Pho Tai — Restaurant in Hayward

We tried this pho for the first time. I had the vegetable pho with vegetable broth and my bf had the meatball pho.

Veggie pho- DELICIOUS! It had fresh vegetables and a great taste. It was a pretty big bowl hence the $13-14. I LOVED IT!

Meatball pho- delicious in flavor BUT had a huge miss with the texture of the meatballs. These meatballs are made from frozen. They were chewy and SQUEAKY! The entire dish could be elevated if made with fresh meatballs. My bf would not likely recommend or reorder this particular pho (nor would I). Again the flavor was very good, but the squeaky meatballs were off putting. Not worth the $14-15ish dollars.

We will be dining at this location in the future to try their other dishes. When we picked up the food it was STEAMING HOT! made it all they way home that way too :).

The ambience was good and clean and they take a priority in their customers health. As they've posted on their door, all of their staff is vaccinated.

(PSSST! restaurant if you are reading this please improve/change your meatballs! Well only if you'd like. it could improve your dish, this is the opinion of two...

This is not my first time here. I alway Oder bun Bo Hue every time I come here. But today I want to try something different so I order the shrimp grill with the rice noodles. When the food come the shrimp was too small and it’s over cooked and look like it left over. No taste at all and rubbery. Look at the picture I put all shrimp at the small sauce bowl look how small it’s. And then I tell the server to change it to the grilled pork instead and she act like she doesn’t understand so I ask for the grilled pork on the side. She took it out and the meat was smelly and doesn’t seems like fresh at all. And then she brings me the bills while I’m still eating. I don’t even finish my dishes because it’s so disgusting! I’m so disappointed and not even say sorry. I will not comeback here and not recommending anyone to come here. This is my first time putting reviews on google I never want anyone bad business but this...

I had seen this new restaurant numerous times on my way home and only got the chance to visit it today. This will probably be my one and only visit. Service was a bit slow and it was at 4pm when there were no crowds. Alert: they charge you for tea and it's just a Lipton's tea bag. How could you not serve Jasmine tea in a Vietnamese restaurant I asked? I ordered the rice plate with fried chicken wings and pork chop which was excellent. The nuoc mum (dipping sauce) was a bit bland. The rice turned out to be the deal breaker for my next visit. As it turned out it was spoiled and had a funny smell. After I brought it up to the attention of a worker (possibly owner), all he said was "let me talk to the kitchen" and didn't do anything. Prices are much higher in this place. I had better go back to...