Pho Luv Hickory Creek — Restaurant in Texas

I can’t believe I had never tried this place before today!!! I live right up the road. New favorite, I’ll be back all the time now. Really impressed with everything.

The Thai boba was perfect! So many places make them way too sweet and they come out tasting like kids’ cereal milk. PLEASE please please make a large size. I struggle with my appetite a lot and at times won’t eat for a whole day, but I still really enjoy cold drinks and so try to pick ones with more substance (like boba). Being able to run up the road and grab a large boba would be a godsend.

Got pork with egg and fried rice. Probably one of the best local dishes I’ve had around here. It’s obviously fresh. Cannot overstate how banging that pork was. Everything was much lighter than I was expecting. When I think of fried rice, I sort of imagine it like wood-brown and slathered in oils, but it was way lighter here. Feels much easier on my sensitive tummy.

Interior was comfortable, quiet, and cute. The two men I interacted with were hella friendly and my food came out before I finished a game...

Was craving Pho and decided to pay the extra 5+ dollars for delivery. Not the best experience. Everything was hot and came packaged well. We ordered dumplings and shrimp rice paper lettuce wraps. Those were great! The pho was perfectly portioned but the broth had no flavor to me and I had to add my own. That's fine. The reason for the more negative review is the Mi Xao Bo and Thai tea. For $5 for each tea, we got 2-3 sips only because the ice was full from bottom to top of cup. Also the color was almost completely white, even when mixed. It tasted like 95% milk which was really sad. The noodle dish was the worst part though. My husband actually ended up throwing it away after two bites, opting for a microwave meal instead. He said, "I feel like I am eating buffet Chinese but for quadruple the price." I took a bite and agreed. A bit upsetting with how great the reviews were for this place. Maybe they were like that because it was two hours until close? Overall it was just so-so. We won't order from here again. Wish there were more pho choices...

I ordered food for home and they sent me frozen raw beef and said we forgot to take it out of the freezer bc it was busy and said it was in fridge for a little while. Instead of knowing this and giving another option and stating we don’t have beef ready, then I said why would you ever do that in the food industry, he said it shouldn’t be frozen still as I'm holding a frozen piece of meat in my hand and proceeded to tell me to cook it myself. Then stated I can bring it back when I asked to speak to the owner. WTH? That’s highly unsanitary and bacteria could have caused me to get sick or food poisoning with cross contamination.

Update-manager would not even touch the meat after telling me it wasn’t frozen and said they will do better checking the temperature of the meat next time-I have literally NEVER heard of anything like that. My wife had to handle this due to knowing myself. It didn’t need a thermometer, someone touched frozen meat….and they were aware of it in the comment above-then tell me to cook...