Mylien’s Vietnamese Cuisine

For Glendora I guess it’s not too bad, but trying to find a good phở place local to me that can compete with SGV or Westminster/​GG but that’s probably too much to ask. Like Donna S. says, this place is actually Mylien’s, not Le Petite although the yellow canopy outside may have been left over from the prior business…
We were walking around on a nice sunny Saturday taking in the local chalk festival when I remembered hearing about this place on Unilocal once during a cursory search for local phở. We walked in and it wasn’t busy at all and we had our choice of seats. The place is quaint and clean, though covered with Asian bric-​à-​brac…
After perusing the menu I decided to order a large bowl of Phở Tai. I asked for the rare beef on the side which was not a problem. The phở came with the usual extras like Thai basil, bean sprouts, some sliced chiles, and a lemon wedge; I thought the bean sprouts were particularly fresh. The rare beef was chilled and pliable, and was thinly sliced and laid on a separate plate sprinkled with green onions. The broth was clear like consumme and was on the sweet tasting side, but was missing the depth and acridness like other dedicated phở places and would never be mistaken for one of those. Other places also offer tendon, tripe but these were missing from the menu, though they do offer different kinds of phở like chicken, shrimp, seafood, fish, or veggie with your choice of beef or chicken broth. They also offer a House Special Phở with rare beef, meatballs, and brisket in beef broth — sort of their phở dac biet…
We really enjoyed what my wife ordered: the banh xeo or Vietnamese Crêpe. It’s a «sizzling cake» when it’s made as the rice flour and water crêpe hits the hot skillet, resulting in a light, crispy outer shell. The filling is salty savory from the grilled shrimp and given some added crispy texture from the fresh bean sprouts and gently folded over. Served with fresh romaine, sliced carrots, daikon, and fresh mint leaves, you make a wrap out of it with the lettuce/​crêpe along with the condiments and gently dip it in the accompanying fish sauce. It was delicious…
For drinks, wifey got a refreshingly light chrysanthemum infused ice tea while I got my usual ca phe sua da or iced Vietnamese coffee w/​condensed milk. Unlike some seemingly random reviews which complained of bad service, ours was exemplary, they were friendly and attentive without hovering. The food was fine, I wouldn’t come here over other phở places but we thought the banh xeo was excellent. They even seem to have a social media presence (fb and foursquare)…