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For $5 to $10, on a cold winter day, warm the inside with a bowl of steaming hot Pho (Vietnamese beef soup noodles) and a cafe suna?(Drip filtered coffee with cornation milk). One of my comfort food.

No disgusting or disrespectful comments, please.

For me, it has to be the 'train-head' XL size bowl. The beef has to be pinkish fresh, my preference are lean cuts with hardly any fat. To be cook in a brothy beef stock soup. The noodles has to be the white soft and smooth flat type, almost melt in your mouth but not soggy otherwise been in soup too long. With lots of hot and sweet sauce.

Used to be the best: Pho 98 @ Spadina & Dundas. It is a greasy spoon joint has since gone downhill.

Now: the occassional Pho 88 chain. I find the suburb Pho 88s tends to be better.

Another comfort food for warm summer days is Mun(?), the cold flat noodles with viet spring roll, beef, salted pork. Occasionally go for the fresh fruit drinks but usually stick with the fresh dripped coffee.

Where's favor place?
 
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We used to go to Pho 88 at Warden and Bamburgh but for the past few years it has been Green Bamboo at Sheppard and Midland, southeast corner.

I get the rare beef with tendon with fresh wide rice noodles.
Add some lime and chilli peppers and it is one of the best meals for me.
We go there at least a couple of times per week and in fact I am going there right now. :)

The deep fried tofu is great and the calamari is pretty good too.
 
Best Pho I ever had is at leslie and Hwy 7. In Times Square, they specialize in Pho, the whole menu is just Pho with a couple of rice dishes. Awesome broth! Name is somehting like Pho'Mi or something.
 
my vote goes to pho88 at warden and bamburgh.

someone said the one at times square is good. i found that place to be one of the worse pho places foodwise.
 
I used to love the Pho restaurant on St. Clair W, east of Old Weston road on the north side of the street. I think it was on the corner of Silverthorn and St. Clair. I could never remember the name of it, just that it was right on the corner of the block, and had a sign with a drawing of a turtle on it. I also loved the desserts they made. Now I live to far away and are only left with tasty memories.
 
Great choice Don

Don said:
I like the Pho Hung on Spadina and Dundas(?)
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On Spadina, west side, 2 blocks north @ Kensington.

Lots of great reasonably priced Vietnamese food on their menu.
 
Pho SG at the corner of Warden & Eglinton E. Outside of the strip mall.
There's usually a lineup during the lunch hour because of nearby offices.
 
I love Pho but I don't go as often as I used to because I observed some of the places in Chinatown not washing the chopsticks! They just collect them from the empty bowls, wipe them of with a kitchen rag and put them back in the bins on the table! Also, the last time I was at XeLuan (sp) the grease on the floor was a major slip hazzard.

I now stick to PhoHung @ Bloor/University, Ginger or the places at Steeles-Warden. There is an pristine XeLuan in Markham (Kennedy/Hwy7) but I have no way get there anymore.

I first got hooked at the place at Finch/Keele (Pho'Houng??) and at one point went twice a week for lunch.
 
PHO 99 in Mississauga

goodtime said:
For $5 to $10, on a cold winter day, warm the inside with a bowl of steaming hot Pho (Vietnamese beef soup noodles) and a cafe suna?(Drip filtered coffee with cornation milk). One of my comfort food.

No disgusting or disrespectful comments, please.

For me, it has to be the 'train-head' XL size bowl. The beef has to be pinkish fresh, my preference are lean cuts with hardly any fat. To be cook in a brothy beef stock soup. The noodles has to be the white soft and smooth flat type, almost melt in your mouth but not soggy otherwise been in soup too long. With lots of hot and sweet sauce.

Used to be the best: Pho 98 @ Spadina & Dundas. It is a greasy spoon joint has since gone downhill.

Now: the occassional Pho 88 chain. I find the suburb Pho 88s tends to be better.

Another comfort food for warm summer days is Mun(?), the cold flat noodles with viet spring roll, beef, salted pork. Occasionally go for the fresh fruit drinks but usually stick with the fresh dripped coffee.

Where's favor place?
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PHO 99 at Hurontario and Eglinton, near Toys'R Us!
 
Have to check it out.

mass123 said:
Best Pho I ever had is at leslie and Hwy 7. In Times Square, they specialize in Pho, the whole menu is just Pho with a couple of rice dishes. Awesome broth! Name is somehting like Pho'Mi or something.
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Have to spend more time up on Hwy 7 area, whether Time squre or First Markham to sample.

Been passing by the Warden & Eglinton place many times in last time, have to give it a try.

Was at the new Pho place just up the street from Diamond spa at McNichol. Found their broth to be sweet, not my bowl of soup, noodles was good, prefer the beef to be sliced very thin. Will not repeat at least for Pho. The Mon was ok.
 
I was thinking of setting up a chain of these restaurants and calling them That's Pho Sure. JK

But seriously these places are everywhere in the GTA. I work in Markham they are a dime a dozen. I ate at one at Warden and Steeles it was pretty good. I must say good value XL bowl for like $6.50.
 
Think we went to Pho 88 on Spadina after the renov, the sticky floor was such a turn-off, we decide stick to the suburb. But then we put up with the San Jose joint, turned out to be 1 of the best Pho ever.

For a min there thought you're referring to VIP Saigon on Kennedy near Lawerence. Then realize it's different eatery.
 
Golden Turtle on Ossington just north of Queen. There was an article in Toronto Life this summer, asking where do the chefs go to eat. Golden Turtle one of the faves for Susur Lee and Guy Rubino for their Pho. It's their broth that was noteworthy.
 
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