Saigon Noodle House — Restaurant in Oʻahu

One of my top favorites. Known for having the Best Pho on Island, so great one of my friends drives from Waikiki to Kailua just for their Pho. My favorite dish is #7 Satay Chicken and Kal Bi short ribs, served with rice, lettuce, cucumbers and a spring roll. Always start with an order of Spring Rolls before ordering your meal. Big portions with lettuce, lemon grass and cucumbers. You can do it traditional style and wrap the Spring Roll or just grind em like me dunk just the Spring Roll in the absolutely awesome sauce they have. The sauce is so great I usually don't eat Cucumbers but with a dip in the sauce I eat all of them. Everyone I have taken to eat at Saigon Noodle House for their first time becomes a regular Customer. My Wife has tried multiple different menu options and none have disappointed her. It just makes it harder to decide next time🤣. During peak lunch time you maybe have to wait but it will be a short wait and well worth it. Recommend for everyone, large portions and surprisingly moderate price. My #7 Lunch 16.90 and couldn't finish it all. Superb staff, so polite and professional. Now just go to Saigon Noodle House and enjoy, you won't...

So I am not Vietnamese however I am a lover and very passionate about pho, banh mi, and other Vietnamese foods. I've even traveled to Vietnam twice just for the food. So out of all the pho restaurants I went to in Hawaii this is probably one of the worst. $15 a bowl for a pretty good size bowl full of noodles and meat but honestly the broth just tastes like salt water. And it was salty indeed. I don't understand why they would make the soup this salty.

I ordered the special combo and my coworker ordered the pho with brisket. Both of us thought it was waaaaay too salty. In fact they had to go take medication to reduce the sodium in their system because of it. And they felt light-headed afterwards. For those of you that are Vietnamese or have been to Vietnam and you're saying this is authentic then I'd be curious to try to places that you prefer in Vietnam.

Honestly because the soup was so salty I honestly don't know how the meat or the noodles, or anything else tasted sorry.

The people were very nice though. But the restaurant looked kind of dirty especially behind...

The low rating isn't about the quality of the food but the service and integrity. Do NOT be FOOLED by their 4.4 stars. It's not even about the food or how busy they were or that they literally had one guy working but the INTEGRITY and being HUMBLE. When the owner fights with a paying customer and had the audacity to come slap his "5 star" Yelp certificate on the table to show off and be pompous about, that's when you lose me. I don't care how "wonderful" you are to those people who gave you "5 star" reviews but if you're not distributing that "5 star" treatment equally to ALL your customers, local or foreign, you're a BIG, FAT 0 in my book. End of story.

By the way, our bill was about $50 and no one touched their food. It was that bad. We lost our appetites. We all had an amazing day until we walked into that restaurant.

Also, we had 4 people but only got 3 menus and 3 cups of water. The 4th cup arrived 10 minutes later...