[4][5] Soup options vary depending on the day; varieties include chicken curry, crabflake,[6] fishcake,[7] and turmeric noodle.

Rose VL Deli was named the city's best soup shop in Portland Monthly's 2015 list of the best new restaurants.

[14] In 2018, Eater Portland's Brooke Jackson-Glidden called Rose VL Deli the city's best Vietnamese restaurant.

[1] In 2019, the website's Nick Woo called the cao lầu "iconic"[15] and wrote: "The heady stew of wonderfully contrasting textures and flavors has earned this place many regulars.

[17] She and Mattie John Bamman also included the cao lầu in Eater Portland's 2021 list of the city's fifteen "iconic" dishes and drinks.