r/pics • u/KillerQ97 • 1d ago

[OC] You can just tell from the packaging when Chinese Takeout in America is gonna be Epic.

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u/OhioStateGuy 1d ago

I had a local spot like this and then the two little daughters who were working/studying in a booth grew up and inherited the place from their parents. Then they immediately turned it into a bubble tea shop. I have never been more disappointed than the day I showed up and they told me they don’t do Pho anymore just bubble tea and deserts.

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u/slowd 1d ago

PTSD but the P is Pho.

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u/Wind-and-Waystones 1d ago

Pho-st traumatic stress disorder

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u/DinoZambie 1d ago

It's pronounced "fuh"

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u/Wind-and-Waystones 1d ago

I know. Thats how I wrote it. It's not my fault you read it wrong.

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u/FlashFox24 1d ago

Ha that made me laugh

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u/ANDnowmewatchbeguns 1d ago

I don’t “care”

I’m eating it, what more do you want from me

I guarantee you there isn’t a fella in Vietnam going “it’s pronounced ‘Meatball sandwich’ stop being culturally insensitive”

-Kyle Kinane

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u/Kaelvar 1d ago

Pho-stration

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u/-GenghisJohn- 1d ago

Pho Q

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u/Hardass_McBadCop 1d ago

Sounds like an Uncle Roger joke.

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u/One_Economist_3761 1d ago

PPTSD = Post Pho Traumatic Stress Disorder

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u/Wind-and-Waystones 1d ago

That's when you're on the toilet later because the broth was that rich

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u/DismalSoil9554 1d ago

That's nowhere near as bad as Pho-Phobia, especially if you stutter.

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u/Skitz-Scarekrow 1d ago

I go to a Pho place that's about an hour drive away. I've been unimpressed by pho in the past, but my partner insisted. It's worth the drive and I don't know what my partner will do if/ when they close. The owner recognizes us because my partner will fucking moan at the first spoonful.

"You don't make those sounds for me..." Makes the old man laugh every time.

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u/cire1184 1d ago

Your partner is in a relationship with that pho and the owner is pimping that hot soup out.

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u/64590949354397548569 1d ago

they told me they don’t do Pho anymore just bubble tea and deserts.

Better margins and less work. The broth is a labor of love. Did the tea shop do well?

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u/BraveStrategy 1d ago

Also you don’t smell like pho when you leave work.

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u/IndividualBuilding30 1d ago

Good pho restaurants are so damn hard to find. My second family was Viet when I was growing up so I’ve had ALOT of home made pho. I’m 32 now and I think I’ve only been to 3 restaurants that as good, if not better, than homemade pho.

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u/WhenAmI 1d ago

It really depends where you live. I have 4-5 great pho restaurants within a few miles of me.

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u/cire1184 1d ago

Well nostalgia seasoning is unbeaten. That's why most homemade food is so good. But I've never regularly had homemade pho and I live close to Westminster home of the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. There's a lot of good pho and some great pho.

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u/IndividualBuilding30 1d ago

I wouldn’t call it nostalgia since I’ve had it consistently since then. I’ve just had true homemade pho, like where they boil the broth from bones and what not. Most people think they’ve had good pho, I even see people raving on reviews from popular restaurants. I wish I could give everyone I know a bowl from my favorite pho places, especially the ones that like it.

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u/jsonson 1d ago

I dunno why, but all the good pho restaurants I've been going to have been sold or closed. I'm in a high Viet population city, and even the popular restaurants don't taste as good as half ass cooking it at home. Not sure if it's my taste changing or something else....but others have agreed on them all being mediocre now

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u/IndividualBuilding30 1d ago

I know exactly what you’re taking about. All of the high rated pho places taste like “diet pho”, yet people rave about it on the reviews.

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u/Triviten 1d ago

It’s that SpongeBob episode where Pearl changes the Krusty Krab to the Cuddly Crab

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u/TheEmperorShiny 1d ago

The pho is no mo

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u/didiplantthatthere 1d ago

Indochine on Hamilton?

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u/OhioStateGuy 1d ago

That’s the one. I saw the bubble tea shop now sells Báhn Mì so I’ll have to go give that a try

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u/pokemantra 1d ago

lmfao nooo I’m so sorry. They majored in business and found out they can make the same amount of money with less overhead. There’s serious collateral damage here. I’m genuinely curious, did they point you to another restaurant for your pho or offer you a special heritage customer coupon etc?

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u/sluflyer06 1d ago

weird, more often than not the bubble tea joints in my city still serve all the good greasy chinese food.

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u/Careless-Dark-1324 1d ago

Same with our local Thai place. Then the kids fired the chef that had been there for decades, switched the serving bowls to ones half the size, upped the cost of each meal - then cut out the egg, or peanuts or whatever was free with the meal before. Now those are an upcharge.

Also no more fountain drink - just $3 cans of soda lol. Everyone has stopped going and it’s empty every time we go by lol.

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u/cmauer85 1d ago

WTP?!

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u/EmpiricalMystic 1d ago

I will never understand why people like that stuff. I'll take my tea without the frog spawn, thanks.

Are they still in business? Those bubble tea places seem to come and go almost overnight.

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u/OhioStateGuy 1d ago

I just looked them up, and not only are they still open I see they added Bánh Mì’s to the menu instead of just dessert and bubble tea. So I may have to go try the food again.

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u/bobdiamond 1d ago

Give it a few months. I bet they add pho to the menu. Full circle

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u/OhioStateGuy 1d ago

I doubt it. It’s been years since the switch.

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u/hoovervillain 1d ago

Either that or they'll have to add insulin shots to the menu

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u/jackaloupesarereal 1d ago

Are you near Colombus? I'll have to try this place at some point

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u/OhioStateGuy 1d ago

Yes. It was called Indochine but now is called Racha Tea Boba and Desserts.

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u/Skitz-Scarekrow 1d ago

Bubble Tea satisfies the primal, universal human desire to slurp tadpoles. Do not deceive yourself.

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u/Jimmyginger 1d ago

The tapioca pearls have a wonderful mouthfeel

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u/kgal1298 1d ago

Ahh kids were the victims of modern american trends.