Before I went to C’om, I never had any real Vietnam food. C’om is a quite small restaurant. I would never find it if I wasn’t brought there by someone else. It is located at 4005 Buford Hwy Ste E. Atlanta, GA 30345, at the corner of a plaza.
C’om is a small but clean and neat restaurant. The walls are lined almost exclusively with a series of portraits featuring the same stoic looking Asian females with various positions. I really love their music selection! They were playing Top 40 with some nice remixes.
In C’om , you can get the most well known Vietnam food, pho. It is a kind of light flavored noodle, cooked by boiling the noodle and bean sprout in hot water for just a few seconds, adding coriander, green onion, onion, mint, hot pepper, and meat in it. Hot soup is poured on everything at last. The soup tasted a little bit spicy and sweet. I could also taste the freshness of the materials since they were cooked just by the high temperature of the soup. C’om has all kinds of phos, such as shrimp pho, chicken pho, beef pho and lobster pho. I tried both shrimp and lobster phos. If you like seafood, I recommend shrimp pho since it is cheaper. Also the shrimps were really chewy and go well with the soup. The way of cooking food just by the heat of soup reminds me of one of my favorite Chinese food, Yunnan rice noodle. It comes out with a big stone bowl with hot soup and all kinds of raw material, such as sliced meat, raw quail eggs, vegetables and rice noodles. People use quail eggs and really thin sliced meat to make sure that they can be fully cooked only by the heat of the soup.
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