i don't get all these stupid comments about not adding hoisin/sriracha. if you go to vietnam people add all those plus fish sauce or rendered beef fat, chili oil. people sometimes even dump a bowl of rice in the leftover broth to eat it up. add what u want, that's what makes it great.
Hey everyone! We made a bit of a flub with the address at the start of the video. The address of Golden Turtle is: 125 Ossington Ave, Toronto, ON M6J 2Z6 Thanks for watching!
Just some advice: taste the broth before putting in hoisin sauce, if the broth is not good enough for u add hoisin sauce but don't add a mouthful of it before eating
Cmon guys, there's nothing wrong with adding hoisin and siracha to the broth, it's just up to personal preferences. People in Vietnam do it all the time, in the south at least.
Only Northerners like to come to pho videos and say that. To that, I say, we all don't just eat cheese pizza or vanilla ice cream. Some of us like everything on our pizzas - meat and veggies and cheese - and for ice cream, I like things with nuts and all kinds of stuff going on in my ice cream. That's how I eat most of my food - I like all the different combinations of flavors and textures. If pho wasn't made to be modified for individual tastes, then it would not come with a platter of herbs that you can pick and choose from.
Lucas, the food looks so vibrant, fresh, and absolutely delicious. Everything you ordered looked amazingly delectable! Want me a bowl of that bun right now. Mmmmm!!!!
Very fortunate to have a couple Vietnamese restaurants nearby. It's not just the food. At my personal favorite one, they shut down the kitchen for family dinner every afternoon, and they leave the doors open, so you can still walk in, and enjoy a beer or a soda and watch tv while they eat. Considering what American and Vietnamese relations in the past, one of the friendliest restaurants I've ever been to.
The *oldest Vietnamese restaurants in Canada* are *in Québec* , where the *oldest Vietnamese community* in the country live, and who've *been there since WWII.* The first restaurants such as "Quán Liên" and "Chez Nga", not to mention the later "Ông Cẚ Cần" ("Chez Ô") are deeply entrenched in the culinary establishment of Francophone Canada.
Thank you so much Lucas (and Eater) for making. As a Vietnamese who love discovering the home food abroad, every dish in this video looks tasty. I am glad to tear when Lucas stated Vietnamese food as one of his fav. Cheerio for Hanoi
Love this pho!! Love how I didn't have to stand in the PHO-queue for this PHO-nomenal unPHOrgettable PHO. As always, send recipes and love letters c/o Vox Media, New York, NY. See you next week!! XOXOXO
You're making me want to go to Toronto. I want to get on a plane right now and get my Eastern Canadian friends together to go to this place and probably everywhere else you feature this season. I really love Vietnamese food. There is a lot in Vancouver but it's all starting to seem really fast foody and not high quality anymore but this looks delicious.
great review and great points about Vietnamese cuisine so healthy filling but not too heavy fresh and light and combine so many different ingredients all into one tasty dish. here in Southern California we have Little Saigon with a just some of the best Vietnamese restaurants you can find there is one place only that has the tastiest fish sauce it's more murky and looks homemade with a light brown but it's absolutely to die for at first I thought it was a little funky in my first time there but each visit back to the restaurant I feel more and more in love with the fish sauce until now I'm addicted to it and it doesn't even taste fishy to me anymore just a sweet salty creamy sauce that makes me feel healthy and good
When I look at lists of the healthiest cuisines in the world Vietnamese is on more than half those lists. I adore their use of clean broths and fresh herbs and veggies.
so rare seeing a restaurant which serves spring rolls with "true" dipping sauce instead of that weirdo peanut butter hoisin dipping sauce. Good work, good choice Eater!
Yeah, but I used to work in a Vietnamese restaurant and I made sauce for spring rolls everyday. You still didn't answer my question, what is "true" dipping sauce?
depends on the house, but the main ingredients are thinned down hoisin mixed with other stock (beef broth, chicken stock...), top with sweet and sour relish (daikon and carrot), , fried shallot, crushed peanuts. The final product should look like what is in the video - a dark rich translucent texture, any other peanut butter mixed sauces have a cloudy and spotty texture to it, even the smallest amount of peanut butter can kill the texture and taste of the sauce. I hope my words make sense here.
pho is great but i wish more of my american friends knew about the wonderous meal that is a bowl of bun (those cold vermicelli noodles he eats after the pho). It's really great in a diff way.
