Pho Rex

My boyfriend got the worst food poisoning I’ve ever witnessed from the Phở here. He was out for two full days, non-​stop vomiting for almost 8 hours. So yeah… there’s that.

This place is really great! I’ve tried their fried rice, congee and phở and all were amazing!

I love to eat Phở, this place is nothing to get crazy about. The broth was not flavourful it tasted more like msg, the noodles where broken :(, I was in a rush and this was the closest place. I dont think i will go back. It is ok if u don’t have any other options.

I’ve been here for lunch a couple of times. The food is good for the price. They serve more than Phở, many options to choose from including some Thai dishes. Not the best/​most authentic Vietnamese food I’ve had, but likely the only option in Koreatown.
Tip: They are closed on Tuesdays!

The worse green curry I’ve ever tasted! Its Watery!!!
Wasnt satisfied at all.
Though Tom yum soup was good and the Server is nice.

Tried the phở noodle, pad thai and congee. They were decent. Loved their pad thai. The noodle soup didn’t had a richer taste than I expected.

Ordered rare beef phở but the beef came cooked well done. Imperial roll was weird and mushy/​pasty? Also ordered three meals and they only sent us hot sauce for one and no cutlery. One plus was the broth for the phở — more flavourful than many other places.

Since moved to Toronto, I tried many restaurant and had good and bad experience. This was way beyond horrible… I wish I can wipe out my memory and buy dinner from Subway… Padthai was water down ketchup with melting noodle… Green curry was smell like dirty water after wiping floor… Now I am on the bed with wish not to have sick tonight…

This place was much better than expected. It’s hard to get non-​Korean food in Korea Town. Which I GUESS makes sense.
So the décor leaves a lot to be desired, but it’s inexpensive, the staff are friendly, and it’s quick!
I had the pad thai lunch special — $ 9.95 — came with tom yum soup, spring roll, mango salad, and chicken pad thai. It was delish.
The Good:
1. Inexpensive.
2. Friendly.
3. Fast.
The Bad:
1. Décor.
Recommended for a quick lunch

The waitress who greeted me was very friendly and smiley. She remained attentive throughout the whole meal.
Ordered the Pad Thai dinner combo which was a pretty good price at $ 11.50. I hadn’t had pad thai in a while and thought I’d give it a try despite this being a Phở place.
The mango salad, tom yum soup and spring roll came first really fast. The size may be small to some people but for me it was perfect just to get a little taste of everything and not get full before the entrée arrived. Soup was spicy and flavorful with fresh mushrooms thrown in. I really enjoyed that. Mango salad was refreshing but nothing special to write home about. Spring roll was my least favourite. I didn’t like the pork filling that much.
Pad thai was average. Saucy and on the sweet side if you like your pad thais sweet. Came with a side of raw sprouts. Chicken was kind of dry but the tofu in the noodles I really liked!

Ordered the rare beef phở, strawberry shake and beef with rice and egg. Instead I got a mango shake, and the phở came with wilted basil, small noodles, and meh broth. It was edible, but not much more than that. I won’t go hungry, but I won’t order again! Not worth the money..

Why isn’t there a zero star option. The noodles were over cooked, the spring rolls taste like garbage and above all, the shrimp was literally rotten. I added a photo of the rotten shrimp, hopefully it doesn’t get taken down.

For the money, this place is great. However, some dishes are done better than others. That said, if you stick with the more common dishes you’ll be please with the portions, quality and value. There’s higher quality places around but for the money you can’t wrong.

Located in Koreatown and surprisingly the phở here is pretty decent. I like how they offer the kid’s size phở, which is perfect for me. They actually give you a lot of noodles for a kid’s size and they don’t cheap out on meatballs either like other places would.
The vegetarian springs are actually good too.

After all the junk I’ve been eating lately, plus the summer heat, I just knew what I was craving. Vietnamese vermicelli!
However, I was slightly taken aback by the chicken + spring roll vermicelli I ordered. Being accustomed to having my vermicelli’s bowl cool and filled with veggies, I was definitely disappointed when met with the opposite. Still, the tender chicken and crispy spring roll did make up for it.
Probs gonna come back to try their Phở and make a better assessment of this place.

All the stir fry and rice dishes I order here r Delish! Calamari and the appetizers too. Fresh shakes. The phở soup not so much. It’s pretty cheap price wise. Would reccomend for all food except phở which is funny bc of their name. Maybe just change name lol. The lunchtime pad Thai special is amazing. Brought lots of friends here and dates and it’s always been great.

One of the rare Vietnamese phở in the area. Average, not more… Several menu items are really poorly executed including shakes.
Spoons are washed with bleach and as they are in plastic they taste like bleach!

Their phở was just meh. The soup which for me is the most important part of phở was just editable. Not rich, not tasty, not good. We also ordered their Phoenix Roll which was «tiger shirmp» wrapped with same beef we had in our phở (do not recommend). The beef was sliced too thick so when it soaked in the hot soup for too long it became well done, hard to eat, no flavour tbh. The only good thing about the restaurant was their fresh fruit drinks for $ 2.95! I got the jackfruit drink since I don’t normally eat tropical fruits at home. It was delicious! The waiter did tell me they use frozen jackfruits which was still very fresh. We ordered these 4 things, with tips in total came to $ 30 for 2 people.
Wouldn’t come back again for food but if I pass by I might come get their jackfruit drink that was worth.

Fairly nice phở place — we were surprised to find it in the middle of Koreatown though! We took a long (like 30 minutes) to think of what to order, but the waitress was very accommodating and tried giving us suggestions too. The waitress didn’t really speak English that well, but understood that I didn’t want any greens on top of my phở!
Food came relatively quickly, around 10 – 15 minutes. My friend’s gyozas looked pretty tasty! Their lime, bean sprounts, and mint leaves came on a separate dish, which was a nice touch so that you could put in however much you wanted.
I ordered a kid’s size chicken phở, which I was barely able to finish for a lunch. Be careful — that kid’s size is deceiving: it is pretty big and definitely enough for a lunch, but with relatively little chicken! In our table, we ordered a beef phở and another spicy soup that was a medium, although, she seemed to have the same amount of beef/​noodles as us, just more soup! The kid’s size was about $ 5 –6, so definitely a good deal!
All in all, a nice phở place with solid food for what you pay!

If there’s an option to give 0 star, i totally would. Here is a summary of our experience:
1. We waited for our two dishes for almost half an hour. The restaurant wasn’t even busy, there were just 3 tables at that time and one was already served. We asked the waitress to check our orders and of course she came back and told us that «it’s coming». Our food didn’t come until 10 mins after.
2. The food was not tasty at all. We ordered one beef phở and one spicy beef noodle soup. The two dishes taste exactly the same except the spicy beef noodle is a little bit saltier.
Overall, this is the worst phở restaurant we’ve ever been in Toronto. We will not go back ever again and we highly don’t recommend this place to anybody.