Besides Pho Lan, Green Lemongrass is another Vietnamese restaurant that I go for pho in Richmond.

My friend and I decided to share a couple dishes for dinner. We ordered a House Special Pho, a Beef Short ribs with pressed noodles, and their Saigon Salad Roll.

Pho was really tasty here. The House Special Pho has raw steak, tripe, tendon, brisket and beef balls. The soup had a really herby taste to it, it didn’t taste like most of the other pho soups at other restaurants, and I liked it a lot.

The Saigon Salad Roll was different from a regular Vietnamese salad roll, mainly because it had slices of Vietnamese sausages in them. They weren’t too bad, they just taste less refreshing than a salad roll.

The Beef Short Ribs with Pressed Noodles was a really big dish. It came with 4 or 5 bbq short ribs, lettuce, bean sprouts, cucumbers, basil and pressed vermicelli noodles. It’s my second time having this dish here, and I still haven’t quit figured out how I’m supposed to eat it. I tried wrapping everything with the lettuce, wrapping everything with the pressed noodles, eat everything separately. If you know a ‘proper’ way to eat this, please let me know.

The beef short ribs were really tender, smokey and flavorful. The pressed noodles were just sheets of a bunch thin vermicelli noodles that got flattened together. The noodles weren’t seasoned, but there was lots of green onions, and Vietnamese sauce to flavor it. The beef short ribs was a really nice dish to eat in the Summer because everything is super fresh.

There were lots of other selections of different Vietnamese food, good place to check out in Richmond for Vietnamese food.

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Green Lemongrass
8180 Westminster Hwy
Richmond, BC V6X
(604) 270-6188

There’s only one place I go for pho in Richmond, Pho Lan. And the reason is simple, good food.

This place is pretty awesome, almost every time I walked it, I’d get seated right away, but that maybe got to do with the time I go. I usually go around 8pm, and I usually get to pick my seat.

Today I usually get Rare Steak with Beef Balls pho here, but today I tried Rare Steak and Tendon pho with a Spring Roll.

My Rare Steak Tendon pho today was pretty good. The broth tasted good as usual, but a little greasy. There were a fair amount of steak in my noodle soup, and they were really tender. I barely got any tendons though, I think I found 3, so I wasn’t too impressed about that.

They also cook their bean sprouts here, so if you like uncooked sprouts, you’d need to make a request. The sizes come in small or large. Beware of the large, it’s pretty giant, so make sure you are really hungry when you order it.

I always get their Spring Rolls when I come here. They are so yummy. The fillings were minced meat and rice vermicelli. They are always perfectly fried, the outside is always really crispy. I like to douse it in the sauce that comes with it before I eat it. This is a must get when you come here.

Note: Cash Only! Free parking at the back.

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Pho Tan
6950 #3 Rd
Richmond, BC V6Y
(604) 273-1583