There's so much more than just pho. There's spring rolls, banh mi, tons of other noodle dishes (bun rieu, hu tieu, bun bo hue, banh canh, etc.), banh xeo and so much more.
This place looks awesome. My only concern is that it's a little too clean. Some times you just want a MSG shaker on the table, a thumb in the broth and the table to be tacky.
We're on the look out for Malaysian spots for future travel with Lucas. In the meantime you can check out this Malaysian Coffee shop we visited with one of our other hosts: th-cam.com/video/ETcqj1iEeR4/w-d-xo.html
Actually the first Pho Ru Vang restaurant was on St clair near stockyards and owned by the same owners that owned Pho Ga & Banh Cuon which also owns a Banh mi shop in Chinatown. Pho Ru Vang currently is in their 3rd location after moving down from their original spot a bit north of ossignton. You can tell quality has decreased and they now jacked up their prices due to the area being revamped. Better places then this in terms of quality and taste.
@@zingiberae Banh Cuon To Thanh is the new name when the new owners changed. It was originally called Pho Ga Banh Cuon or vice versa. Banh Cuon Thanh Truc is ok, but similar to Huong que style but smaller portions.
Love the video! Reminds me of my days hanging out in a Vietnamese pool hall and biker bar, eating Vietnamese pancakes, and fries dipped in fish sauce in Kentucky!
That broth is so nice and light,most must be good... The best pho I had was in Chicago.... Now that the shop closed down I don't know where else to go for a authentic bowl
Someone told me there were only 14 known Vietnamese people in Toronto in 1975. When the Vietnamese orphans arrived in Toronto April 1975, the local government had called upon them to help with food diets, translation and help for the children.
Lovely place, I might have to visit it sometime soon. I hope you make your way down Spadina in a future episode or go somewhere in Koreatown up on Bloor, the asian food in Toronto is pretty damn great.
Isn't it usually shrimp on the sugar cane instead or chicken? On another note, almost every viet person I know puts hoisin and sriracha sauce... I had never heard of it being disrespectful until one of these other pho videos mentioned it 😬
Funny how the first Pho restaurant in Ottawa that opened up which had great Pho was also named The Golden Turtle! I wonder if these owners or the previous was related to Sunny's family in anyway because I knew their son?
You know a pho restaurant is legit when they aren't afraid to serve the meat to the customer slightly raw. Too many americanized pho joints are just too worried about the food poisoning liability. These are the same types of people that are most likely to actually sicken themselves in a Korean BBQ setting as well.
nah the ones you're talking about are due to the local health code authorities BS inspections, causing restaurant owners to worry about fines and even shutting their place down. Not the restaurant owners' fault.
legit. My top pho restaurants in my city, one up that, I actually put "beef on the side" when I write down my order then I am able to put in myself when i get it.
If you ever come to VN, let me know and I'll show you around! Found it interesting they add Sriracha. It's not Vietnamese originally. They have a simpler homemade hot sauce usually here.
This looks beautiful. I'm in Toronto I gotta check this place out. Thanks for saying Pho the right way, dunno why but it's like nails on a chalkboard to me when it's not said right. It's like saying Toronto and accentuating the last T HARD lmao.
for me in soup/broth based food, i don't add any sauces at all... first. But the sauces and condiments are on the table FOR A REASON... that means "YES YOU CAN USE US". so after a few sip of the "original" usually I add something to it to change the flavor. well if you need more kick, more spiciness, more saltiness etc, just add those things. you've paid for the food anyway. and in Asia we are BLESSED with spices and whatnot. if I can enjoy various flavors in one dish, that's a bang for the buck! try youtube-ing Tokyo Extra channel's ramen series for example of how the host ALWAYS change the taste of the ramen after nearly finishing/half finishing the ramen.
dude you know if it's a good pho when the broth is so clear. And the eggroll- it's a legit Vietnamese eggroll with RICE PAPPER wrapper, it's a little harder and time consuming to make for restaurant, but this place has nailed! No wonder it has been around for so long. Real foodies know how to treasure good foods 😉
Are you still in Toronto? I recommend trying the Dandan noodles at "Chinese traditional buns" Also don't forget to head north to Yonge and Finch, there is "Buk Chang Dong Soon Tofu"
phoooo!!! nothing like a good extra large bowl during the winter night outings! eat half way through, then add the hoisen, sriracha, fish sauce and hot chili oil and it becomes a Brand new bowl of pho!
