This was the second Vietnamese place I checked upon moving to the Central valley. They have good flavor and good area with televisions, which is a plus for my dad when he visits. We like to watch the Warriors game while eating! Try the bun (dry noodles) with the beef/onion, fried egg roll and shrimp (#41). The shrimp spring rolls taste fresh and great peanut sauce. The pho isn't bad either. I give them a 4 because each time I've come, they are out of p Tapioca balls for their drinks (and I've been here several times usually during dinner or late afternoon. read more

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This is the only full fledged Vietnamese restaurant in the area I've made a return visit to so far. I've tried pho at at least five Modesto restaurants and Saigon Restaurant serves the only acceptable one for me. iPho's broth was incredibly sweet, too sweet. Crawfish too sweet. Phoenix Noodle house near downtown is also too sweet. I guess I should have listened to the few Vietnamese people in town that I met that said that Saigon is the only okay Vietnamese restaurant around. They were super nice when I called to ask if I had left my sweater behind. When I showed up, a guy immediately came outside the restaurant to give it to me (before I could even go back inside to retrieve it). I have yet to try other dishes, but so far the pho is fine. Other bay area pho places beat this place for sure but I guess that is to be expected. If you've had pho several times, then I would suggest asking for the sliced pho tai meat to be served raw on a plate on the side. I like to wait a minute or two before adding the raw beef to the bowl. I feel like this really improves the texture and taste of the meat inside the soup. This way, the beef is not overcooked and is not too tough. The smoothie with boba I ordered here was noticeably different than other smoothies I've gotten from other nearby boba shops. I think the boba/pearls themselves were not sweetened with sugar. The pearls had an excellent texture. They were not overly soft and had a very springy/bouncy texture to them. Service is as expected. It isn't overly friendly, pretty basic. read more

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Delicious! This place was so good! May be our new spot to eat Vietnamese. Best peanut sauce, fresh spring rolls, pho, vermicelli plates. Quick service. Clean. Generous portions. Five stars! read more

The place had a bad odor and the food was sub part. They only sell hot and sour soup in large bowls and it had a flavor of animal fat.

We haven't been in a while but decided to make a stop on our way home from Pinecrest. The girls got pho and I chow fun with gravy. The pho was just as good as we remembered and the combination chowfun was surprisingly very flavorful! The rice dishes were always a hit in the past too. (No photos sorry) read more

Good food! Fast friendly service. Many selections to choose from. Nice serving sizes. Give them a try

Ordered take away today for my husband and myself looking forward to supporting local business and eating a rare treat as we love Vietnamese food. Saigon had always been on the list of local places to try out so, it was very disappointing to be served spoiled food. We ordered a vermicelli dish that had egg roll, beef and shrimp. Upon opening Styrofoam container the smell of spoiled seafood wafted out, they were so smelly that it was bizarre the cook did not notice they were serving expired food. I am just glad I could smell the food was unsuitable to consume or had I not realized I definitely could have gotten sick or food poising. On a positive note: It was easy enough to remove from the rest of the dish I ordered thank goodness and I did enjoy trying the rest of the dish, but overall I will say, I am not going to be recommending or returning back to get food from Saigon. I understand this is a difficult time for small business and they may be struggling, but at what cost do you cut corners and serve spoiled food to your patrons? When times improve and stay orders are lifted, we will not eat at Saigon. read more

Used to be okay for Vietnamese food .Quality has slipped Service has always been poor. I think they pride themselves in being rude.

The broth in they're pho is one of the best I've ever had!!!! They're spring rolls and dipping sauce are delicious!!!! I would also recommend they're garlic chicken. They are kind of rude but only a couple of people then happen to have an attitude prob. But that food do be fire. read more

Been coming to this place for years now, love the food the Pho & Chicken Black bean dishes are pretty bomb.

Watered down Pho... staff not so friendly, it's a so so place. Won't go out of my way for it.

