(This venue is closed.) "Do you have bean sprouts?"
"No."
—Overheard at the counter of this Hanoi-style restaurant, where the noodle soup disdains Southern Vietnamese decoration. Shown: phở bò tái, raw beef pho; nem rán, pork spring rolls; cà phê sữa, hot condensed-milk coffee, brewed by the cupful. ("Very strong," I was cautioned. Exactly, was my thought.)
H/T Jared Cohee and Nigel Sielegar
Just Phở
252 West 31st St. (Seventh-Eighth Aves.), Manhattan
917-261-7494
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