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Winter means beef noodle soup time. It’s so warming, healthy and delicious – compared to its fatty friend, laksa.  And the bonus is that it’s cheap – well most of the time, but definitely here at Pho  Noodle House. $8.50 will get you a steaming bowl of chicken or beef noodle soup, with the appropriate mountain of dunk your own condiments – bean sprouts, vietnamese basil, chillis and lemon juice.  The chicken one had more than enough meat – silky noodles, with onion and shallots touching the already deeply satisfyingi soup.   I couldn’t resist trying the summer rolls – $6 for 3 and regretted not sharing them, they were so filling, with prawns, vermicelli, lettuce and pork.  The dipping sauce one of the best – perfectly balancing sweet and savoury elements, and topped with toasted peanuts.

The beef pho was a generous serve of steaming hot noodles with thin slices of raw beef that you cook yourself in the soup.  There’s also a selection of cantonese style dishes, in addition to the traditional vietnamese favourites of vermicelli salads and crispy chicken with rice, as well as those laksas.  I’ll be back, but my only gripe is that it’s a bit slow.  I’ve accepted the fact that beef noodle soup isn’t made fresh for you (for that day, or week or dare I say month?), but anyway, the wait is worth it. 

Pho Noodle House Vietnamese Restaurant, 165 Concord Road, North Strathfield 

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