Best traditional Vietnamese food in Modesto!! Service is alright, but it is the price to pay for traditional Vietnamese food! Ambiance is pretty clean and bustling. read more

Went in to have lunch with my husband. We were seated and waited 5 minutes. No one came to ask for our drinks or give us a menu. A man came in after us and was immediately handed a menu and his drink order was placed. We got up and left. Not sure if it was because the man was Asian and clearly we were not. Will never return read more

The people who own and work in this restaurant are polite and attentive. The food is consistently excellent! Great selection of different dishes. Give it a try! You won't be disappointed. read more

IF I COULD GIVE ZERO STARS I WOULD. Service was SUPER BAD. I ordered the seafood rice plate, it smelled like someone peed their pants in a hot car and let it sit for days. My boyfriend chicken curry rice plate and found METAL IN HIS FOOD!!! It was a long strip of hard aluminum. The man got mad when he saw my plate completely full and my boyfriends half full and we said we didn't want a box. A small lady brought us our food and when I asked for chopsticks she went back to the front counter and started laughing hysterically like I can't use them because I'm Caucasian. Staff was very rude and I did not appreciate anything. I honestly didn't even want to pay after that. It was not worth the 32.04 we paid. read more

Saigon Restaurant - METAL FOUND IN MY BOYFRIENDS FOOD!!! - Vietnamese Near Me - Modesto, California

Literally my favorite restaurant ever! The food is delicious and the workers are great. Food comes out very fast, and always tastes perfect. Pho 100/10! So yummy and perfect for this fall weather. Shrimp spring rolls 10/10 the peanut dipping sauce is to die for. read more

Saigon Restaurant - #11 with added beef balls - Vietnamese Near Me - Modesto, California

Was almost finished with my food and pretty much was rushed out because he started putting the table together while I'm still eating. Never coming back I only came because Phoenix noodle house is closed on Sundays. read more

This place was small but very comfortable. The service was good and fast I would recommend! read more

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Sick and tired of these kind of places acting as if we owe them money before we even walk through the door. My wife orders shrimp chow mein and told him specifically she didn't want the chicken chow mein cuz she's vegetarian. So he brings chicken chow mein and she told him kindly "I ordered shrimp, remember?" And instead of saying...oh idk..."sorry, I'll bring you what you ordered", he gives us the stink eye and sighs all annoyed. F this place. Not my fault u flunked ESL, homie. And I don't even care about stuff like that but the pho was nasty too. Noodles were so overly cooked to where they were melting in the bowl. Didn't even bring me a plate for my sauces. Pathetic service. I can't believe I even tipped the guy. read more

This place has the best tasting pho around here. Iv tried so many other pho restaurants and this is by far the only to go for me! My husband and I also like the pork bbq with rice. So good! read more

What the hell happened to this place?! My aunt took me here the first month they opened and the pho and iced coffee was amazing! It was my Go-To spot when ever I'm in the area. On Sunday (11/9/14) 2PM I took my two friends out for lunch and had recommended this pho restaurant because I had a really great past experience. A table for three and I was bragging on how great the pho #1 and chow fun at this joint was. We ordered a #1 pho medium, chicken soup small, seafood chowfun, taro with boba, ice coffee, tea, combination chow fun. Okay now for my pros and cons. Pros: the food came out fast, condiments were clean and filled, clean seating area, first pho place that has a working AC (bring a sweater), the guy in the vest is the only attentive server there (we didn't have him as our server this time) Cons: My pho broth was so bland. I had to drench my pho with lots of hoisin sauce. My iced coffee wasn't fully blended. The condense milk sat on the bottom of my to-go cup. I didn't ask for boba so the coffee should have costed $3 instead of $3.50. Plus they filled the cup full of ice, barely any coffee. The taro drink was okay, the boba they used were OLD, you can tell when the center is over cooked and hard. The chow fun was pretty bland. No flavor at all. The seafood chow fun had a lot of fish cake and less shrimp and squid. I think they thought the fish cake can fool me haha nope! We had to add siracha and hoisin sauce in the chow fun too... ugh... food was pretty bad this time. Another thing, my friend doesn't like bean sprouts in her chow fun, and I asked our server the cook can make the chow fun without bean sprouts, the server rudely says NO! we can't do that. ... It's like shit... we're saving you ingredients. That was weird of them. My friend ordered a ice tea and not once the server came to check up on us or refilled his tea or our waters. I didn't touch my coffee the entire meal. Once we're done eating my our tab was about $50 Now for 4 basic entree and 3 drinks at a pho place that's pretty high for generic food, we're better off at DK noodles or Noodle Palace. I don't know how these reviews on this restaurant is 5 stars. read more

If i could have given 0 stars that would have been appropriate. My sister and I ordered 7 orders of Chow Fung to go due to covid. We called the order in to pick it up and have lunch with our mom. Thank god it was not already made in advance. When we arrived, we paid and they told us 10min which was fine. We noticed the cook in the back coughing and sneezing. When we both stood up and looked not 1 of the 3 employees cooking in the kitchen had on a mask... The man steering food in a wok was sneezing all over everything. It was absolutely ridiculous. I demanded a refund which took about 10min to convince them that i was not leaving without my money. By the time we left everyone was wearing a mask or face shield in the kitchen. My sister recorded it all on her cell phone. read more

