Pho Bo Ga Mekong Vietnam

About Us

Long-running Swanston Street pho house a block from Melbourne Central, trading under the full signage Pho Bo Ga Mekong Vietnam while city directories shorten to Mekong Vietnam. Founder Yin Choi Lam arrived in Australia in 1986 and built the restaurant into a CBD institution; CBD News (May 2026) profiles his two-decade Tertiary Scholarship Fund tied to the venue. The mirrored, no-frills dining room serves fast counter pho with free hot tea, shared tables, and wall photos of celebrity diners — Live2Makan (Apr 2024) still finds long queues at lunch. Bowls run oversized: Uber Eats lists dozens of pho combinations from sliced rare beef and beef special through chicken drumstick and the loaded Ta Pin Lu bowl with pork blood jelly. What's On Melbourne also highlights broken rice with char-grilled pork chops and vermicelli with fried chicken or spring rolls. Dine-in ordering commonly uses table QR codes; pickup and delivery via Uber Eats. The venue's public web presence is the JuisyFood-hosted page linked from its Facebook About section (phobogamekong.juisyfood.com); there is no separate owned-domain site — mekong.au is an unrelated Launceston restaurant.