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Street fight: The pho is flying

By Betty HallockDeputy Food Editor 
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It started with: ‘$16 pho? are you kidding me?’

And then all heck broke loose in the comments box.

Street hasn’t even opened yet, but when Eater LA posted chef-owner Susan Feniger’s menus, who knew there’d be a brawl in the town square over everything from whether one should go to Vietnam for one’s pho (’50 cents in vietnam! lets go!’) to the value of bloggers (‘it always cracks me up how bloggers are criticizing before they even taste or have experienced the place/dish’)?

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Heated debate ensued, but things got really ugly by comment No. 19. ... Hello, mediator? I wouldn’t wish ‘eboli’ on anyone.

What a relief when someone showed up soon thereafter (in top hat and bow tie) with: ‘Sounds perfect. Can’t wait.’

Mention of Porto’s potato balls (again) in comment No. 39 seemed to calm things down, though someone was still seething by comment No. 45, and there are still some punches being thrown.

Meanwhile, $16 pho?

-- Betty Hallock

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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