Com Pho in Tokyo

Reader Michael Toppa recently ate at Com Pho in Tokyo, which serves a "highly bastardized" pho - not bad, but not strictly pho.

It’s been a long time since I’ve written a pho review. I have a backlog of a few I’ve been meaning to write (two more in Philly and one in San Mateo), and hopefully I’ll get to those soon. But for now I’ll weave my talk of pho with my ongoing talk of Tokyo. Pho is not easy to find in Japan. While the Vietnamese diaspora in Tokyo is big enough to sustain at least a few Vietnamese restaurants, you usually need to go to a specialty shop to get good pho. Thanks to the dazzling pho-king site, I was aware of at least one pho restaurant in Tokyo. Unfortunately, I never made it there - it would have been an excursion to get there from where we lived, and it just never made it to the top of the list. But I did stumble across the Com Pho stand in the  basement of the Marunouchi Oazo shopping center, located across the street from Tokyo station. Com Pho is a chain with four locations in Tokyo, but I haven’t been to the others.

Read the full review (with pictures) on Michael's site.

Comments

[pho deprived in Hiroshima]

Again...chicken soup based Pho in Tokyo in a suburb called Kouenji 　高円寺

The place is called Chopstix and its claim to fame is it's the first "fresh" or NAMA pho establishment in Japan? None of it looks like pho to me so I will not translate the blog or home site for the restaurant.

http://blog.namamen.com/
http://www.vietnam-sketch.com/cooking/shokusaiki/2005/09.html

As far as I can see only PHO GA.