Rice Paper Pantry

Pretty nice food. I got the stewed beef with egg noodle. The soup tasted home-made and there was a good ratio of beef vs noodle vs soft carrots. The bean sprouts gave the rich broth a refresher...good flavour, strong star anise smell. Seating is like Sydney Food Courts where you just have to squish into whatever seat you can find, next to strangers.

I ordered beef pho jumbo size and received a normal size beef pho with lettuce instead of bean sprouts. When i asked why there was lettuce instead of bean sprouts he told me that they had no bean sprouts so decided to put lettuce instead. He didnt tell me this when i was ordering and just looked at me and didnt apologize. I normally love this place and get beef pho from here once a week but will not be coming back due to how rude the cook was. Extremely disappointed.

I can not understand why this place is underrated. The pho I had was amazing tasted authentic, cooked by a Vietnamese chef and not watered down or just made out of a packet like I’ve seen many times before. The jumbo bowl size is generous, plenty meat and noodle I just wish they had added some cartilage and more beef balls. The beef is freshly sliced, not frozen like many do. Otherwise the flavour is spot on and the price is very fair. I’ve been to another pho place on the coast; costed me about $20 for half of the quantity... I also checked the Banh mi and I was surprised with the baguette size. Most Vietnamese place charge a liver and offer half of the baguette. very happy.

I came during the lunch time rush. They staff were efficient and I ordered a couple of items. The bbq pork roll was yummy. Heaps of meat, herbs, chilli and crispy bun for $5! The roast pork noodle salad was a let down though - just wasn’t tasty and the pork skin wasn’t crispy. I asked for a plastic bag because my hands were clearly full and I had just bought a couple of items from them. They wanted to charge me 10c but hesitated and eventually didn’t. I offered to pay but they said next time they’ll charge. They said I should carry a bag with me (trying to sound all righteous). I don’t like it when they make a big deal about it. If you’re so environmentally conscious, stop serving things in plastic. If Foodora gets a bag to carry food, why can’t you give your own customer a bag if they’re buying multiple items?!

Told myself never to try any Vietnamese shops that serve too many kinds of soup, I somehow walked into this place. Probably I needed a hot bowl of soup during a lunch rush, and Pho just automatically popped up in my head. Pho was a disappointment. Though I am fan of light broth, the broth here was too light and watered-down. Definitely not the type of Vietnamese Pho I can be proud of.

Cold, incorrect meal with a long wait time. Ordered the combination meal and didn’t get any meat on it, my friend went back to get meat and it tasted old. Not bad as in rotten, just like... leftovers that you’re not too keen on having. Didn’t get food poisoning, if you’re worried about that lol. Even though we ordered the same thing at the same time, they didn’t make it at the same time and I had to wait another 7 or so minutes. Spring rolls were good. Probably would have been fine (not great) if it was hot. The issue is probably just being understaffed. It was the lunch rush and only two people were there working. Lady at the front was very kind, helpful, and understanding when we went back to correct our order.