4:49 Fish sauce is not really that much of an acquired taste because the kind served in restaurants is already diluted with lots of other ingredients added to it like lime juice, garlic, chili, sugar, etc, so you're not going to taste much of the original fish flavor that's straight out of the bottle. It's just a nice savory tangy light sauce and it will blend in with the food that you're eating while enhancing it
i don't get all these stupid comments about not adding hoisin/sriracha. if you go to vietnam people add all those plus fish sauce or rendered beef fat, chili oil. people sometimes even dump a bowl of rice in the leftover broth to eat it up. add what u want, that's what makes it great.
It's all the Northerners, they get all offended when people eat pho the Southern Vietnamese way. Don't listen to them.
Absolutely agreed.
The northerners are the communist scrubs who destroyed the country.
Eat it like the south.
I'm from the north but, I put siracha and hosin in my soup...
im a northerner and we eat pho the same way
Hey everyone! We made a bit of a flub with the address at the start of the video. The address of Golden Turtle is: 125 Ossington Ave, Toronto, ON M6J 2Z6
Thanks for watching!
Just some advice: taste the broth before putting in hoisin sauce, if the broth is not good enough for u add hoisin sauce but don't add a mouthful of it before eating
Yea, he did that before adding the hoison and sriracha, the owner just wanted to show him how it would taste when the hoison was added
Pretty bad error. Seems worth a fix and re-upload. You've already left it up for a year though...
Cmon guys, there's nothing wrong with adding hoisin and siracha to the broth, it's just up to personal preferences. People in Vietnam do it all the time, in the south at least.
well said!
Only Northerners like to come to pho videos and say that. To that, I say, we all don't just eat cheese pizza or vanilla ice cream. Some of us like everything on our pizzas - meat and veggies and cheese - and for ice cream, I like things with nuts and all kinds of stuff going on in my ice cream. That's how I eat most of my food - I like all the different combinations of flavors and textures. If pho wasn't made to be modified for individual tastes, then it would not come with a platter of herbs that you can pick and choose from.
Pho is heaven.
this is true
I rarely enjoy pho without hoisin/sriracha
i do sriracha only, never had hoisin before tho
I feel like the restaurant owners featured on this show are always deserving of it. Another good one.
Pho is the perfect comfort food...I absolutely love it. Tendon is the best...
Lucas, the food looks so vibrant, fresh, and absolutely delicious. Everything you ordered looked amazingly delectable! Want me a bowl of that bun right now. Mmmmm!!!!
thank you for watching!!
Lucas are you on WestWorld? Yes, you're. Amazing!
Very fortunate to have a couple Vietnamese restaurants nearby. It's not just the food. At my personal favorite one, they shut down the kitchen for family dinner every afternoon, and they leave the doors open, so you can still walk in, and enjoy a beer or a soda and watch tv while they eat. Considering what American and Vietnamese relations in the past, one of the friendliest restaurants I've ever been to.
The Eater channel is pretty solid. Nice to hear people that know what their talking about while eating normal but still not normal food. THANK YOU
The *oldest Vietnamese restaurants in Canada* are *in Québec* , where the *oldest Vietnamese community* in the country live, and who've *been there since WWII.*
The first restaurants such as "Quán Liên" and "Chez Nga", not to mention the later "Ông Cẚ Cần" ("Chez Ô") are deeply entrenched in the culinary establishment of Francophone Canada.
that looks pho-king amazing.
They keep this in the family. WOW.
I love Lucas! I'll watch anything he's in - he's my favorite host on Eater
Thank you so much Lucas (and Eater) for making. As a Vietnamese who love discovering the home food abroad, every dish in this video looks tasty. I am glad to tear when Lucas stated Vietnamese food as one of his fav. Cheerio for Hanoi
Love this pho!! Love how I didn't have to stand in the PHO-queue for this PHO-nomenal unPHOrgettable PHO. As always, send recipes and love letters c/o Vox Media, New York, NY. See you next week!! XOXOXO
your video reviews of these restaurants are very comprehensive and engaging. thank you for sharing!
