Pho Saigon South

Reviews about Pho Saigon South

• 5 / 5

  By Rolandria Brown
  Awesome place to have in Kingsland. Ordering shrimp fried rice for the second time this week! Also, the prices are very reasonable. I only wish they didn't take the bubble smoothies of the menu. I love those things. The young lady that usually takes your order is very friendly.
  May 13, 2017
• 5 / 5

  By Lyric Jones
  I took my cousin here for dinner, and I could not be happier with the restaurant. It was very clean, bright, and open. The service was excellent, and the food even better. When I asked if it would be a problem to exclude an ingredient, I was informed that each dish was prepared fresh, which was extremely good to hear. My cousin is also very picky, but loved his meal. 5 stars, will definitely go again.
  April 20, 2017
• 5 / 5

  By Sean Burris
  Fresh basil. High Quality Ingredients. Loved the experience! Saw good traffic coming in for pick up orders.
  March 09, 2017
• 5 / 5

  By Khanh Nguyen
  Kingsland. You are so lucky to have this restaurant. My inlaws have had a LakeHouse here since the mid 90s, and I've come here a few times a year for the past 20 years. The food here is what you would expect for a town of 4500. Most restaurants are okay. A couple of the Mexican places are decent. But you're not going to find any Michelin stars getting thrown around here anytime soon.
  
  Well imagine my surprise tonight when I ordered take out dinner for 14 from Pho Saigon Kitchen. This place is awesome!!! We ordered across the board and nothing disappointed.
  
  I should mention that I'm from Vietnam and a restaurant owner myself.
  
  Kingsland, you now have a Vietnamese restaurant that would stand up to the top 20% of Vietnamese restaurants in ANY city of any size in the world.
  
  It's up to you all to take care of this place and make sure that they get enough business to make it.
  
  For those who are not familiar with Vietnamese food, you need to go try it.
  
  I'm going to help you all out with a Vietnamese food primer:
  
  - The food at this restaurant is very approachable for a new eater. Some Asian restaurants use strange cuts of meat like tripe or tendon or fatter cuts, but this restaurant doesn't. All of their beef, pork, chicken, shrimp was lean and of very good quality.
  
  - For those of you who are afraid to try a new cuisine, don't be. Vietnamese food is mainly just rice, rice noodles, with beef, pork, chicken, shrimp or tofu. It's delicious and very easy to eat.
  
  - Vietnamese food is mostly not spicy. We eat it spicy but it's up to you to add hot sauce to it to make it hot for yourself. It isn't cooked spicy. That said, their dishes that say they are spicy in the title are slightly spicy, but even my kids didn't have any issues with the heat.
  
  Here are the dishes that we tried. They were all good:
  
  1. Pork spring rolls. Good quality. (To the owners, your peanut sauce is good on taste but it was a little thick. Please add a little bit of hot water to the mix in your prep and this will be solved).
  
  2. Salt and Pepper calamari. This was delicious. Calamari was not chewy at all and flavors were on point. I'd increase the amount of Calamari by about 25% though.
  
  3. Pho with rare steak. Delicious!!! This is the Vietnamese national dish. Beef stock that's been slow cooked with beef bones for hours and served with rice noodles and rare eye of round steak. This is a very hard dish to make right and pho kitchen nails it. The bone broth is made authentic, you can taste it. And if you reheat the left overs, you will see that there's bone broth by-product that you need to skim off, a sign of authentic pho.
  
  4. Beef and Pork vermicelli bowls. Delicious. Marinade is perfect. Good level of lemongrass. My only thought for the owners is to increase the sweetness of the fish sauce slightly. Your fish sauce is more northern style and I prefer a slightly sweeter mix like they make in Saigon. I think you'll find that the American clientele will like it better too.
  
  5. Crispy egg Noodles. Nailed it.
  
  6. Viet chicken salad. One of the best versions of this that I've ever had. Your vinegar dressing on this is perfect. Perfect sweetness level.
  
  7. Beef salad. Great.
  
  I will be eating from this place every single time I come to Kingsland from now on.
  
  Local folks. Please realize how lucky you are that a great Vietnamese place has opened here.
  
  Please go try it. Trust me. You will love it.
  
  Btw. The famous celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain calls Pho his death row meal. And Pho Saigon kitchen makes a very good version of it.
  
  
  June 30, 2016