Thinking of what to eat in Vietnam? Pho 24 is a option for you.
Pho 24
Pho 24 is a Vietnamese chain restaurant found all over from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh. The restaurant is with aircon and you have a peace of mind knowing your food is prepared in a clean environment.
Pho 24 restaurant
First, we ordered the ice coffee and ice tea to cool us down in the hot weather.
Famous Ice coffee
The coffee are in the metal cup and after pouring hot water into it, the coffee water will flow into the small glass cup with milk below and pour it into the glass with ice to make our ice coffee with milk!!!!! You must try both the ice coffee and tea! Refreshing!
Next on the appetizer. Fried spring roll is not that oily. How to eat it? Wrap the spring roll with the vege, dip into the not so spicy chili source and munch! Another good stuff.
Fried Spring Roll
For main dish, we had the beef rice noodle soup. The soup is tasty and one of the best beef soup I had.
Beef Rice noodle
And for the final dish of the day is the pork chop broken rice! The rice is really very smooth and much different from our rice from Thailand and Japan. The rice are really fine and don’t really know how to describe it but another must eat dish! Pork chop is fried and not oily 
Pork Chop Broken Rice
Cost of each dish? I can’t remember! The receipt in Vietnamese says total cost 90,000 Dong which is about 6-7USD
We realize that there are two Pho 24 resturant in Singapore as well! One in Millenia walk and the other at Upper Thomson. Will go and try it and find out if they are as good as those in Vietnam. Oops, nearly forgot the link to Pho 24 Vietnam
So now, you know what you can eat in Vietnam
My office in SaiGon overlooks the central Pho 24 kitchens on Hai Ba Trung Street and as their roof is open to the outside we can see right inside. This kitchen supplies all the Pho 24 in SaiGon.
The conditions are deplorable – dirty and with rats running around. Noodles are cooked late in the day, stored on open shelves in plastic bags. MOST restaurants keep noodles in a refrigerator. Then the noodles are distributed to their stores beginning around 05.00H in the morning.
The soup, or broth, is transported in containers that range from open plastic buckets to stainless steel containers.
This means the food you eat in their stores is old and NOT freshly cooked unlike places such as Pho 2000 (where Bill Clinton ate).
Not even the staff eat their noodles (which are free) – THEY ORDER IN!
The Pho 24 owners should know better as they were boat people who immigrated to Australia, so they should know what vlean food is.
The Pho 24 prices are also HIGHER than their competition by about 30%.
Sounds scary! Lucky I didn’t have any tummy aches.
I do think that cleanliness is a real big problem almost everywhere! You should really expose their dirty deeds! Any pictures to share?
Tried Pho 24 or Pho 2000. Want to try something unconventional. Pho with clams. I was wondering with some friends along the street near the ben thanh market and bump into this eatery called Pho Ngheu Huong Thanh. Wow, pho with clams. Never heard of it before. Tried the spicy soup with clams and yes, yes. It taste really good and we like the clams fried with lemon grass and chilli and its not hot at all and goes so well with bread. Drank their signature beverage called this Green Ocean and mann, it was refreshing. Located at 276 Le Thanh Ton, district 1. HCMC.