{"id":1238,"date":"2011-07-26T09:50:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2011-07-26T09:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:50:50","slug":"tycoon-beef-pho-in-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/reviews\/tycoon-beef-pho-in-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tycoon, Beef Pho in Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_1389\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tycoon_pho.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1389\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1389\" title=\"tycoon_pho\" src=\"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tycoon_pho-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tycoon_pho-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tycoon_pho.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beef Pho<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We only have an hour before the client meeting and everyone is hungry.\u00a0 Someone in the group says \u201cI know where we can go\u201d and we follow them into a strip-mall parking lot.\u00a0 The place, Tycoon, does not look amazing from the outside as it has a non-discreet sign and is in a neutral looking strip mall.<\/p>\n<p>We walk in and I am not impressed.\u00a0 The decor appears to be from the 90s and there are pictures of food on the check-out booth by the door.\u00a0 I have a saying about places with pictures of food, but I won\u2019t say it here.<\/p>\n<p>We sit down, order waters to drink, and wait a few minutes for the waitress to show back up.\u00a0 It takes some time but she comes back and I order the Beef Pho.\u00a0 Normally I would not order Beef Pho, a Vietnamese dish, in a Chinese restaurant, but what the heck.<\/p>\n<p>The food takes a long time to come out.\u00a0 Almost an hour has passed actually, but the food does finally arrive. My pho looks amazing.\u00a0 It is steaming hot, with slices of beef on top, and a mound of noodles under a shimmering broth.<\/p>\n<p>I let my soup cool off a bit and dig in.\u00a0 The first sip leaves me with a flavor explosion as the soup has an immense depth to it.\u00a0 The beef, onion, basil, and spices have blended perfectly into a succulent aromatic broth.\u00a0 Everything works and I love it.\u00a0 The beef is very tender and has a lot of flavor to it.\u00a0 The noodles are thinner than I am used to and are cooked just right.\u00a0 I wish I lived in Memphis as the Pho is the best I have had in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>If I am back in town, in the area, I definitely will be back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/50\/541608\/restaurant\/Balmoral\/Tycoon-Memphis\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/541608\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Tycoon on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com We only have an hour before the client meeting and everyone is hungry.\u00a0 Someone in the group says \u201cI know where we can go\u201d and we follow them into a strip-mall parking lot.\u00a0 The place, Tycoon, does not look amazing from the outside as it has a non-discreet sign and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[326,205],"tags":[261,10,167,137,360,359,72,28,457],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-cuisine","category-reviews","tag-asian","tag-beef","tag-chinese","tag-memphis","tag-noodle","tag-pho","tag-restaurant","tag-soup","tag-tycoon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiecuisine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}