35Golden Turtle

The best pho in town is served at this ungentrified Ossington dive, where huge bowls of pho are built on supernal stock. Classic rare beef pho has big thin slices of tender rare beef atop fat rice noodles, its beef broth made complex with star anise. Chicken pho is sweet strong broth with big pieces of moist chicken and rice noodles. Seafood pho is that marvellous chicken stock with thin egg noodles, barely wilted leaf lettuce and seafood. They garnish it with just-fried browned onion shreds, to great effect. There are pho parlours all over town, but none comes close to Golden Turtle.