Pho Ga Hai Van

Came here for a late lunch ~1:30 PM and the place was packed, even on a week day! We put our names down at the door for a table and waited around 15 minutes to be seated. It was a casual place with standout Pho Ga! Large bowls with flavorful & clean broth. I loved that the orders of chicken came on plates separate from the pho itself. I also loved the wide pho noodles. My husband tried their Bo Luc Lac, which was also solid! Would definitely be open to coming back.

The pho at Pho Ga Hai Van is almost exactly like what we had in Vietnam. The broth was deep with chicken flavor and served with plentiful amounts of culantro and basil. I loved the chicken, which had the characteristic chewy QQ yellow skin of free range chickens. The biggest treat was they serve the unlaid chicken eggs (Trung non) which are deliciously bouncy. It is very expensive though at $8 for a plate of only a few eggs with some other assorted chicken offal (liver, giblets, and heart). These are all super tasty when dipped in their sweet ginger dipping sauce.This is as good as pho gets in OC! My new favorite spot easily

Not the best Pho for me.I had heard so many great things about their chicken Pho, so I decided to check out their menu. I ended up ordering their Ribeye beef, and it was surprisingly tasty! It was probably one of the best Phos I've ever had. I added lime and chili to my Ribeye Pho, and it was amazing. I almost finished the entire soup!But, I'm giving them three stars because my stomach started hurting two hours after eating. I'm still barely recovering two days later, and I even had to call off work. The moral of the story is to stick with their chicken Pho unless you have a strong stomach for the beef.The ambiance was great. It's a small, cozy spot with no fancy furniture. The service was super fast, thanks to their cool little robot that serves the dishes.One thing to note is that they apparently don't accept card payments for orders under $20. So, when the elderly Vietnamese lady who barely spoke English combined my check with my friends' (which we didn't ask for), she seemed to have a mini heart attack when I asked her to split the payment. Since my bill was under $20, I was charged a $1 card fee. Also, their recommended tipping starts at 15%.

I'm here almost every other week. I love a good bowl of soup so my go to order is the mien with chicken thigh and a side of vinegar onions. Love the spicy chili and the fresh black pepper. My daughter and I share a bowl and always leave feeling full and satisfied. Open late!

My new favorite Pho place!!!! Recently my favorite pho place closed :( and have been looking for new pho places I was really glad I found this place! Their Chicken Pho is amazing! The noodles taste homemade, the broth is flavorful and not salty or heavy at all like other pho places! I love that the pho comes with chicken too on the side. The chicken was perfectly cooked and wasn't dry at all. I would recommend getting their chicken thigh!I would highly recommend this place! One of the best Phos I have have in LA.Also their shaken beef with fried rice rolls is really good! Their beef is so flavorful and fried rice rolls are crispy. It goes well with the phoNote:-They have plenty of parking spaces available -They have plenty of indoor seating

This place needs to have better health standards with there food. Found a large thick strand of black hair in the egg roll. It was disgusting biting into it.

Definitely one of the top places in Little Saigon for chicken Vietnamese Pho . not all beef broth for places can do chicken for well. When I want the chicken soup then I go to a place that specializes in chicken soup. This is one of the two popular places that Vietnamese people would go when they have the cravings for the feathered bird variety. I like the clean soup base with the meat placed separately on a dish so that I can dip it in the ginger fish sauce and enjoying the flavor separate from the broth and soup. Service was very fast and respectful with a robot assisting the server in carrying out the dish promptly after ordering. I ordered the phone.

Service is very fast and efficient. The broth is always piping hot. They have late hours!

Since COVID-19, this place has become my go-to for chicken soup or just chicken dishes in general. One of the things I appreciate most is that there's never a wait time, and the food arrives almost as soon as you're seated. Each dish is consistently delicious, bursting with flavor, and perfectly cooked. Surprisingly, one of my favorite dishes here is the Mi Xao Gion (Crispy Noodles Stir Fry). However, I do have one critique: the protein portions are quite small compared to the noodles, with a ratio of about 1:4. While I understand that inflation has made everything more expensive, it would be nice to see a more balanced proportion of meat to noodles. Despite this, the overall experience keeps me coming back.

Pho Ga Hai Van offers good food with fair pricing, definitely worth coming in the area for their chicken pho. We went for weekday lunch; it wasn't busy, and we were seated right away. We tried the chicken pho and chicken congee. The chicken congee was homey and comforting, and the chicken pho was pretty good. Love that you can choose all white meat, dark meat, or combo.