Comments on: Vietnamese showdown in Tampa: Trang Viet Cuisine vs. Pho Quyen

By: John Taylor

John Taylor — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:35:52 +0000

I found your blog on Google. I’ve bookmarked it and will watch out for your next blog post.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:38:31 +0000

Most of the Vietnamese people I know don’t take much of a liking to Pho Quyen. I myself have yet to visit the place, being on a rather tight budget this semester. I enjoy most of USF’s new Marshall Center dining, it’s just over priced and I’ll stay away from it unless I absolutely am starving for food (in which case I’ll usually just go home). Anyway, Japanese and Thai are more of my specialties, but I thought I’d still let you know that I enjoyed this post and you did a good job on it.

By: Chuck Garvey fan

Chuck Garvey fan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:44:09 +0000

I have been loyal to Trang for almost 15 years. I love the simple charm of the place as well as the food. In fact, this well-traveled foodie would rank Trang as one of my overall top 10 favorite restaurants that I’ve ever been to, period. I also love the steamed buns, “S-10″ (pho soup, which would be really great on this chilly day), and the veggie drumsticks are a favorite, too. (I’ve tried to get Mr. Trang to make a “Buffalo” version for this western New York native, but to no avail, so far!) As for Pho Quyen, I must admit I haven’t tried it yet, mostly because the loss of Lucy Ho’s still pains me deeply. (sigh)

By: Eating Tampa - Chopstix

Eating Tampa - Chopstix — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:41:35 +0000

[...] While you’re visiting Delicious History be sure to check out Andy’s taste test throwdown between Trang Viet and Pho Quyen. [...]

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:39:58 +0000

I love those steamed buns at Trang. I eat at the Pho Quyen on Hillsborough at Memorial and probably my only complaint would be that they do not have much in the appetizer department. We usually will share an order of salt n pepper squid as an app or split the spicy shrimp and artichoke soup as it is one of the only smaller soups. They have some really good specials at Pho though and even have started serving the snow pea tips in season. If you get the chance you should try their squid stuffed with shrimp in a lemongrass and curry sauce. It is so so so good. But now I am craving those Trang steamed buns…
On a China Yuan note we were there last weekend and had the squid in curry sauce and it was outstanding. We had never had any of the curry there before and it was succulent.
I think you can see my email when I post here so please let me know when you have the next culinary crawl planned and we will come schedule permitting.

(so glad to get some more recs from you Rebekah. They are on the list and they sounds amazing. I’ll be planning the next crawl when the dust settles from a flurry of work… Andy)