This place has changed drastically in the past few months. I've noticed their pho broth tastes so bland now -really watered down. It doesn't matter whether its with beef, pork, chicken, or seafood. Lately the greens with the pho I had was bitter -overcooked or maybe rotten! Oh, by the way, the waitresses are still consistently rude. The cashier won't even give you a copy of your credit card charge receipt available on their electronic gadgets. When asked for one, you get a lousy separate and incompatible receipt from their cash registry system. It won't tell you how much tip you added to the invoice. So don't tip - "as a later tip". read more

ON POINT! To satisfy our 'pho' craving my family has come begun coming to this place for just this purpose. In all the times we have been here during Lunch hour, dinner rush and even the random slow days, we have experienced only #1 AWESOME service. The young man in the always dress shirt and tie has greeted us upon entering, either guided us to a seat Or has said In a welcoming tone and voice " yes, wherever you would like" in regards to our seating preference. Then made sure to have waters, menus and say " take your time and let me know when you are ready" *sigh and breath of relaxation* there was never a feel of being rushed as soon as we are seated and we truly felt like we could do the "normal" of browse the menu (even though we always know what we want) #2 FLAVOR AND HOT. HOT. HOT broth! We look foward to it. We yearn for it and we expect it! Not once have we been disappointed and not once have we had any complain. My husband can be picky and really so can I. Our kids, love the variety in a menu and so with this restaurant all 5 stars. It is kind of a smaller place. But than again I LOVE the hole in the wall spots. *BEST COOKS, that are taught thru generations* so with that, know you are going to a smaller "restaurant" ask questions about the menu, say you saw the restaurant on yelp and enjoy! This really is a yummy place to get that pho craving met! read more

Saigon Restaurant - Medium bowl (lots of noodles) rare steak, tendon and tripe. Yum! - Vietnamese Near Me - Modesto, California

Are you kidding me!? This is some sort or worm I found in my Pho. Needless to say I won't ever purchase from this place. read more

Saigon Restaurant - Are you kidding me!? This is some sort or worm I found in my Pho. Needless to say I won't ever purchase from this place. - Vietnamese Near Me - Modesto, California

Love this place. We go at least once a week. Large number 1 with extra meatball and the wife gets the pho ga. Far and away the best pho in Modesto. Always friendly to us, we come here a lot and they appreciate us being regulars, and we appreciate their pho bigtime read more

Decent place, decent service, good prices with variety of dishes for Vietnamese food. They have a bit of everything - pretty good noodle soups (pho), pretty good Com Tam (rice plates), dried noodles, appetizers, dessert drinks, etc. This is one of the better places for Vietnamese food, considering this small town of Modesto. Don't find many good Vietnamese restaurants around here these days. read more

If you enjoy Pho and Vietnamese food this is a great place. Will customize orders and make their food fresh.

Service and speed: Excellent! Quality and quantity of meats and additions: Great! Broth: Meh! Pho is all about the broth. Even with cock sauce and flavorings, the broth lacked body and richness. However, this did hit the spot I was looking for and seeing as though it's close to my home/work, I will probably be back but I've had much better. read more

Saigon Restaurant - #1 to go. Amazing! - Vietnamese Near Me - Modesto, California

This place is really close to my apartment, so I was excited to try it out. It's a pretty standard Vietnamese restaurant, nothing fancy. It looked clean and we were attended to as soon as we walked in. The waitress brought us two glasses of water with the menus and gave us time to see what they had to offer. My husband and I both ordered the Vermicelli bowl with beef. We also ordered spring rolls with pork and shrimp and an order of crispy egg rolls. I opted for an iced coffee with sweetened condensed milk and my husband got the Thai tea with boba. The appetizers came out quickly. The crispy egg rolls were smaller than average but they give you five of them. They were very good, but the accoutrements of lettuce leaves and mint were very sparse. Not enough lettuce leaves to wrap the rolls. The spring rolls were okay, very light on pork and mint and very heavy on the rice noodles and lettuce. There wasn't any cucumber or basil. The peanut sauce was awesome, though. The vermicelli bowls were okay, these seemed to be really light on the veggies and herbs as well. There was a lot of grilled beef in them though. It was wrapped around green onions, making it a little tough to eat. The Thai tea was good, as was the iced coffee. I was disappointed that the coffee came pre-made in a take out cup. I am used to it being brewed into the cup at the table. The service was good, I didn't experience any of the negativity reported in other reviews. Next time I think I'll try the pho. It might be better. read more

