Pho Island II — Restaurant in Manteca

Ever since new owners took over almost a year now. The quality of food had gone down. My husband asked if their Lemongrass chicken asked is it chicken breast? And she quickly said YES! Yikes dark tough brown meat. My husband did not eat it. I ordered fresh egg rolls with shrimp and sliced pork. It came with lettuce lots of rice noodles and a slice of pork..Yuck! And they try to tell me it's how the fresh rolls come?.Ah..a BIG NO..The rolls stuff come with carrots daikon herbs green onions and meat. PLUS big leaves of lettuce and more veggies and herbs Another way to cut cost.

FROM a previous waiters complaint the new owner TAKES a cut of their TIP end of the day tip jar At 25%!!!! UNHEARD OF IN THE INDUSTRY! They had 2 waiters and 15 tables to attend tonight's busy Wednesday night.

I used to loved eating with the old owners. Tasty food and no short cuts on real Vietnamese cuisine. And they also raised their prices. I dont mind paying more for GOOD Vietnamese food..but our experienced tonight.

Just reinforced NOT WORTH spending our money on this place. But the owner taking 25% from the tip jar? Over worked underpaid waiters and a 25% cut from their tip jar..the owner is...

1. For the first time in my life, I saw a cook bark at his staff in front of ALL the guests, that if they want to eat they have to make it themselves! At that moment, I saw the entire (hungry) staff of four get sad looks in their eyes. Quite cruel and shameful.

2. We ordered Egg Rolls. Cook pressed staff to give us egg rolls that were 10 minutes old that another customer never showed up for.

3. We paid $4.95 for fresh egg rolls. We didn’t notice until we got home that the cook did not make them.

The service staff was wonderful, informative and helpful. The food was good, but if the cook is so cheap that he wouldn’t make us fresh egg-rolls like we paid for, I imagine he serves food past its expiration date as well.

Would I spend my hard-earned dollars here again? No! Will I be back to get my $4.95 they ripped me off for? Absolutely. To I trust the cook to respect patrons enough to serve non-expired food to save a buck? Hell no!

I’ll never forget how sad the entire service staff appeared all-at-once when the cook told them if they want to eat they have to make it themselves. This place abuses kids trying to make a...

So, my boyfriend and I were heading home from a trip up north and just randomly ended up in Manteca. We were hungry and this restaurant just happened to be in that particular area.

We were seated fairly quickly and received menus to look at. My boyfriend left to use the restroom and the waitress (bigger, Caucasian female) asked what I wanted to eat right away. I didn't even get a chance to look through the menu yet. So, I politely told her that I needed a few more minutes and that there was another person with me as well. Well, right as my boyfriend gets to the table, she literally says, "Are you ready or what?" Like, excuse me? There was no reason for her to be so rude. They weren't even busy...

I ordered the pho #2 and my boyfriend got the oxtail pho. The broth was okay, I've definitely had better and the noodles were way soggy but they aren't skimpy on the meat.

Wasn't too crazy about the pho but if I'm ever in the area, I'd probably try this place out again because their vermicelli looks so good! Lol. Besides the rude waitress, everything...