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Our philosophy is simple, Made to love.

The familiarity of a pho shop brings me untold comfort. The way you can just reach out a hand, and a chopstick will be there. Reach out the other, and there’s some chilli. If you need to fix your hair you can count on a mirror wall close by.

This is not the case at Love Pho, and Esther and I found it a bit unnerving. For a start this place is new, under a year old, the deco is clean and thoughtful (if not a big green for my liking). Perhaps the most disturbing of all, the tea comes in a teapot rather than one of those thermos flasks.

My neurosis aside, you can tell that they love making pho at Love Pho. It was really, really great. It was warming and spicy, with perfectly thin slices of good quality beef. So, although my usual comforts were absent, I’m sure I’ll be back soon, for a bit more pho love.

They also have a website - www.lovepho.com.au

Love Pho - 181 Swan Street, Richmond - 03 9421 2200

Co Do - (03) 9421 2418 - 196 Victoria Street Richmond

Co Do is my new favorite place on Victoria Street. After missing my opportunity to have Bun Mam in St Albans the other day, I was determined to discover it when I was down on Victoria street recently. I found it in Co Do’s menu and stepped inside. The waiter made the point twice, that Bun Mam is very smelly. Well, what do you expect from a brew made of preserved salted fish.

It really was yummy, fishy and pungent! Rice noodles in a bowl of steamy, fishy, pungentness. I loaded it up with lettuce, bean sprouts and chilli. Floating in the broth was heap of sliced pork, some fish, squid and a prawn.

The noodles were similar to that of Bun Bo Hue. When I paid, the owner told me that his family was from Hue. Oh regrets, again. I should have had their chilli beef noodle soup. I’m going to start to have 2 bowls of soup per meal.