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PhoHung Vuong Saigon.
The OG Hopkins pho. A white shirt is a dare.
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What people get wrong
Closed Wednesday. Peak lunch has a line. The broth is splashy. Some directories still say cash only. Bring notes as backup. We last walked this on 2026-09-20. Hours move with the week. Checking the shopfront keeps the night easy.
What is Pho Hung Vuong Saigon known for?
Hung Vuong is known for a fast, generous Hopkins pho that still reads as a neighbourhood lunch, not a tasting, in a steel room that kept cooking the original bowl while the street learned how to photograph it.
You walk out of Footscray station onto Hopkins and the pavement is already doing lunch. 128 is a shopfront on the lit spine, not a stall in the Irving hall and not a corner you hunt by vibe. You sit. The room is busy on purpose. Waiters move like they have a train to catch and you do too. Bowls arrive already sloshing. Steam hits your glasses. Lime, chilli, hoisin, a plate of herbs if you asked. The Age, 28 February 2012, joked you would need your reflection in the mirror to finish the beef pho. The steel is still doing that joke. You came for this broth, in this door, not for a quiet date.
Time Out still uses OG in 2024 because the job never changed. English and Vietnamese menus sit on the same table. Spring rolls come with lettuce you actually wrap. Fresh tea is the courtesy, not a tasting note. Service is the sport: you come, the soup lands, you leave heavier. Victoria University still sends students here between Footscray Park and Nicholson for a small bowl that is actually lunch, bean sprouts, Thai basil, a squeeze of lemon. Ask what it costs today. The original is not a founding plaque on the glass. It is a room that kept pouring pho like this suburb still needed it at 12:10, and will still need it at 8.
Phone (03) 9689 6002. Vietnamese and English both work. You eat. You walk. A white shirt is a dare because the soup will find you. Wear something that can take a story home.
What should you order at Pho Hung Vuong Saigon?
You should order pho first, rare beef or the mixed cuts if you came hungry, then taste the broth before you empty the chilli.
The bowl is the sitting. Sliced beef and brisket is the student default on the VU card. Chicken if that is your house soup. Spicy beef if you wanted heat in the stock, not only at the table. Pork with trotters if the board still has it. A small is still a real lunch. That is why this room exists. Dip the slice. Add the herbs after you have tasted what the kitchen cooked. Do not perform toughness for a bird's eye that will still be there in two minutes. The broth is mellow and rich in the 2012 Age copy, comforting, old-school under a modern steel fit-out. Believe the steam more than a score.
If the table wanted crunch, get the spring rolls and wrap them the way Time Out watched: lettuce, the roll, a dip, then back to the soup. If someone refused noodles, grilled chicken, broken rice or a vermicelli salad keeps them in the building. Bun bo Hue is the spice fork if the table was bored of the clear broth. Drink longan or an avocado smoothie if you wanted the Time Out list, or iced coffee if you needed the sugar between spoonfuls. Then walk. This kitchen is pho. Do not make it pretend it is also a bakery.
Eat it at the table. A takeaway bag bouncing down Hopkins is how the herbs die and the fat sets, and then you will tell someone the west is overrated. If you wanted the critic banh mi, that is another door and another hunger. Stay long enough to finish the bowl you ordered.
Hours, payment and queues at Pho Hung Vuong Saigon
Quoted hours from Time Out, 28 October 2024: Thursday to Tuesday 9am to 8:30pm. Closed Wednesday. Victoria University matches that window. Call (03) 9689 6002. Last checked 2026-09-20. Glance at the glass on a public holiday.
Walk-in is the system. Lunch queues exist and then collapse because the floor is fast. Cards are worth trying. Some directories still say cash only. Do not arrive card-only and perform a comedy. Bring notes as backup.
Wednesday is the wasted-trip day. People still walk here from a stale Maps widget and then write a review of a locked door. Nine in the morning is a real sitting. If you wanted breakfast pho before that, this is not that clock. Check the weekday before you promise a visiting cousin the original bowl.
How do you get to Pho Hung Vuong Saigon in Footscray?
You get to Pho Hung Vuong Saigon by walking Hopkins from Footscray station to 128, a street shopfront on the lit spine, not a Leeds corner and not a stall inside the Irving hall.
Read the number. The bakery queue is west along the same pavement. You want 128. If you are hunting an aisle you have not arrived. Tram 82 and the station buses hit the same block. Irving deck if you drove for the market. Hopkins meters if you only came for a bowl. Do not leave soup in a hot car.
At night stay on Hopkins back to the station. This kitchen can run to 8:30pm. Nicholson Mall is not the shortcut. Co Thu Quan at Shop 11-12, 10 Droop is crab noodle soup if you wanted banh canh cua instead of this pho. Different street. Different plate.
What do people mix up about Pho Hung Vuong Saigon?
They hunt this bowl on Leeds, or they come Wednesday, and they miss the Hopkins room that never left.
- 128 Hopkins Street, Footscray VIC 3011 only. Phone (03) 9689 6002.
- Closed Wednesday. Thu-Tue 9am-8:30pm on Time Out and the VU guide.
- Do not wear white. The soup will find you.
- Pho Tam is Shop 1, 7-9 Leeds Street, from about 8am, a different door.
- Banh mi is Nhu Lan at 116. This kitchen is pho.
Questions people ask next
- Where is Pho Hung Vuong Saigon?
- Pho Hung Vuong Saigon is at 128 Hopkins Street, Footscray VIC 3011. Footscray station is the nearest train. It is the Hopkins pho room, not the Leeds one.
- What are Pho Hung Vuong Saigon hours?
- Thursday to Tuesday 9am-8:30pm. Closed Wednesday. Time Out, 28 October 2024, and Victoria University both print that window. Call (03) 9689 6002. Last checked 2026-09-20.
- Is Pho Hung Vuong the same as Pho Tam?
- No. Hung Vuong is 128 Hopkins, from 9am, closed Wednesday. Pho Tam is Shop 1, 7-9 Leeds Street, from about 8am. Same suburb, different street, different clock.
- What should I order at Pho Hung Vuong Saigon?
- Pho. Rare beef, mixed cuts, chicken or spicy beef. A small is still lunch. Spring rolls in lettuce if you wanted crunch. Avocado smoothie or longan if you wanted the drinks Time Out keeps naming.
Where we checked
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Nhu Lan Bakery
The banh mi this suburb names first. The queue is the oven timer.
116 Hopkins Street, Footscray VIC 3011
To's Bakery
Pork buns facing Hopkins. Eat the roll walking.
122 Hopkins Street, Footscray VIC 3011
Co Thu Quan
Crab and tapioca on Droop. The bowl is the room.
Shop 11-12, 10 Droop Street, Footscray VIC 3011