Blue Coral - Vietnamese Cuisine

Vietnamese owner of the restaurant
Lobsters are fresh, delicious, and big
Fresh and delicious seafood hot pot. Fish, shrimp, squid, vegetables are all fresh and very delicious.
The best dinner I had in America

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The food was delicious!!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The pho was really good but the calamari was very tough to chew all and all very good server

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Crispy Calamari

TLDR: High-end quality for an affordable price! Every category of their menu has a top notch experience to offer.

This has become our go-to Pho spot this winter season. You can't help but feel all warm & cozy when they set that boiling hot stone pot pho-facial down right in front of you. For the price, the service is top notch with blanched bean sprouts, noodles & rare meats served separately. (Little things you usually have to ask for at other restaurants.) The meats are also *chef's kiss*, with the short rib & ox tail full of flavor and ready to slide right off the bone.

Everything else we've tried on their menu so far has also been 10/10. Their Sizzling Steak & Eggs have the most flavorful sauce, with steak cooked to perfection. The Shaken Beef & Ribeye w Mushroom are also perfectly cooked. We even tried their Seafood Boil, which is amazing. I love that it's served with fried bao, which is a game changer!! The Scallops were juicy, bouncy, and not over cooked. All in all, you can't go wrong with anything on their menu!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

I had a great experience at this restaurant. Their food was great, well presented & served a good portion of meats in my Pho. Highly recommend this place for dates or taking out The Parents for it was very clean and had modern decor.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food is ok, service is ok.. have new experience to try out hot stone

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Clean, modern decor, and good phở soup

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Delicious foods and friendly customers service. Give them a try.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Soft Shell Crab Bao 3, Shaken Beef Noodle

Hot stone pho is a modern vietnamese restaurant in Orange County, California with a variety of seafood and dishes to try!

👉🏼We ordered:
- soft shell crab bao ( must get ) 🦀so crispy!
- hot stone special ( rib eye, tendon, tripe, brisket, beef ball) pho
- hot stone short rice ( HUGE )
- sizzling steak & egg ( filet mignon )
- shrimp & crab glass noodle ( so chewy!! Love this)

Portion is huge so it’s a good deal

Parking: Plenty of parking available

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Vietnamese Steak and Egg

clean, quiet atmosphere, very friendly staff, the Pho was delicious??

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pho

The seafood here is fresh and delicious with a variety of dishes. Fried chicken wings with fish sauce are delicious

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Every time we go to OC, we get to try a new restaurant with my friend, and this time he took us to this "Blue Coral" but actually Hot Stone Pho.
It was a Friday evening, we're are the early birds at 7PM. Not many people here. The restaurant is very nice, the people are very attentive and pleasant. My kids have been in a bad Pho restaurant therefore quite reluctant to try a new one. They would prefer Brodard Chateau that they had before, but they have to try a new one with parents.
They had a special stone bowl of pho, but my daughter just wanted a regular steak bowl of pho because she's didn't want to eat any pho, but nothing interests her in this place. The broth is not tasty, flat and no flavor, the fresh noodles are overcooked, the rare beef is chewy. She left half of the bowl for mom to eat. Glad we didn't order the $20 stone bowl because Pho is only good if the broth is good and the meat is tender.
My son again with bo luc lac (shaken beef), nothing like mom top sirloin beef LOL. He did finish the chewy beef with rice.
For the Adults, we ordered calamari, soft shell crabs, beef salad for appetizers. The kids love calamari, crispy, but not here, the octopus is so hard and chewy although they're crispy, the kids only had one and the rest mom and dad had to chew.
The soft shell crabs still had raw odor from the dead crabs, it's horrid and not crispy at all, the sweet sauce is not going well with these.
Only the beef salad although chewy beef but the sauce and veggies are excellent.
So, I missed the shrimps from Juicy Seafood in Huntsville, I ordered for my wife to try, wow, they come out great garlic butter sauce with a little spice.
My wife wanted to try Mien Xao Cua (glass noodles with crabmeat), this one is so salty and I had to finish it without leaving it undone.
The prices are not very expensive, but the food is extremely mediocre. I think many people like this place because of the special ways of serving the food which we really didn't care for. We care about the taste, the core of the dishes, the quality of the food.
Anyhow, my kids weren't happy. We're not too happy either, but my friend who recommended is happy, that's OK. Everyone has different tastes I guess.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

First time here because a friend recommended, to me the hot-stone pho is pretty good but is a little pricey, we did not like the soft-shell crab, and the beef with yellow rice is very good.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Food was good but service could’ve been better and for some reason they included tip at the end of the bill which felt weird

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 3

Great food! Will definitely come back.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Crispy Calamari, Pho