Pho Zabb — Restaurant in Boston

I have been coming here for 2 years now on a consistent basis. Today, I was made to feel extremely uncomfortable by the male server who serves during the day. It started with once I sat down which was 11:30 when they opened. I mentioned it was a bit hot and asked if their air was working (simple question) non-accusatory, the waiter then alludes to the fact that I walked right in once they opened and maybe the restaurant would’ve been colder had I not come in when they opened. After letting him know multiple times I was fine with where I sat, he moved my menu anyways to an area I did not want to be in. The water cup I was given was broken and making pools of water on my table- he did not change it although noticing I was wiping water the table the entire time. Last but not least— after paying my bill in exact change he has the nerve to ask me where the tip is. After seeing my face absolutely mortified by that question, he tried to joke around and say “wasn’t the food made with love?” My food wasn’t packed up, and I was nowhere near ready to leave. Usually I leave the cash tip on the table as I head out. I responded by letting him know I wasn’t leaving yet and I had planned on putting it on the table. I felt so uncomfortable by this exchange I wanted to let him know for future reference. After coming up to the counter and giving him his tip in hand, I told him he really should not assume someone is not giving him a tip and him asking me that way made me uncomfortable. He says “okay have a nice day goodbye” over and over again and I repeated- no you made me very uncomfortable and an apology would’ve been nice. He laughed at me as I walked out. This was somewhere I went once a week easily and I really enjoyed all the workers I’ve had thus far but this experience really made me uncomfortable to ever come back. Please don’t allow your servers to do this again, this ruined my...

My girlfriend and I ate there the other night. We both ordered the wonton soup (which tasted really good, we both noted the broth was unusually savory).

About 30 minutes into our dinner my arms started to feel numb/heavy and my chest felt tight - almost as if I was getting muscle cramps. I didn’t think much at first, but it kept getting worse. I mentioned to my girlfriend I was not feeling well. To my surprise she said the same thing, and commented her arms were feeling really heavy and she almost had a slight stinging/burning sensation.

Doing some research, turns out a massive amount of MSG can cause these exact symptoms in some people (source: Cleveland Clinic + PubMed). The only dish we both had in common was the soup.

We’re both no strangers to takeout food and MSG - I even cook with it myself, so it was surprising this has such an effect on us. There must have been a truly massive amount in the broth (explains why it was so unusually savory haha).

In summary - there is likely a ton of MSG in the food (even by normal takeout food standards). If you have any sort of sensitivity towards MSG, maybe avoid the wonton soup. I can’t speak to how much is in the other food as I only had the...

Very poor service. If you are not ready to provide service, you better take a day off. Pho was not really Traditional Vietnamese food. Taste more like cheap Chinese food taste. To get into the store, you need to go around the building to find to get to the restaurant due to snow. If owner or worker cared about customer, they should clean some snow in front of the store. When I mentioned to the server working today( boy one server) she seems don’t care about that. We ordered three pho with no cilantro, and later ordered one fried-rice due to poor portion of the soup. She brought fried rice with cilantro on the top and. We were the only one table. Once I complained, she took it back and kept in the kitchen and kitchen staff digged out cilantro pieces and just brought back same food instead cook it again. Taste was the worst part. Not very honest restaurant. If you want a good Vietnamese restaurant, DO NOT GO THIS PLACE!!!!!! You don’t want to have bad...