Sunday, February 27, 2011

PHO HA IN RANCHO CUCAMONGA-Not Your Grandmother's Soup

OK, you're at the Foothill Village Shopping Center,on the Southeast corner of Foothill/Hellman, in Rancho Cucamonga. Oh, and you're hungry.



Do you...?



A) Go to Chuck E. Cheese and pay wayyyy too much for really bad food, or...



B) Look over your shoulder and find this ?

Pho Ha-Rancho Cucamonga
9319 Foothill Blvd. #C
Rancho Cucamonga,CA
909-980-7703
Read Yelp Review Here

Trust me when I tell you to leave all the petulant children, inattentive parents and annoying oversized rat, and run as fast as you can to the restaurant with the funny looking squiggly line over the "O" in Pho Ha(prounounce Fa Ha, or Fu Ha..I'm still not totally sure).

So now that I've saved you from the drudgery of The Cheese, let me tell you what Pho Ha is.
What it is NOT is not your grandmother's soup restaurant, unless your grandmother is Vietnamese. In which case, I'd like to be invited the next time she makes soup. What it is, is a very healthy beef or pork based soup. It is served piping hot with various thinly sliced pieces of meat. and noodles already in the soup. With it comes a plate of bean sprouts, lemon wedges and fresh mint sprigs. To it, you can add various sauces that are already bottled on your table.

In addition to the soups, there are a wide variety of other very tasty Vietnamese salads, spring rolls, sea foods, and Asian drinks you may not have tired, but should. All of them are very reasonably priced.

'A couple of warning for you. If you go on a weekend, plan on waiting. The place is generally packed and loud. It's not a place to take your prom date. But if you like very good, reasonably priced, ethnic food, by all means,go.