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Kim Po Vietnamese Restaurant
Category: Restaurants Vietnamese Vietnamese [Edit]
58 Redlea AveScarborough, ON M1V 4S3
Neighbourhood: Scarborough
(416) 321-2255
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Average
8 reviews for Kim Po Vietnamese Restaurant
8 reviews in English
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Review from Calvin S.
Markham, ON
1/25/2011
I really wonder why this place as a Conditional Pass...oh well.
The person below me summed it quite well. Ghetto place, location sucking, and pho is meh. However, as I keep saying, a true Vietnamese restaurant needs to be more diverse, not just concentrating on Pho. Bring on the 5 stars.
Beef brisket in tomato soup. Spicy beef vermicelli. Fukien style noodles. These are the three noodle soup kings I highly recommend anyone to order. The taste is out of this world. Literally. Top it off with either a iced lemon tea or a vietnam iced coffee. Then you'll have yourself the dinner of your lives. -
Review from Frank L.
Toronto, ON
1/19/2012
The first time when I visited this restaurant, it is so good. Not too many people but the Pho soup is clear and not much MSG and the beef is tender and of good quality.
However the last time when I visited I am so much disappointed that I delisted it from my dining out list. The Pho special soup has MSG that makes me very thirsty. There is no tea or water given. You can either order a drink or drink the soup. The beef slices on the Pho I have never had such tough beef in a Pho soup before in any Pho restaurants. It is not just too well done, usually the beef slices should be medium rare but the quality of the beef is not good at all.
I will not come back to this location. -
Review from Karen S.
6/27/2011
Not impressed. We came during the heat of the Sunday lunch hour and had to wait a little for our group of six. Not a huge deal and to be expected. Service though was spotty at best. First 2 teas came... then we had to ask twice more for tea for the rest of us. Between the 6 of us, we had pho, and vermicelli in varying sizes with huge gaps in between when they all arrived. The shakes were appropriately thick. However, at least one of them arrived when we were already finished the food.
There was a weird taste to the meat in my pho - not fresh tasting at all - beefy, but in all the wrong ways. There were some weird looking tendons that just looked gross. I had a small but didn't end up finishing it like I usually do and felt a bit nauseous towards the end. *shudder* I would not go back to this little house of a restaurant. -
Review from WaYnE c.
Maple, ON
10/29/2010 2 photos
As an after-dinner snack, I decided to finally go to Kim Po as I keep hearing that Pho is a typical street vendor snack in Vietnam so I will treat it as such and go according to that intent.
As I walked inside an hour prior to closing time, there were a couple of tables occupied and one was actually the waitresses having their meal while one of them stood, held a Menu, looked at me while I looked back. It was our MOMENT, never forget that. 2.5 *Star*
As I chose a seat, I looked at the Menu still trying to figure out which Language I should request my order as she never spoke still. They spoke Vietnamese amongst themselves, unfortunately I'm not fluent except for Pho, Bun, Ca, or Cha.
House Special Pho($6.99/Large) was my snack of choice as if I chose small, I should of went home and drank water instead. I decided to order in English and the elder waitress nodded, then in 5 seconds she plated a bowl in front of me. Now that is SERVICE!
She came back in another 1 minute and took it away to the next table as it was their House Special Vermicelli instead. She then spoke Cantonese to say sorry to me as I was about to dig in. She forget that I was the one that ordered Pho from her just seconds ago??
Another minute after my Pho arrives in Large format. As reviewed before, the Pho had good stock while Meat quantity and quality I'm satisfied with UNTIL I had the TENDON. That Ghost White Mushy Tendon is just not something I would come back for, ever.
SKIP the Tendon and get used to the weird Service, then you'll have an average meal.Listed in: 2.5 **Stars**, Va Va Viet
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Review from esthir t.
North York, ON
9/22/2011
It's my 2nd time going to this place. I went in yesterday around 6:30pm. Place was serving 4 tables including ours. Food was good. I ordered a Grilled Chicken Mon with Spring Roll and that cost $6.75. It's a good and cheap dinner, very filling.
Suggested area of improvement? Cleanliness. It's not dirty in there like you're sitting in filth but at least don't open all doors and let the flies be chilling there near your head while you're eating. It was raining yesterday, so it was extra humid and extra flies.
I just found out they have a few other franchise places, so I'll def check those out. -
Review from Jay W.
Markham, ON
12/11/2010 2 photos
OK so this place is kinda ghetto, the location sucks, and the pho here isn't anything to write home about, so what's up with the 4 stars? Well... the secret is to NOT order the pho!
My go to order at every other pho restaurant is the house special, which is basically the kitchen sink pho that has everything dumped into it. At Kim Po, you need to order the Fukien style noodles in soup. That's right, I said order the Fukien noodles!
It comes with both yellow round egg noodles and vermicelli in a very light broth scented with Thai basil, coriander, and green onion. It's nothing earth shattering, but it's a nice break from the usual pho dac biet (house special pho) at a pho restaurant actually run by Vietnamnese people! -
Review from Stephen C.
Scarborough, ON
5/9/2010
A Pho restaurant inside a house? Yep. thats what it is basically.
There was a Toronto Health sign with Conditional Pass.. but we wanted to try it anyways since crowds never lie right?
The Pho was pretty good, the place is pretty crowded, and its a definitely unique place. Just be careful going down the stairs to the washroom. The stairs are very very slippery.. if you fall.. you're going to get a big hurt. -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
2/12/2010 10 photos
This is another example that even restaurants have the same name under the same franchise in the same city, the quality of the food can be quite different!
This location of Kim Po restaurant is right across Market Village tucked in behind some construction site.
The restaurant is small. The tables are tucked closely together. And it can be quite chilly from the drift outside in winter if you sit in the middle of the restaurant.
This place is quite busy in the afternoon since there are constantly people coming in but luckily people are leaving quickly too since the services is fast and you really can finish your meal in less than 15/20 minutes!
Since there is no lunch specials so I order the Special House Pho Large ($6.95). Why I want to order a large? since they only has 3 sizes S/L/XL, and since with my last few outing I am always hungry after eating my medium Pho..I just want to be satisfy...not to have that empty feeling of "I am still hungry"!
When my Pho arrived, yes this Pho size Large is a Large. There are tons of meat, tons of noodles and I barely finished it! (I am FULL! I am HAPPY!) The broth is really clear, just prefect tasting, not too salty, rich in flavour and did not make me thirsty after I finished eating and drinking it! The noodles though is dried but is cooked prefectly! The meat are good cut, though is not as lean but has the balance of fat and lean in it and it makes the meat all so tender.
I also has an iced vietnamese coffee with condensed milk. I just drank that as a dessert... oh so yummy, oh so strong!
There are also tons of condiments on the table for you to use.
There are no cheesy or loud music/songs of any languages, just the sound of people making noises when they eating their noodles..
I want to be back and try out other noodles with spicy broth and the wide selections of noodles soup!
Cash Only!
(I am still full 2 hours after eating my Pho!)
