Pho Saigon — Restaurant in Houston

An older gentleman took my order. Very sweet but I felt super pressured as he stood and waited before I had a chance to open the menu. Never left even when I told him I needed some more time.

I wanted to order a drink and see what I wanted to eat. I wanted to try something new so I ordered the egg cream coffee and he said, "no." Unsure, I asked is it not available; not part of the menu anymore; is it gross? Just "no, you want Vietnamese iced coffee." I would still want to find out on my own accord. But he pushed me to the Vietnamese coffee.

I used the restrooms and washed up and saw yellow in the urinal. Smelled of urine. Flushed with my foot 3x. Still yellow from the scum. Unsure if the original yellow was toilet water over scum or legitimately urine. Not willing to find out.

Under the sink was cleaning supplies in a bucket. I saw a quart sized food grade container. I'm sure it is dedicated to the restroom but it definitely made me question sanitary standards. Regardless, I'm a boy. Pee pee. Wash hands and back to my table.

Coffee was definitely premade and iced added. Probably 3/4 to an inch to what I'd call full. I thought it'll be concentrated like everywhere else. Was trying to pour my water into it too dilute but there was debris on the lip of my water cup. Now I'm very concerned about the kitchen standards.

The pho was what I ordered after the gentleman telling me no to everything else. I do feel nothing I ordered today was my choice. Pho was your run of the mill. So was the iced Vietnamese coffee. Experience and sanitary standards concerns me.

I overhear other patrons ordering and there must be a language barrier because he was not understanding how a man wanted pho PLUS something else. Their party was missing a few but the gentleman pushed to order drinks now for everyone there and the few that are not there yet. Maybe he's trying to beat the lunch rush? Regardless, the iPod headphones sticking it his ear the whole time might have played a role in his service.

I overhear a couple asking for extra plates to share food but he kept on walking. Mind you, I am across the room and can still hear and see everything. Opposite wall.

I recommend you coming in yourself. Quite humorous. But I will not...

Came in during Beryl, since we were next door getting laundry done. We heard prior to going in, it was cash only (DURING BERYL) because the internet was down. When we came in, the older Vietnamese man confirmed, due to the internet outage, it was going to be cash only. We had no problem with that. He gave us a moment to look over the menu & was quick to bring our drinks. I ordered a Thai tea, no boba; my husband, a cafe sua da. The cafe sua da was perfect! It was strong and creamy. Made just right. I ordered the chargrilled lemon grass beef with egg rolls vermicelli noodle bowl, an appetizer of 2 egg rolls & my husband tried the rib eye steak banh mi.

The bun, vermicelli noodles, was made fresh to order. My only complaint about the bowl itself, my noodles were still hot. I'm use to the noodles on the cold side. As it's a cold noodle dish, for a refreshing taste in the summer heat. But the beef was so tender & flavorful, it was mouth drooling delicious! Since the beef was perfectly executed, I overlooked the noodles being warm. The banh mi was just as good. The jalapeno in the sandwich gave it just the right amount of spice and set off the flavor. Rib eye was cooked perfectly & mouth watering delicious. The egg rolls were just as good. A quick go to for egg rolls.

In the time we were there, multiple Vietnamese families came in and ate or got take out. You know an Asian restaurant is good when you see families or older asians...

This place is not good I don’t understand all these positive reviews. My boyfriend and I went to this location and their pho was so flavorless and tasted diluted with water. We told the servers that it was not good and if we could just take it off the tab because we didn’t want to eat there after witnessing all the flies and hair in my silver ware. A worker proceeded to tell us that the food was perfectly fine and kept denying the flavorless food and that he had it earlier and it was completely fine. I felt like I was transported to a Hell’s Kitchen episode and my boyfriend kept asking him to just remove the tab so the conversation did not escalate. he proceeded to do so while the servers literary kept looking our way and laughing and looking straight at us mocking us for our experience. This place is trash and so are the workers. Our pho plates were also overfilled with noodles and meat- when pho should primarily be focused on the broth. My boyfriend and I took one bite from our food and shortly after we left our stomachs started hurting so bad. We paid $20 for flavorless food and to be mocked at and for food poisoning....