Restaurant Reveiw
Pho Duy is a restaurant that gives Fort Collins residents a
chance to experience traditional Vietnamese food that would
otherwise be hard to find.
Atmosphere
Located at 902 W. Drake Road, Bldg #1, the first look inside
will reveal an elaborate yet casual dinning setting. The quiet
atmosphere offers a peaceful and relaxing experience for what may
be a first encounter with the Vietnamese culture for many Fort
Collins residents.
Service
Before enjoying your meal, plan on brushing up on your chopstick
skills; at Pho Duy, there is no such thing as a fork and knife. Not
to worry, a very fast and considerable staff is willing to teach
beginners.
Food
Aside from the remarkable service, Pho Duy’s food has a very
unique taste, especially for someone trying the cuisine for the
first time. The appetizer Chao Tom, which is rice paper rolls with
grilled shrimp on sugar cane and vegetables, proved to have an
interesting look, similar to a see-through egg roll, but an
unmatchable taste.
Manager Steve Kim recommends the seafood noodle or yellow egg
noodle soups, in which you can pick your choice of ingredients from
crabmeat to pork to shrimp. He also recommends the noodle bowls,
which are made with thin rice noodles and again, your choice of
combination ingredients including beef, egg rolls and chicken.
Bun Dac Biet – don’t worry, when ordering you can just point at
what you want – is a
delicious noodle bowl with an egg roll, grilled pork, grilled
beef and fried shrimp rolls. Dig deeper into this giant bowl of
surprises and an array of fresh vegetables is found at the bottom.
This large but healthy meal was a new and interesting culture of
tastes to the buds. But someone who is trying this dish for the
first time may discover that while the first bites seem to be
exceptional, the deeper the bowl got, the less stimulating the meal
becomes.
Manager Steve Kim says that the restaurant opened in Fort
Collins after the owner, Maiahn Tran noticed that many Fort Collins
residents were taking the southward-bound journey to Denver in
order to eat at one of the Pho Duy’s three sister restaurants.
“Since we opened in Fort Collins, the restaurant has done better
than we ever expected,” Kim said. “(Pho Duy) is a very traditional
Vietnamese restaurant compared to others in Fort Collins.”
Plan on spending between $6 and $8 on your entrees and $3 to $4
on an appetizer, which is suggested in order to acquire as many of
these unusual tastes as possible.
“We will continue to serve good food and good service,” Kim
said. “Then, hopefully, we will continue to do better than the day
before that and the month before that.”
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