pho tau bay

i am sure all of you have occasional cravings for certain types of food (and you don't have to be pregnant to experience this!). this can beset you at any point in time. well, lately i have been craving all things vietnamese and i don't even know why! my good friend cw and i have been planning to do acabramattacrawl since february of this year. yes! you read right, february! :-) we finally managed to make it work. no heat wave, no prearranged social engagement and most importantly no track work planned that weekend. yay! i was looking forward to satisfying my cravings! the plan was to eat through our hit list but share the meals so we didn't fill up too quickly. we started by having breakfast and pho was our choice. pho tau bay has reputedly the best pho in town. i don't recall having been here before and it was quite a tiny little restaurant. we got there before 10 am and was lucky enough not to have to wait for a table. as we sat down, a man came up to take our order but we were no

my family has been coming here since i could remember. this is one of the oldest original pho eateries incabramattaand i’d boldy dare say, it’s the best. broth is the real deal. rich and deep without being salty or oily. the flavour is like no other pho place. has a slightly more umami taste.
don’t ever change the recipe.

apparently this place was once awarded best pho incabramattaso my friend and i had to check it out.it has been one of our favourite pho places ever since!!!! the prices are cheap,$11 for a bowl of flavourfuĺ pho .what a bargain+!!!! a very generous amount of beef is given which is very filling.the onions and greens give the pho a great finishing touch to the beautiful broth and meat :)) highly recommend this pho place for hungry stomachs!!!

i have always wanted to visitcabramattaever since hearing about the great and authentic vietnamese food available there. hubby decided to drive me there after hearing my desire, bless his heart. since then we had been numerous times, each time bringing with us a guest from perth. a real asian experience we tell them. they ended up loving the food and atmosphere there too!

excellent pho. i grew up incabramattaand regularly return for the good food.

the flavour of the broth and quality of the meat is second to none and worth the hour plus journey.

not much more to say, excellent quality food.

so you’re looking for a destination for an intimate first date? how about the perfect diner to pop the question? or an escape for that date night without the kids? sorry to have to disappoint you, but pho tau bay isn’t exactly the venue for those occasions. pho tau bay is where you come for some of the best pho, not just in sydney or even australia, i am thinking this could be some of the best pho outside of vietnam. this little restaurant incabramattais all about that conveyor belt of soups and rice dishes. food is served fast, there’s very little pomp or sense of occasion. it’s noisy, but in a celebratory kind of way, but then the wholecabramattadining precinct is that way, especially on saturday morning. it’s a full on assault on the senses, and that’s the reason we love coming to the area.

pho tau bay is arguably one of the best places incabramattafor pho - delicious stock is what makes it pretty much perfect and they do the stock here really well. very fragrant and tasty.

good pho and bbh. after the heavily critical review below, felt like responding. i mean what's more likely to be fake - multiple contributors enjoying the pho, or a "diner from sydney" who happened to be down in sydney and heard ofcabramattasigning up to urbanspoon one day just to write a negative review? perhaps this person (like most vietnamese i know) think their mum's is the best and anything else not like it is not authentic. perhaps their mum's has so much msg nothing else can be tasted. perhaps their mum's is actually extremely good, but the odds would seem against it. in which case they should stay home and eat that one only.

i do happen to agree that sawtooth herb is a luxury you don't get given commonly. only in vietnam did i sometimes get it, and never in anywhere else i've tried (uk, germany, switzerland, melbourne, sydney) nor the several vietnamese families who have cooked it for me. but it isn't the tell of authenticity or not.

the pho here is good. i like my stock heavier flavoured, but my vietnamese dining partner liked it more like this slightly more subtle. bbh was very tasty too although could have used more chilli.
it might not be the best you've ever had (that's very subjective) but i think it's unlikely you'll be very disappointed.

did i go to the same place? some of the worst pho i had. i can't believe there are such rave reviews... i was down in sydney and heard aboutcabramattaas the vietnamese suburb, so though i'd go and see how good the pho there was... checked urbanspoon quickly and pho tau bay popped up as number one, so i went there with high expectations... i must add that i'm from vietnamese background and that my mum's pho is one of the best in the world as when she was younger, used to work in a famous pho restaurant back in vietnam...
ordered the pho dac biet (special)... and asked a simple question, which for me defines if the place is authentic or not: do you have ngo gai (culandro herb)... and the answer was no... that was a bad start...
then the pho... already i could see the lack of "generosity", not so much in the quantities... but there was only one type of herb in the plate and some soy sprouts...
i then i tried the pho itself... yuck.... first thing... the noodles where way overcooked and mushy... how hard can it be to make sure the noddle are cooked "al dente" when your special meal is pho... and everyone know bad noodles, kill a pho!
but hold on... that was not the worst.... the worst was that the broth was totally bland and tasteless... just dish washing water! meat was a bit on the "too greasy" side...
overall, that's one of the worst pho i had in australia... and i must say the quality of the phos downunder is pretty low, so, that's quite a statement...
even most of the pho i had in food courts in brisbane were so much better than this "pho for tourist" place!!!
i recommend the one in the queen street mall in brissy... it is a small one, but at least the noodles are firm and the broth tasty... and if you ask, they even give you ngo gai, which is one of the only place that does it!
i rarely write reviews... but this one was so bad and such a disappointment, i had to write something.... do real vietnamese really go and eat pho in that place??? wow... vietnamese standards have reached bottom then!
hopefully, it was just a very bad day for them... but i doubt it... and will definitely never ever go back there...
ha ha, the reality is so far from the review i read here, it almost looks like these reviews are from friends of the owner.....................

we left ptb with satisfied tummies – yes, even marty was happy (though that didn’t stop him from buying a pork roll on the way back to the train station later on).cabramattais a long way to travel for phở but i dare say that the trip is worth it if not for the delicious bowls of pho, then at least the colourful people you’ll meet along the way.

their pho is amazeballs!. nested in the end of the main shopping strip ofcabramattais this little gem. . one of my favourite places to have pho and has got to be one of sydney's best! worth the travel. love love love - so tasty!!

the amount of restaurants incabramattacan be a little mind boggling to some as everywhere you look you see a cornucopia of food, mainly asian of course. the first restaurant we sat down at was pho tau bay on john street. this place specializes in, you g