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Pho Hung
- 350 Spadina Ave. (at Dundas St. W.) • View on map »
- 416-593-4274
The fluorescent-lit Pho Hung empire is as popular as ever, despite the fact that flavours have become a little Canadianized over its quarter-century reign. Pho might be in its name, but the dish to order is the inventive bun vermicelli bowl (number 39, to be precise). Small, juicy beef sausages are wrapped in mint and grilled, served alongside balls of minced shrimp on sugarcane and doused in lime and fish sauce. It offers the contrasting sweet, sour, salty and spicy hits that are the reason we love Southeast Asian food. A word to the wise: stick to the cheap stuff. For instance, Vancouver crab in tamarind curry brings a rather old crustacean with hardly any stringy meat. Fizzy lemonade is a bright, zingy beverage, served by worker ant–like servers.
350 Spadina Ave. (at Dundas St. W.)
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