The Red Boat

The banh mi is top notch here. I've shopped around at different offerings. But so far they have the better of the bunch. Still looking for that one that's the best for me. Pho broth can be borderline salty, which can mask the richness of a good flavored broth. Pick up food if you're around. One a the few spots in the city to get vietnamese food

I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E It's so low key. The milk honeydew tea is amazing. I had the Beef bowl with rice, cucumber, pickled carrot, and soy sesame sauce. We also got the spicy beef pho. If I hadn't been going over to hippodrome I had fully planned on taking my leftovers. I'd make the trip to Eutaw street from Harco everyday just to eat there. I loved it.

Bun Bo Hue was excellent. Broth rich flavorful, comes with brisket and good quality meatballs, not the chewy fat meatballs that some Vietnamese place give you. They allowed me to substitute eye round steak instead of brisket. No charge. Otherwise extra meat is $5. Got food really fast. And they exceeded my and my vegetarian wife's expectations. Also had bulgogi platter (pic) another visit. Meat was great. Cabbage was great. Wife (and I) loved her veg pho (pic) which is essentially a thai Tom Yum (lemongrass ) soup with vegies. She added tofu which is in that small bowl (pic). Tofu spring roll were better than I expected. Tofu was intentionally overcooked to make it a little more dense like chicken and it actually had some flavor as opposed to other places we've experienced. Some city riff raff came in and hassled staff on our first visit. Even across from the Hippodrome unfortunately still some desperate people floating around.