Is Chinatown's Pho Pasteur still there? Other good Pho nearby?

[Coast]

Last minute help needed before a movie at Boston COmmon

[peregrine]

I found this for someone else, so I'll link it here as well: Beef Seven Ways - description
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispa...

[peregrine]

to limster - re Seven Courses of Beef

I'll try to reconstruct this as best I can:

part one is three courses, one at a time - marinated/raw; fry in butter at your table; cook in broth at your table - served with a stack of rice papers, a bowl of hot water to soften them, and a large platter of assorted veggies - lettuce, shredded carrots, etc, and fine noodles so you make your own rolls. There are some dipping sauces, too.

Then they bring out three courses on a platter, prepared in the kitchen: meatballs, kebabs, and rolled slices of beef with a vegetable in the middle.

The last course is soup. This may not be exact. The beef slices are about the size that you'd get in a bowl of pho, so it's a generous amount of meat for the whole meal, but there's lots more than just beef.

It's a lot of fun, and a bargain for two @$30.

Give yourself plenty of time to play with your food!

[limster]

Thank you very much! I'll definitely give them a shot one of these days when I have backup.

[limster]

Recently had some bo bun hue (on the wall in English) at Xinh Xinh, essentially a Hue-style pho-like noodle dish -- the broth tastes like their basic pho broth with the addition of lemongrass, chilli and lots of scallions. Thick slices of fat-veined beef; half circles of a firm Vietnamese herby/spicy pork "pate" and a chunk of fatty pork knuckle with skin (too soft and chewy; should have a dense texture). Not bad.

[peregrine]

Pho Hoa, just around the corner from Pasteur, is excellent, and has a full V-N menu.

As far as I know, they're the only place in Chinatown that serves Seven Courses of Beef, a banquet for 2 for $30. This is a real treat if you have plenty of time to enjoy all the different preparations.

[limster]

Love to hear more about their 7 courses of beef -- would be very grateful if you could detail the courses. Thanks!

[Luther]

However, I find their pho vastly inferior to most places, especially Pho Pasteur.

[Luther]

It's totally unrelated to the restaurants now known as Le's, and it has much better pho.

[Chicky]

But isnt the CHITO location a different owner?

[Notorious EMDB]

I ate there Saturday night. Very good, very crowded, very fast, very cheap. : )

[lissy]

I just walked by there the other day and it is there.