Pho Miu
“Don't let the blue mall deter you away from the best Pho we've had in bergen county!”
“We wrapped up the meal with a mouth watering fried bananas and coconut ice cream for dessert.”
“We started with summer roll, fish sauce fried chicken wings and vietnamese crepe.”
Pho Miu
Takes Reservations: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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I was very happy to see a Vietnamese spot open up so close to my house. The place is nice and the employees are very friendly. We started off with the papaya salad and it was excellent. Very light, crunchy, with fresh mint that added a nice sweetness. I got pho with brisket. The rice noodles were cooked perfectly, the brisket was delicious, and most importantly the broth was very good and had a great meaty profile to it. I will be back to try the bah mi sandwich.
I was skeptical when I heard a Vietnamese spot was opening in Washington Township. The restaurant is small and casual, and the service was very friendly and easy to communicate with. But I was still skeptical when I saw the price for their special pho. Turns out, their special pho actually has a pork broth base and other ingredients.
I stuck with my usual beef combo pho, which was of average price. The combo came with brisket, eye round, tendon, and beef balls. All meats were cooked correctly, and the broth was rich and flavorful. I could have done without the beef balls though. They were not very good.
3.5 stars overall, I'll round up to 4 since the service was good and they are one of the few options for pho in the area.
I hadn't had Pho in over a year, since moving from Boston! I was really happy to see this place close by and read the good reviews. I'm happy to say the good reviews are right. It was tasty! I had the pork spring rolls which are served with peanut sauce and then the Pho with brisket. The generous steaming hot Pho was delicious, but the brisket was pretty fatty. I don't remember the meat being fatty in previous Pho, so I'm not sure why that was. I just picked it off. Otherwise it was great. The hot jasmine tea was nice too and they have a selection of bubble tea. Give this place a try!
One of the newly opened Vietnamese places. It seems very small from the outside but they have 8 tables for 4, and 5 tables for 2. Looks more spacey inside.
We ordered fish sauce chicken wings, spring rolls, meatball pho and caramelized shrimp cooked in clay pot. Our meal was delicious. Pho was a little bit disappointing for our taste but rest of our meal that we ordered were all satisfying.
Our problem was service. When we visited only 2 tables were occupied with one server. She didn't give us any water until we asked after we finished appetizer. She didn't say sorry, just left water on our table.
When our main meal was served, we were the only one there. Server was just standing in the counter. Restaurant was quiet. Our table was packed with empty plates( appetizer plates, sharing dishes etc). We had to clean and pile up the dishes on the side to have our main meal. Our server was just looking at us. I don't know if she knows what service supposed to be. She seemed very young and She just didn't seem interested to be working. Restaurant wasn't busy, phone wasn't ringing. It was just quiet restaurant. But still service was bad.
Terrible service isn't helpful for the business even though they serve tasty food.
I've only ate Vietnamese food once before and this time I confirmed that I absolutely love it! This place was very cute, clean & comfy, our waitress was so nice especially since we came in 30 minutes before closing, they were very helpful with helping us pick what to eat and explaining what each and everything was even though it pretty much says it on the menu. The food was freshly made and extremely good.
They have two bathrooms one for men and women. Women's bathroom very clean and had some cute decorations. This restaurant also has a parking lot right in front which is great you don't have to worry about parking.
They also take credit cards but it's $20 minimum. Will definitely come back here soon !
On a wet, windy and chilly evening in suburban Joysee — hot soup and byo wine felt right. I made an instinctive move towards Wasabi — Riesling in hand — craving dashi with soba — and at the last minute decided to go pho instead. Should have stuck with my instincts.
The small menu at this Vietnamese soup and sandwich joint makes ordering easy — you can have noodles with your soup or soup with your noodles — and a pork sandwich (or wings) besides, if you must.
We stuck with rice noodles.
The pho broth here is not as rich as the best I've had, plenty of broth but they sure do skimp on the portions of everything else. I ordered extra noodles (at $5) which extended the soup into a meal. Their stir fry is not as greasy as others we've tried, but our pork version with rice noodles (#31) was relatively flavorless — requiring plenty of adjustment with red pepper and soy based condiments on the table.
The best I can say about the starters is that they were serviceable.
Summer shrimp rolls with peanut sauce were packed with fresh shiso leaf imparting a pleasant basil-like flavor and crisp texture — but the shrimp itself was tasteless and limp — as if frozen and thawed once too many times. The peanut sauce lacked depth of flavor — this needed more acidity and heat to balance the rich/sweet peanut butter and complement the relative blandness of the rolls.
The green papaya salad with pork was better, good acidity from the lime, savory from fish sauce, and plenty of textural interest from the shredded veggies and peanuts.
We drank our wine from the offered brandy glasses (I wish we had brought some cognac) and enjoyed our alone time listening to 1960's Parisian cafe music (the place was empty on a Wednesday night).
Note to self: Next time, no need to drive all this way for a bowl of soup, and if we do, bring brandy.
The service is extremely friendly and will do everything to make you feel welcome. The food is very authentic and tasty.
We have been here already three times and have tried pretty much most of the dishes. The pho is very good, the broth is light and full of flavor.
The Vietnamese sandwich was also very delicious on fresh french baguette. We also tried the chicken wings, plain and with the fish sauce. Love the one with fish sauce adding a salty flavor that us way better than the plain.
We also tried the sugar cane wrapped shrimp which was also very good. The only reason I didn't give this restaurant 5 stars is because they didn't serve the traditional pork chop dish with crab cake.
We will visit often as we just enjoy talking with the owner which took photos of the food that are hanging on the walls. Very talented, friendly and successful.
I was so excited to come here, especially after seeing it had such great reviews. I had high hopes that I had finally found my dream pho place: a tasty place just a few minutes down the road! Unfortunately, I was disappointed.
My boyfriend and I were both excited to come here, especially hangry me. It had been 10 hours since I had eaten anything and I was in need of food. While my hunger was quenched, I was left unsatisfied because everything was lacking flavor. We had the grilled lemongrass chicken wings, pork bahn mi (pork Vietnamese sandwich), and pho. The best dish was the chicken wings and the worst being the pho. The pho had the least flavor of all the dishes. I added so much hot sauce and hoisin sauce to give the broth any flavor because without it, the broth tasted like hot beef water… water with a slight smack of beef (any Arrested Development fans out there?).
I left sad and disappointed. Maybe I came on an off day? Regardless, I most likely wouldn't come here again.