Heard about Huong Pho lately. They're a relatively new Vietnamese stall located in Food Haven Coffeeshop (5 Upper Boon Keng Road) which is a short trot from Kallang MRT. What they offer looked like the run of the mill variety not unlike most Vietnamese stalls around. Phở, bánh mì, spring/summer rolls and a bit of this and that.
Phở was pretty good. Light and beefy broth with a savoury sweetness and deliciously smooth and slurpy rice noodles. Rice-y tasting rice noodles at that. They obliged my request for tendon only. The only herbs/aromatics they had for topping was a mixture of spring onions and coriander and since the spring onions were tainted, I ended up with a clean bowl. It wasn't very different from a local bowl of beef noodles like that.
What intrigued me was their sardine bánh mì. I heard that their sardines are market purchased and cooked in house. The fish was mashed and spread into the baguette with pickles and some respectably spicy sweet and sour chilli sauce. This one was sans coriander obviously.
The sandwich was unexpectedly hefty. Not bad. Very street styled because the fish wasn't distributed evenly.
I like their chả giò. We waited a while for this and it came out freshly fried and piping hot. Texture was meaty underneath that crispy wrapping and reminded me of Peranakan ngoh hiong. There's wood ear fungus and fine carrot bits inside. This was nice.
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