This small chain of restaurants in San Jose is a bit of an odd one. They serve Southeast Asian food, but vegetarian. And they don't make that vegetarian label very obvious either, as the items on the menu just freely say things like "shrimp," "chicken," and "fish" without any qualifiers in front of them. True, the first page of the menu says "vegetarian," but only in small print, and I've heard of folks who left here frustrated after realizing that what they ate was really just tofu.
Still, I had a better-than-expected experience with vegan phở at Loving Hut last year, so I figured that maybe this place would be as good. Unfortunately, it wasn't. A lot of it tasted like processed sauces, and some of the dishes that we got were slightly sweet too, perhaps because they also refused to use MSG in anything. Now, there was a crispy chow fun that was kinda interesting, but it came with a bunch of crudely cut and tasteless cabbage on top. I left here stuffed but unsatisfied.
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