Banh Mi & Che Cali — Restaurant in Alhambra

I traveled to LA and used uber eat to ordered my food.

On the Uber app, the menu was very confused.

They listed several categories that requires customer to selected. For example,

You need to select 4 different types noodles for your soup. Example: pho noodle, egg noodles, large vermicelli Noodle, or large Flat noodle. Then No spicy, medium spicy, or Very spicy. Then choose your own Veggies, however, for the veggies there is $.75 extra fee for bean sprout, onions , cola trời , Basil, cilantro. It’s supper confusing because I never see any Vietnamese restaurants requisite choose tbe noodles for the Beef Stew Soup, Phở, and Spicy Beef Noodle Soup (bun Bo hue) . They never asked customer to pick the vegetable for the special soup,which they should know what type of noodle supposed to go with what special noodle soup. They would never ask what type of vegetable to pick to eat with that special type of soup.

Because of the way they expected me to pick on their menu made me think they don’t provide bean sprout and I have to pick a type of noodle for each type of soup, so I paid more to get bean sprout to eat with the Bavitemsmse e eerof the bean sprout for my soups, and picked my own noodle.

At the time my food arrived, there was a bag of vegetable and beans sprout was packed along with each order of soup. No lemon to eat the beef stew soup . No utensils so how could we eat our soup? The chicken wing came with a very very tiny cup of ranch. The beef stew soup came with a lot of white radish and carrot. Very little beef and the soup tasted bad. It’s not even close to the traditional Vietnamese beef stew.

The Spicy Beef Noodle soup doesn’t smell and tasty like Bun Bo Hue and it’s not very spicy as requested. I’m a person who eat less salt and very less potassium but I still need to put a little Salt into the soup to make it taste a bit better. No tasted of shrimp sauce ingredient and cooked lemon grass inside the soup.

Pho soup doesn’t smell like the tradition Pho broth.

In concludes: its not worth it to buy the food here. No utensil to eat food if you are a traveler, not tastty, paid extra money to buy extra bean sprout...

Five Dollar PHO!!! Subway has nothing on Banh Mi Che Cali. Why eat that crap salad in old bread with meat toppings, when you can have a nice bowl pf tasty Pho for 5 dollars! If you still are craving a sandwich have a fresh baked baguette sandwich for around $3 at Banh Mi Che Cali! The name is difficult to remember, but once you try it you will never forget it. Say my name biotch!

Everytime I eat the pho here it brings tears to my eyes, because I pay close to 8 dollars for inferior PHO in the OC. If you are expecting a Super Bowl or extra large bowl, I'm sorry there is only one size that fits all (that's what she said), but you can always order more than one bowl. This restaurant is ALWAYS BUSY! So try not to visit during peaktimes. The parking lot is very small and there are not many tables inside the restaurant. I think its Cash Only, unless you spend at least $10 or more.

Its very nice that they have specials for 2 for 1 boba drinks for select teas and boba. I guess this is because of the competition of other restaurants in the area. Come on Banh Mi Che Cali open a location in Irvine!! I guarantee you will have no competition and will kick Lee's Sandwiches as$.

Highly recommended! Try Banh Mi Che Cali, just don't go when I'm there, because I don't like to wait :)....

This was one of my go-to's for a very long time but unfortunately, today did leave a very bad taste in my mouth. I simply asked for a cup of water for me and my friends, which apparently caused some conversation and debate between the servers. Not long after, we got our waters but in boba cups, sealed and in a carrier and were given a check for the water. After that, we asked about it and were told it 75 cents now, even though we saw someone else receive a Styrofoam cup of water. She told us he paid too but then why is the man paying for the water in a smaller container that we were paying the similar price for? While it is in the restaurant's right to provide any service but in this instance, this felt like targeted discrimination because every other Asian customer got the Styrofoam waters without issue besides us. Look, I'm a person of color and by family has also run a restaurant. But the treatment my friends and I received this time around felt like grounds enough for me to say something, unfortunately. It was an unfortunate situation and I really wish it...