“Pho is one of the fastest of fast foods on earth. At a good shop, you can be seated, be served, eat, pay, and be gone in 15 minutes, with barely time to breathe. For an unlucky customer at Pho Cyclo, that basic interaction might take, oh, I don’t know . . . let’s say an hour and 44 minutes, including the nearly 10 minutes he had to sit staring at his rapidly cooling bowl of pho tai bo vien, waiting for someone to bring him something to eat it with, and seriously considering just picking up the whole bowl in his hands and drinking it.” Read the entirety of Jason Sheehan’s review of Pho Cyclo.Photos by Joshua Huston.Published on November 18, 2010

Pho – Beef Noodle Soup

Com Dac Biet (Thit, Nem, Tom) Combination of charbroiled pork, charbroiled meatball & grilled shrimp

Bun Cyclo (Thit, Tom, Nem, Chao Tom) Cyclo rice noodle combination with pork, shrimp, meatball, and shrimp cake

A bit of everything

This must be a cyclo

Now that’s some noodles!

Putting the pieces of pho together