I Love how they kept it so Basic and light.
You're making me want to go to Toronto. I want to get on a plane right now and get my Eastern Canadian friends together to go to this place and probably everywhere else you feature this season. I really love Vietnamese food. There is a lot in Vancouver but it's all starting to seem really fast foody and not high quality anymore but this looks delicious.
Come! We love East Coasters! There are some very good Viet restos here. The Golden Turtle is good, but there are better ones here.
pretty sure it's minced shrimp on sugar cane and not chicken
My favourite pho in the city. I wish I could have shown you around Toronto! So many amazing places to eat.
where else would you recommend? :P
Pho Linh on College Street or Pho Pasteur at Spadina and Dundas
Pho Phuong is also good - super fresh ingredients. I do love Pho Linh too!!
Im so happy to hear Lucas' perspective on vietnamese food
The interview is a nice touch.
great review and great points about Vietnamese cuisine so healthy filling but not too heavy fresh and light and combine so many different ingredients all into one tasty dish. here in Southern California we have Little Saigon with a just some of the best Vietnamese restaurants you can find there is one place only that has the tastiest fish sauce it's more murky and looks homemade with a light brown but it's absolutely to die for at first I thought it was a little funky in my first time there but each visit back to the restaurant I feel more and more in love with the fish sauce until now I'm addicted to it and it doesn't even taste fishy to me anymore just a sweet salty creamy sauce that makes me feel healthy and good
When I look at lists of the healthiest cuisines in the world Vietnamese is on more than half those lists. I adore their use of clean broths and fresh herbs and veggies.
Whenever I see Lucas I LIKE before watching the video.
You explain the flavours really well, subscribed.
Vietnamese food is honestly one of my fave foods.
Lucas making poetry out of food videos, as always.
so rare seeing a restaurant which serves spring rolls with "true" dipping sauce instead of that weirdo peanut butter hoisin dipping sauce.
Good work, good choice Eater!
What's is the "true" dipping sauce? That looks like a mixture of hoisin and peanut butter to me.
yes, "that looks a mixture..." because you are not VNese :)
Yeah, but I used to work in a Vietnamese restaurant and I made sauce for spring rolls everyday. You still didn't answer my question, what is "true" dipping sauce?
depends on the house, but the main ingredients are thinned down hoisin mixed with other stock (beef broth, chicken stock...), top with sweet and sour relish (daikon and carrot), , fried shallot, crushed peanuts. The final product should look like what is in the video - a dark rich translucent texture, any other peanut butter mixed sauces have a cloudy and spotty texture to it, even the smallest amount of peanut butter can kill the texture and taste of the sauce. I hope my words make sense here.
Makes total sense. That sounds really good! I've only ever known it to have peanut butter, in both Thai and Viet style.
pho is great but i wish more of my american friends knew about the wonderous meal that is a bowl of bun (those cold vermicelli noodles he eats after the pho). It's really great in a diff way.
I don't know anything about Vietnamese food except pho, but that salad bowl looks amazing
There's so much more than just pho. There's spring rolls, banh mi, tons of other noodle dishes (bun rieu, hu tieu, bun bo hue, banh canh, etc.), banh xeo and so much more.
U already cover Thailand and Vietnam, please do Indonesian food next.
Agree, indonesian food is one of the best things i have ever eaten. Such a shame that nobody in the west can cook a proper bakso.
+You lost the game bakso is mystery meat pls lah
Yeah i'd like them to find one in toronto so i can finally try it for myself :9
Shah Esfelazi yah its my Indo fav too besides pempek
Up yo go bruh, so he can read this comment
Looks amazing! Those sugar cane chicken nuggets look really fun. Excellent job Lucas!
Viet food is one of the best cuisines in the world!
Henry Ngo
After tasting my first bowl of Pho, a few months ago, I've been hooked. Really delicious clean food... I so agree!
Lucas doesn't seem as upbeat as he was a month back. Cheer up Lucas.
Sweet a video from Toronto
This place looks awesome. My only concern is that it's a little too clean.
Some times you just want a MSG shaker on the table, a thumb in the broth and the table to be tacky.
man that looks soo good. I used to hate Pho but I've really come to love it. I'd eat it 3x/week if I could.
Lucas! Good episode man. Keep them comin'!
