We have visited these restaurants from time to time, but as it’s never the sort of food I crave nor is the place nice enough for a dinner out, we frequent them less often than you would imagine, given the location so close to my house. After getting takeout from A1 Pho, I don’t think this will change much. The food was good but not particularly compelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMike ordered the B\u00e1nh M\u00ec B\u00f2 Kho<\/strong> (beef stew with bread – $16). It came with a small loaf of French bread, similar to the one in the b\u00e1nh m\u00ec sandwich below. He enjoyed the stew very much. He thought the broth was rich and tasty. The beef was tender and fatty, though you expect that from stew meat. The portion was very generous and he was quite happy with the dish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had the B\u00e1nh M\u00ec B\u00f2<\/strong> (beef sandwich, $9). The flavor of the beef was good, though it was a little overwhelmed by the vegetables. However, as is the problem with most b\u00e1nh m\u00ec sandwiches, the real problem is the bread to filling ratio: there was just too much bread. The bread itself, while very light, felt dry and wasn’t particularly tasty. I’m not sure I’d order this again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We also shared an order of Ch\u1ea3 Gi\u00f2<\/strong> (fried egg rolls, $9). These were OK, pretty average and unremarkable. Standard Vietnamese fare close to our house A1 Pho is the latest iteration of a series of Vietnamese restaurants that have occupied the same space on the corner of East 14th and Estabrook for the last decade and a half. The space, which hosted a video store when we first moved to town, is large, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,598],"tags":[28,62,590,300],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","category-san-leandro-eats","tag-reviews","tag-san-leandro","tag-takeout","tag-vietnamese","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/signal-2024-02-20-170540_005-e1710103338226.jpeg\")
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I had a Sinh T\u1ed1 D\u00e2u & Xo\u00e0i<\/strong> (strawberry and mango shake, $7). This was also tasty, but not compelling and I wouldn’t rush to order it again. It seemed a bit overpriced – but then again, everything is nowadays.
<\/p>\n\n\n\nA1 Pho<\/a><\/strong>\n2089 E 14th St #A\nSan Leandro, CA\n510-357-6888\nM-Su 10 AM - 8 PM<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"