pork slices, pork balls, spring rolls ) and the dipping sauce that goes with the noodles was ma-ma-mia! Refreshing and light which whets your appetite. My mouth are feeling really dry after this meal. Guess, there's quite a fair bit of MSG in it. It would have gotten perfect 5, if it wasn't for the dryness in the mouth.Personally, I'm not a fan of Vietnam food as there's this special sauce which I'm not used to. But this place makes me change my preference towards...

Right off the bat I have a bad feeling when I am sitting down, every worker speak Korean in a Vietnamese restaurant. It's not Korean can't make good Vietnamese food. But Vietnamese food are complex yet simple food, which make it difficult to master.

Every single ingredient that I got the taste are very different from the authentic Vietnamese food. The only thing I can common on is that their soup base I could taste the beef flavor. The shrimp ball I believe is store-bought. It is basically fish paste with little added shrimp and cover with flour then deep fry. They're deep fried spring roll I don't know how I could describe it but definitely not your typical Vietnamese flavor and The dipping sauce is a joke. I guess the Michelin recommend was when the previous owner received it and new owner took over and...

I love the taste of pho broth here. It's actually pretty good! I've noticed that they have the restaurant in various locations. And, I believe they all taste the same.

I knocked off a star for two reasons: the portions are too small, and it seems a little ridiculous that they charge customers ₩500 for a lime wedge. (I know limes are expensive in Korea. Then why don't they substitute them for lemon wedges like other pho restaurants do?) However, I have to say that I would still go back for the taste of pho ONLY despite the gripes...