Saigon Restaurant - Vermicelli with beef - Vietnamese Near Me - Modesto, California

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Pretty good little Vietnamese spot in Modesto. Prices are moderate and servings are healthy. This last visit I got a medium pho #1 with everything in it. Very filling and delicious. I was in the restaurant alone so from the time I ordered till I got my food was only about 5 mins which is awesome on a 30min lunch. Other things that are pretty good are the chicken wings, grilled pork with vermicelli noodles and tofu rice dish. Staff and friendly and attentive. Cash only is you don't exceed a bill over $15. The pho cost me about $10 after tip and tax. I frequently come back to this place as it's close to my job sites and my stomach is never upset after eating here. Check it out if you're ever in the area. read more

Saigon Restaurant - Vietnamese Near Me - Modesto, California

Inexpensive and delicious! My favorite is the #55 with beef and an egg roll The employees are also very nice :) read more

This was the worst Pho restaurant ever been too. The service was terrible to include all servers being rude. Not once were we ever checked on to see if everything was okay. They are so quick to grab your money and make you leave! We were treated differently because we are not Vietnamese. I would not recommend this restaurant! Very racist people!!! Shame on you! The food that was served did not look the same as the other customers who were Vietnamese. Plates and bowls were slammed on table as if we were animals! It was not worth what we paid for! Terrible food and service! I give this place zero stars and thumbs down read more

Saigon Restaurant - Egg rolls - Vietnamese Near Me - Modesto, California

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I was craving pho and bestie said this place was good so we came here for lunch over the weekend. I had the Beef Ball Pho for a plainer taste and also got some Grilled Pork Spring Rolls. The pho broth was alright, as it tasted a bit MSG-like and salty, but the pho was good. Beef balls were pretty good-- a bit on the plainer side, but still good. Grilled Pork Spring Rolls is a favorite of bestie, and I thought it was ok. The pork tasted like vegetarian meat to me and the spring roll itself was alright, but the peanut dipping sauce was very good. Service is quick and efficient and prices were quite cheap for what they were. A small pho was already pretty big for me. For some reason, however, my friend's bowl had more noodles (she had a #3) and I had more beef balls and less noodles. Not sure if that's just how it is or if it's because she's a regular (we both got small bowls), but whatever. It was filling even by itself. A decent place to get pho in the area, as there aren't many choices, but I've had way better. read more

Spring rolls are great. Good service and always busy. Soups are delicious and food is always very fresh.

Been coming here for some time & never disappoints and service is fast. Go to plate is the seafood pho, especially during cold rainy days.

Let me say I do like this place. They have a huge selection on the menu and so far, they're all tasty. So...that being said, there's a slight language barrier. I placed an order to go over the phone and went to pick it up. I got there and apparently I ordered 3 plates to go! I tried to explain to them I ordered one plate, but ended up paying for all three. As a business owner, she should've made the customer happy. read more

Ordered the combination rice plate and vermicelli. Huge portions and food tasted good. Would come back again if I was in the area

Only giving it 3 stars because their health practices is not to be desire in both places. They have 2 places one on Carpenter Rd & Oakdale Rd. Just ate yesterday the one on Carpenter, Saigon One, I noticed the server when he was placing the menu back in the rack, the one I was just using, he bent down place the menu with his hand then kicked it to push it all the way in place with his shoes. One in Oakdale Rd., I observed in the past, the server uses their bare hands to put together the plastic utensils and napkin together and this is for order to go. Makes me wonder if they do the same for the dine-in utensils? What really concerns me is, during both incidents, the owner was there. Maybe, someone has to tell owner or train him some healthy practices when working with food. These things you tend to ignore because their food are delicious. I guess I can say, not only me but to others, EAT AT YOUR OWN RISK. read more

The service nice the food amazing the soup hit the spot when I was feeling sick but what I didn't like was price three for bowls 9.95 each for me it's 29.85 for them 38 with no drinks nothing I didn't say anything because it doesn't matter but why act like you don't English when you bring up the price increase. read more

Saigon Restaurant - Details on everything you ordered - Vietnamese Near Me - Modesto, California

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