Everything looks so good 😍 great episode!
Another satisfying video which made me hungry. For some reason I tend to watch your videos at midnight. When are you going to do Malaysian food ?
We're on the look out for Malaysian spots for future travel with Lucas. In the meantime you can check out this Malaysian Coffee shop we visited with one of our other hosts: th-cam.com/video/ETcqj1iEeR4/w-d-xo.html
Golden Turtle is my spot. I adore that place. Their spicy satay broth is the answer to all the secrets of the universe
Actually the first Pho Ru Vang restaurant was on St clair near stockyards and owned by the same owners that owned Pho Ga & Banh Cuon which also owns a Banh mi shop in Chinatown. Pho Ru Vang currently is in their 3rd location after moving down from their original spot a bit north of ossignton. You can tell quality has decreased and they now jacked up their prices due to the area being revamped. Better places then this in terms of quality and taste.
It looks like you mean Banh Cuon To Thanh? Banh Cuon Thanh Truc is my favourite though
@@zingiberae Banh Cuon To Thanh is the new name when the new owners changed. It was originally called Pho Ga Banh Cuon or vice versa. Banh Cuon Thanh Truc is ok, but similar to Huong que style but smaller portions.
You're on Ossington but the map and address are for North York?
Error on our part. Unfortunately TH-cam does not allow users to replace videos on the back end.
125 Ossington Ave, Toronto, ON M6J 2Z6
We just put the correct address as the lead comment. Thanks!
That looked so good and fresh.
This is my fav restaurant in the city! Saw George Stroumboulopoulos there once!
Love the video!
Reminds me of my days hanging out in a Vietnamese pool hall and biker bar, eating Vietnamese pancakes, and fries dipped in fish sauce in Kentucky!
At a truly great Pho spot they just hook you up intravenously to the soup stock and dump the noodles down your throat.
AWW the way Lucas looks up at 3:19. SOOO PRECIOUSSS
Omg right?! 😍
Just saw Lucas in Westworld and I was amazed.
That broth is so nice and light,most must be good... The best pho I had was in Chicago.... Now that the shop closed down I don't know where else to go for a authentic bowl
OMG I just saw the episode 2 of WESTWORLD and this dude is in it !!
MrAtaguas really? I gotta re-watch it!!
I love Pho! When I went to Vietnam, I ate it. It was yummy.
Amazing video!!!😍😍😍💯
Lucas looking cool like a cucumber everytime he walks into a restaurant
This was one of the best Eater Episodes ever. The food all looked amazing.
finally a good length video.
love these places, moved to the midwest and one local viet place is so lonely and not very busy, it's tragic because their food is pretty decent
So proud to be Vietnamese people 🙋
Someone told me there were only 14 known Vietnamese people in Toronto in 1975.
When the Vietnamese orphans arrived in Toronto April 1975, the local government had called upon them to help with food diets, translation and help for the children.
I'm adding this location to my list, thanks!
+Eater you got the address wrong. It's actually 125 Ossington Ave, Toronto, ON M6J 2Z6
Lovely place, I might have to visit it sometime soon. I hope you make your way down Spadina in a future episode or go somewhere in Koreatown up on Bloor, the asian food in Toronto is pretty damn great.
There's a golden turtle pho restaurant in Mississauga too! It's the same sign and everything woahh
I love this restaurant! I am not Vietnamese but their food is so yum!
pho/Vietnamese food is the best. so underrated.
Isn't it usually shrimp on the sugar cane instead or chicken? On another note, almost every viet person I know puts hoisin and sriracha sauce... I had never heard of it being disrespectful until one of these other pho videos mentioned it 😬
Damn that food looks good. I live in Scarborough, but I will visit the Golden Turtle very soon.
hmmm no kidding? ok
Funny how the first Pho restaurant in Ottawa that opened up which had great Pho was also named The Golden Turtle! I wonder if these owners or the previous was related to Sunny's family in anyway because I knew their son?
You know a pho restaurant is legit when they aren't afraid to serve the meat to the customer slightly raw. Too many americanized pho joints are just too worried about the food poisoning liability. These are the same types of people that are most likely to actually sicken themselves in a Korean BBQ setting as well.
Every pho joint I've been to serves completely raw beef that is to be cooked in the boiling broth when it is served to the customers.
