Huong Lan Restaurant - Honolulu

Portions are small for what you pay for. Usually pho comes with a decent amount of greens to add in your broth, did not expect to get the minimal. Generally dislike posting negative reviews, hoping this gets them to give at least a little more veggies to people.

We always keep coming back to this spot because it just hits home every time. We eat here at least twice a month. I'm telling you this is the spot.

One of the best place in town for pho! It's conveniently connected to the parking structure you just gotta take the elevator down! It's a small family business, everyone working is so friendly and welcoming.

Some YouTuber hyped this pho spot up, apparently, hence the reason for this visit. The pho restaurant is located within the Chinatown Cultural Plaza, which really functions as a mall. If you head towards Maunakea St, you 'll find the restaurant located inside near the glass doors bordering said street. The pho bowls come in three different sizes and prices medium $10.99), large $12.99), and x large $14.99). In the medium bowl, the meat portion was on the small side, but the rare beef and meatballs were tasty enough. The broth was mild in taste and aroma; a little on the safe side and maybe too clean. The eggrolls were crunchy and a few pieces with ample filling were included for $10.99. Vietnamese food isn 't exactly common place in Hawaii therefore I can imagine this being the it spot with flavors as close to or as near as possible to the traditional.

I got diarrhea after eating at this restaurant. I was coming here to carb up for my run race the next day, but the unclean food upset my GI tract, in turn, messed up my race. I wish I could give it better rating, but there is nothing fantastic about restaurant like most the reviews stated. Overall, the food tasted ok, but the food is not clean, the Pho was tasteless, the steak in the pho is tough. The restaurent itself is not clean, we can see the red hot sauce sprayed on the curtain blinds, the staff could easily wipe them off, but they didn't seem to have any notion of cleanliness. Shrinkflation: the food portions are small, and the price is high. Other than the Pho, we ordered a few other dishes 1 the Stir fried tofu- it tasted good, 2 the chicken rice dish- it tasted good, 3 the lemonades- it tasted fresh and sweet 4 the French ice coffee- it had a strong deep taste, as expected. 5, the fried spring rolls- why so cheap with the lettuce? They gave us 3 lettuce leaves were teared in half and 2 spritz of mint leaves. 6, now the Pho, I got #12 medium size with steak, tendon and beef balls. The soup was clear and there were a tiny portion of rice noodles on the bottom, but all the rave about this Pho, were overrated. The atmosphere of the restaurant was not great, weird layout with sliding doors cutting the place in half, and unclean. This restaurant was not better than our usual Pho place, which is Pho #1 for several reasons: 1. The food is not clean, it gave me diarrhea which Pho #1 never did. 2. The portions are very small, smaller than Pho#1, and they ended up costing the same. It was a disappointment. Needless to say, we will not come back.