500 University Ave W
Visited July 5, 2008
Trieu Chau, one of the most visible Vietnamese restaurants with its attention getting store front, packed in the Vietnamese customers. The food arrived at the surrounding tables drool inducing good, and the customers buried their faces in the food with little conversation.
As usual I ordered Pho ($5.50). The bowl appeared invitingly good however one sip of proved you can’t just a dish by its looks. It had an overpowering anise flavor, either intentional or the cook dumped in a bucket and never bothered to taste it. Yuck. The noodle was the right size, the meats were fairly tender, but the tendons were tiny bits of tough chewy under-cooked tissue.
The cha gio/egg roll ($3.25) also looked promising and the skin was great but the inside was meatless airy pasty filling heavy on carrots and ground into a pasty mystery with an unappealing texture.
Grilled pork rice dish ($5.95, S3?) with a fried egg. This was an average nondescript dish. Unworthy.
House specialties – a heavy cellophane style noodle with shrimp, squid, and scallops ($5.95, S9?). The soup despite being chili oil red was quite mild. This soup dish was the most satisfying of all the foods tried.
Overall, the food tasted as if prepared by a below average home cook. It was a disappointment and maybe the first Vietnamese restaurant I can't recommend nor likely to return to.
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