Long Phung Combo Meals

Short answer: not as printed sets. You will not find a “Combo A / Combo B” column on the wall photos at 159 Joo Chiat Road. Long Phung runs an a la carte menu of 30-plus dishes, and regulars have simply worked out the combinations themselves over the years. That is how these pages earn their keep: we map the pairings so you can order like a regular on your first visit.

The closest thing to an official combo is the Pho Dac Biet, literally “special noodle soup,” which stacks four beef components into one bowl. Beyond that, the menu has a few natural two-in-one dishes, like the Bun Thit Nuong Cha Gio, which arrives with grilled pork and a fried spring roll on top, a combo in disguise. Everything else is a build-your-own affair, and with no GST or service charge, the menu price is the final price.

The Pho Dac Biet is the one bowl every Long Phung review mentions. “Dac biet” means special, and the special here is the beef lineup: sliced rare beef, beef brisket, beef meatballs, and a raw egg you whisk into the piping hot broth. It is the combo meal of the pho world, and at a reported $11.90 (March 2023 review) it is also the priciest single bowl on the board, worth it for the variety in one sitting.

The two Pho Dac Biet figures, $11.90 and $8.90, both come from 2023 reviews, so the price likely moved during that year. The $7 pho ga figure is from 2016 and has almost certainly crept up since. The broth is the constant across all of them: slow-simmered beef bones, fragrant, and the reason Vietnamese regulars rank this place above the mall chains.

Pho gets the headlines, but the dry noodles and rice plates are where the combo logic really shines. Several of these are two-texture dishes by design: grilled meat plus a crispy spring roll, noodles plus a fried topping, stew plus rice. They eat like combos and price like single mains.

The Bun Thit Nuong Cha Gio deserves a special note: one reviewer found you can add the spring roll to the dry noodle for $1.50, which is effectively a combo upgrade built into the ordering. The spicy beef stew numbers tell the same price-creep story as the pho, $7 in 2016, $11 with rice in 2023.

Since there are no printed sets, here is the regular’s formula: one main, one side, one drink. The table below prices three classic builds using verified figures. These are estimates, not official sets, and the counter price on the day rules.

Sharing works too: a spring roll platter between two people plus two pho bowls is the classic Joo Chiat dinner for two, and it consistently lands under $20 a head with no GST or service charge on top.

Best combo pairings under $15

For two people, split the Spring Rolls and Prawn Platter ($15, 2023) and add one pho each. For one hungry diner, the spicy beef noodles ($7.90) plus a Vietnamese coffee ($4) is the best-value full meal on the board at under $12. And if you are with a first-timer, do the Pho Dac Biet ($11.90) plus coffee ($4): it is the signature experience, and the raw egg trick is worth the small splurge.