12/04/2018: Aobaba Vietnamese Restaurant and Grocery Store is literally two buildings away from Safestay; I'm relieved noticing there are substantial necessities you may purchase at Aobaba such as Asian pears, fresh bananas, H2O, Asian beverages, vegetables, etc. without trudging ten minutes walking to Elephant and Castle's Shopping Center and the Elephant and Castle Underground Station.
However, upon ordering my late breakfast/lunch, i.e., the jet-lagged, groggy, dispositional meal after 24-hours landing at Heathrow, the special Won-Ton soup was lacking notably, bean sprouts, mint leaves, bay leaves, more assorted vegetables, and slices of chili peppers: I guess it's safe assuming the soups created here are catering to the local residences' taste buds and not those who are familiar with experiencing true ethnic, Vietnamese cuisine. Still, the broth was good, filling, laced with thin noodles, and a smidgeon of Won-Ton noodles filled with pork costing £8.50; nonetheless, the soup was . . . meh~boring.
In addition, I ordered the mango/green tea, bubble tea for £3.50 which was absolutely disappointing to my utter dismay: The bubble tea was like a Lipton pre-mixed green tea mixture and the same applies for the mango-definitely a questionable mixture; the mango tasted straight from a tin can and definitely not from pulverizing a fresh mango fruit sold at the Aobaba Grocery Store adjacent to the restaurant . . . Ironically, drinking the mango/green tea bubble tea was undoubtedly a disappointing surprise . . . Moreover, there were no tapioca pearls or flavored jelly cubes added to the mango/green tea bubble tea, i.e., surprisingly shocking.
https://aobaba.com/menu
I was literally taken aback, astonished the URL for Aobaba doesn't list the menu physically seen at the restaurant. Therefore, I'm submitting three stars for the decent broth, docking two stars for the lack of ingredients for the soup, Boba lacking tapioca pearls or flavored jelly cubes but, giving allowances for the extremely calm, soothing, pleasantly congenial, Aobaba Staff; aside, the Pho I ordered and ate was truly a . . . MEH, i.e., boring~I'll just shop at Aobaba's grocery store making my own Pho, just buy the fruit, and the vegetables. read more