Quan’s Cafe

10 Reviews on “Quan’s Cafe”

• Barb Mcfetridge

  Gone downhill fast. Was good when I went last March 2015, but now it seems things are thrown together…full peanuts put on the top of lemon grass chicken so that’s all you taste. Stale oil soaked onion cakes and not worth the money!

  November 9, 2016, 10:53 pm

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• Noodles

  We chose this place after finding the one we wanted to go to closed. I had heard good things but I’m not sure what the draw is. Another disappointing under-seasoned stir-fry. I asked for spicy but, 2 dollars extra (hate, hate, hate that!). Used the siracha but still couldn’t come up with flavor. My companion had a tri-colour vermicelli bowl and the green onion cakes. The best part of the meal was apparently the green onion cakes but being on a limited diet, I couldn’t try them. It was way too expensive for what we ordered.Service: GoodQuality: PoorValue: Poor

  July 19, 2016, 1:00 am

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• FeMonkey

  I feel that most people who like this place haven’t had real pho before, as what they serve here is a far cry from the norm. The pho, as one other reviewer also noted, is devoid of many of the regular ingredients you expect to find in traditional pho. Firstly, the complimentary additions to the pho – beansprouts, lime, and basil, were as non-existent as the Hoisin sauce on the table. In fact, the only thing on the table was the tea, salt and pepper, and a watered down sriracha sauce in a squeeze bottle (to hide the viscosity and the crime). Secondly, the soup base was a wonton soup derivation, rather than the slow simmering beef pho broth. From the taste, I’m fairly certain they used their wonton soup base and mixed it with a tetrapack of Campbell’s beef broth. Also, since cilantro is not an ingredient used in wonton soup or beef broth, dont expect to find any in the soup here. The green onions, however, are plentiful. So MIA ingredients and soup aside, Ill talk about the rest. Firstly, the noodles that came in the pho were not a frozen ball, which is a plus. However, they were very starchy, indicating that perhaps the noodles were just boiled in the broth, rather than boiled separately and washed. To their credit, the meat was fairly tender, but some of the darker pieces (brisket? flank? old bacon?) had the flavor of old meat, not enough to cause instant diarrhea but more of the slow poison type, which hits you halfway through your drive home with no gas station in sight. Prices, were a bit more expensive than the usual pho restaurants, even taking into account the non-Chinatown ones. However, it is still within the standard pho pricing in the city ($12.25 for the deluxe, $10.50 for most other pho). The pho portion sizes were pretty decent, but maybe it was all the runoff noodle starch filling me up. My friend ordered the deep friend wontons ($8.95), and it came with eight piecesso if you want good bang for your buck stay away from this. The tea was probably the best thing here. It was some kind of washed out pu-erh tea. There were no tea leaves/dregs in the pot either, so it was quite watered down. The taste was a bit pu-erh (hah), but not horrible.Owners/workers here seemed generally friendly so I have no complaints about that. I understand that people may enjoy this place because of the location and proximity, but I encourage these same people to go explore Edmonton and taste the pho in other places and then compare it to here. In summary, I found this place to be awPHO and cant see myself returning. There are many other lower price and better quality options in the city which serve actual pho, not some expensive take on instant noodles.

  July 13, 2016, 12:26 am

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