Thanh Tam II — Restaurant in San Francisco

📍in SF PHO REAL 🍜🥩☕ @midwestmunching

First stop to celebrate this ❄️szn is PHO. We came to San Francisco to celebrate one of my high school/Google Hong Kong friend's wedding 💒

We extended our stay for a few days so that we could enjoy some bomb food of course 😋 stayed around the mission district area and bumped into this bad boy

🏆This is the 2nd restaurant that Thanh Tam had. Which means that it was so good that they were able to expand in SF! If any of you have been to sf , the rent is so high that if your restaurant is not good , you'll close down pretty quickly :)

👍Wouldn't say it's over the top or the best pho I've had around the world. At the very least, I'd say that this place is legit and you get really authentic viet food made by viets. There's a large menu full of the classic stuff eg Banh mi, and of course pho

🍜If you order the special combo, you get raw, flank steak, tripe, and beef balls. The noodles are nice and chewy and soup is towards the sweeter side. The basil, bean sprouts, and chilli are all surprisingly fresh, which makes your $14 medium sized (yes.. this pho is only medium sized) even BETTER

🍗🍤but.. MVP most of all is this spring roll . Nice and crispy + filled up with the best ingredients pork, vermicelli, mushroom, carrot. Tightly packed to a T and deep fried till a golden brown. They give you noodles, lettuce, cilantro, and cucumber to pair the...

I've been going here for years as I live around the corner, and Thanh Tam II never disappoints. There's something for everyone on the menu, and while I'm someone who often orders the same exact thing at restaurants I am familiar with, I have at least 5 'go to' items on this menu that I always have a hard time choosing between. The vermicelli bowls are pretty perfect as is their pho, and the clay pot dishes are also all excellent. The black bean fish is a generous portion and it's also delicious. Their egg rolls are pretty perfectly done. The staff are all super nice to visit and they are a very efficiently run place. It was always quick to get a table and get served even on busy nights. I'm glad they are open again after being closed for a time due to COVID (I am pretty sure - it's what it looked like to me at least) and look forward to ordering some takeout...

Thanh Tam is one of my favorite spots in the city - a no frills place with simple decor, quick service, and great comfort food, nestled among much higher flying places on a bustling Valencia street.

The lemongrass tofu is one of the best tofu dishes I’ve had, with a great tofu texture and highly flavorful lemongrass-based sauce

The hot and spicy vegan noodle soup is among the best vegetarian phos I’ve had, with tons of depth to the broth, a solid mix of veggies, two types of tofu (including the rare tofu skin preparation), and tons of noodles (I modify the noodles to egg noodles to get what I think a better, less slippery texture).

Top everything off with Harry’s quick, attentive, and familiar service, and Thanh Tam will always be one of our...