Saigon Express Pho

Came here for lunch and had their beef phở. Broth was bland and there was some strange odor coming from the bowl. Beef was also slightly over done. Unlike regular sit down phở restaurants, you don’t get a plate of sprouts and mint leaves. Instead, it’s all in the bowl (whether you like it or not).

Ordered their coconut chicken fried rice ($ 8.50?) Got it to go. For a location in this area, their food isn’t cheap. Phở starts at just above $ 7.00, if I’m not mistaken. Anyways, back to my order. My dad chose to order this, and when he did, I already knew that I shouldn’t have high expectations for it.
The picture of this fried rice on their overhead menu was very yellow. As in curry yellow. When I order coconut fried rice and it comes very yellow, I’m always highly skeptical of how much coconut is going to be in it. Usually, it’s stronger on the curry than the coconut. The coconut chicken fried rice here proved to be no exception to this rule. There was absolutely NO coconut taste. There was also very little chicken, and not many vegetables. Way too much rice to other stuff in this fried rice. The rice itself was not dry enough (as in not enough wok heat). The grains of rice in fried rice are supposed to separate. This was incredibly clumpy. Taste-​wise, this was fairly heavy on the curry powder. It tasted like a clumpy rice version of Singapore fried vermicelli.
I’m sorely disappointed. I will (hopefully) never get rice from here ever again. We’ll see about their phở.

Awful. Too many noodles, not enough meat in their special — I was fishing around just to find some tendon (which was quite soft, I have to say). They mix in the bean sprouts rather than serve it on the side, which I don’t like, and they don’t even understand Viet… so ordering a Ca Phe Sua was a bit confusing — especially as they don’t have it anyway! For what you get for $ 8, I’d say find a better place.

I’m a student and I live really close by. Unless I m hanging out with friends, I go here to eat every single day. The reasons why I like here so much are the food taste really delicious (I tried everything in the menu), the price are cheap for this quality and quantity.
I have been to Vietnam twice in my life, and I love phở a lot. I tried different phở in Toronto but I think this place have the most similar soup base compare to what I had in Vietnam. Although the phở noodles are not as good as Vietnam, It is still pretty good compare to most of the place in Toronto. The beef are fresh and just perfectly done every single time (never over cook. I hate well done beef in a phở).
Their grilled lemongrass beef, pork chop and chicken taste really amazing and really juicy. I don’t know what’s their secret methods but I know whenever I order it and they will grill it at that time. They make sure the food that provide to customers are freshly made. Tbh. I love the lemongrass even more than the phở haha.
The last part of their menu are Thai food. I tried all of them and my recommendation will be pad Thai, Malaysian fry rice, Thai beef and the red curry chicken.
Pad Thai — their sauce just perfectly prefect. Not too sour, not too sweet. Just right
Malaysian — smells really good, a little spicy and the favour will be a little bit like xo sauce.
Thai beef — fresh deep fry beef with their own secret sauce. Similar to other Thai food. Sweet and sour and a bit of spicy. Yummy.
Red curry chicken — a little of spicy, love their curry sauce. Delicious.
All the food served with rice and veggies except phở of cuz. Most of the food are around $ 8-​$ 10 and really good amount of food. I know I might be over compliment but this is one of my favourite restaurant so yeah lol.

I had the wonton brisket noodle soup (number 5 on the main menu) and it was not to par. The brisket was over cooked and the noodles hard. The soup itself was decent.

I was actually going to get groceries but was hungry and as I was walking towards the grocery store I saw a sign with different deals.
The prices looked fair so I decided to go in. I ordered the house special Vietnamese noodle beef soup.
I sat down and in about five minutes my hot bowl of noodle soup came to me. The first thing I did is take a sip of the soup and the broth tasted very good was actually very impressed with the soup broth.
it was definitely very good and the portions for good had a lot of meat and I strongly recommend that anybody that’s in that area to make their way to this restaurant because it was a pleasant surprise