Kim Son

This is my experience with this place. The woman who was in the counter on Sep 24, 2014 gave me 5 dollars less as change what I should have got. I walked a few meters without counting the money, and when I realised that have got $ 5 less, she was saying she gave me correct amount. I kept quite just because It’s $ 5. But I was super amazed that the same thingbhas happened to one my work collegues today.
Please be aware.

Decided to try to this place out before seeing a movie. Very pleasantly surprised. The Phở had a very generous amount of chicken, well-​spiced, flavorful, and authentic tasting. Like something your friend’s mom might cook, and the shrimp wrap, was large, and very fresh, and looked even better than it did in the photo. All in all, a very good culinary experience, and all the better given it’s unlikely environs — the dim food court in Tinseltown!

In my mind, there is something to be said about honest food, which, to me, means food that genuinely represents a person’s upbringing, culture, and heritage. It is food that is reasonable for the restaurant owner to cook and to sell and still turn a profit.
Kim Son Vietnamese doesn’t look like much. It is a food stall in a lonely, mostly empty food court in a mall that most people only pass through in order to see a film that might not be showing anywhere else. But I wanted to try it out because I had the hankering for phở, and I didn’t want to walk another two blocks into chinatown.
The special beef noodle soup is $ 7. The bowl is reasonably sized and portioned. The bean sprouts and basil were fresh and crisp. The broth soup seemed like it was simmered for quite a while. It had been strained but I could see the itsy-​bits of boiled stock ingredients that differentiate a real homemade soup from a purely msg-​packaged soup. The flavor was rich and I nearly finished the whole bowl of soup noodles.
The proprietor’s young daughter was hanging about with her friend. I liked that the mother offered free food to the friend. If it was good enough for her kid’s friends, then its probably good enough for me too.
You can find better phở deals in Chinatown and in the rest of Vancouver. But Kim Son is pretty good for the money and its location in a food court. I would come back.