Pho Country — Restaurant in Carson City

My wife and I are traveling across the country, on a budget, once more vegetarians. So when it comes to eating out on the road, the options are limited. We were in Carson City for a few days and came across this restaurant. We are huge fans of anything thai, vietnamese related, so after reading review we gave it a shot.

Anyone who rates this place as being fine dining or authentic vietnamese food has never had GOOD vietnamese food!

I got the Vegetable Curry with Tofu and my wife had the Kung Poa Tofu. Both were very bland, my wife had more peanuts than tofu in her's and my rice at the bottom tasted microwaved. The soup they brought us was just vegetables in water, which I would like, if it had taste to it!

The service was borderline "Big Trouble in Little China." Our service just walked over to us with a pad and looked at us, I guess that meant we should order now. The women who brought us our check just sat at the end of the room watching us eat. Seriously - just watching. . And 2 or 3 times she would come over to our table, look at just and our food and smile, then walk away. . no words, no questions. Just look at walk away.

They didn't ask us how the food was (a sign perhaps?) So in the end, we payed too much for too bland tasteless and boring food. You are better off driving to the next town if you expect that full on taste explosion of any good...

I don't know what happened to this place, but it is awful now compared to a few years ago. I stopped in today and ordered 3 things of Pho Noodle Combination soup, Fried Calamari and crab filled Rangoon. We brought it home and mixed it together in a big bowl as everything come separated with the soup. After we were settled in and ready to eat, my boyfriend pulled a very long strand of hair out of his soup and I wanted to throw up!! The Calamari was like and you couldn't chew it. There was no crab filling in the Rangoon. The soup no one wanted to eat after hair found it in it. I called them up and explained and didn't ask for all of my $65 dollars back.. but to be credited some. The guy at the register was extremely hostile, would cut me off and not let me talk and said I can bring the food back, but no bite better have been taken of it! Then told me I am a food waster and I am banned from coming back. I told him he didn't have to ban me, I won't come back on my own and will turn him in to the health department. He was verbally abusive and would not credit me anything and the food was no where worth the price I paid. Did someone buy this place? They never used to be this way. Hair in the soup, rubber calamari, and food that is misrepresented and not have in it what it supposed to have. Over charging and horrible customer service! I had tipped good. Disgusted!...

We've been to this restaurant before, but this time we decided to be adventurous and try something beside our usual spring rolls and pho... We ordered the first thing on the beef list, the last thing on the shrimp list, and something described as "Vietnamese Chow Mein with BBQ pork"... We should've asked the server more questions before choosing our entrees, because we were unpleasantly surprised... I'm not saying they cooked them wrong, (and with the 150-item menu being printed on two sides of a paper placemat, there isn't much room for detailed written descriptions), but they were definitely not what we were expecting, based on our previous (positive, but extremely limited) experience with Vietnamese cuisine... The beef-thing turned out to be some gnarly spinal bones covered in a thick layer of slimy unchewable fat interspersed with tiny bits of jerky-like meat in a sauce that tasted (to me) like how Raid bug-spray smells... The shrimp-thing tasted like how Lemon Pledge furniture polish smells, and the noodles were so rubbery and salty that we couldn't swallow them... Even the rice was weird... I give three stars, because I like their soups, and for all I know, maybe our entrees were supposed to taste that way; I am not very well aquatinted Vietnamese food. I will be more...