Henry Ngo As it should be. As it should be.
nah the ones you're talking about are due to the local health code authorities BS inspections, causing restaurant owners to worry about fines and even shutting their place down. Not the restaurant owners' fault.
legit. My top pho restaurants in my city, one up that, I actually put "beef on the side" when I write down my order then I am able to put in myself when i get it.
If you ever come to VN, let me know and I'll show you around!
Found it interesting they add Sriracha. It's not Vietnamese originally. They have a simpler homemade hot sauce usually here.
Vietnamese is always my go to lunch choice. Perfectly balanced food, just as Lucas says.
San Jose, CA has excellent pho places too
Damn straight! Preach!
pho is my most favourite meal
This looks beautiful. I'm in Toronto I gotta check this place out. Thanks for saying Pho the right way, dunno why but it's like nails on a chalkboard to me when it's not said right. It's like saying Toronto and accentuating the last T HARD lmao.
he never even talked about the actual pho bowl itself. He only talked about the beef, the sauce, and the herbs.. lol
the simplest things are always the best. bean sprouts, onions, fresh herbs, clear stock, what more can you get?
Location graphic at the start is wrong. This is in trinity bellwoods not north york
for me in soup/broth based food, i don't add any sauces at all... first. But the sauces and condiments are on the table FOR A REASON... that means "YES YOU CAN USE US". so after a few sip of the "original" usually I add something to it to change the flavor.
well if you need more kick, more spiciness, more saltiness etc, just add those things. you've paid for the food anyway. and in Asia we are BLESSED with spices and whatnot.
if I can enjoy various flavors in one dish, that's a bang for the buck!
try youtube-ing Tokyo Extra channel's ramen series for example of how the host ALWAYS change the taste of the ramen after nearly finishing/half finishing the ramen.
Looks Good, if time permits will try when in Toronto. Keep it "real" Lucas. I bid you Peace.
I like all the hosts on this channel but Lucas is prob my fav.
Looks so good !
this is how you eat pho here in the states in any vietnamese community. the best way. good response video to that bon appetit one lol
dude you know if it's a good pho when the broth is so clear. And the eggroll- it's a legit Vietnamese eggroll with RICE PAPPER wrapper, it's a little harder and time consuming to make for restaurant, but this place has nailed! No wonder it has been around for so long. Real foodies know how to treasure good foods 😉
Are you still in Toronto?
I recommend trying the Dandan noodles at "Chinese traditional buns"
Also don't forget to head north to Yonge and Finch, there is "Buk Chang Dong Soon Tofu"
Is sea cucumber used in traditional broth?
Does Golden Turtle have different stores in the GTA?
This looks good - but my top Toronto Pho restaurant is Pho House, Gerrard and Broadview! It's a hidden gem - shhhh.
YES!!! Thumbs up for Vietnamese cuisine :D
Lukas is by far the besy host for eaters.
btw, pho is one of my favorites, next to sushi and korean bbq "kbbq".
but one thing about pho restaurants in LA is that they use way too much msg.
There is a Golden Turtle in Kitchener as well.
phoooo!!! nothing like a good extra large bowl during the winter night outings! eat half way through, then add the hoisen, sriracha, fish sauce and hot chili oil and it becomes a Brand new bowl of pho!
Another restaurant to try out. Never had pho before even though pho restaurants are everywhere in TO.
Do they use MSG?
The first thing you should do when you eat pho is taste the broth. Always and immediately.
Siracha is always a go to for me.
Damn lucas just saw you on westworld.....congrats on being on a great show.
Come to Vancouver!!!!!!! We want Lucas :)
4:49 Fish sauce is not really that much of an acquired taste because the kind served in restaurants is already diluted with lots of other ingredients added to it like lime juice, garlic, chili, sugar, etc, so you're not going to taste much of the original fish flavor that's straight out of the bottle. It's just a nice savory tangy light sauce and it will blend in with the food that you're eating while enhancing it
that place is definitely the best pho restaurant in toronto
Interesting how he suggests putting hoisin and sriracha in the soup bc usually it's discouraged! I'm late for work now. lol
No in the street pho places in Vietnam they always have Sircha and Hoisin and Lemon, everyone uses it.
is this place still open
are there any good pho spots in brampton or missisagua