To all you noobz out there livin under rocks, phở (pronounced "fuh") is a Vietnamese soup dish made with slices of thin beef, rice vermicelli noodles, and several hours prepared broth.
The way you do it is simmer the broth with chicken bones, steaks, onions, spices, and other stuff for like 4-5 hours. After that is done, you take the noodles and boil them with salt for about 10 minutes to make that thin and soft texture. Always add the sliced meat on top of the noodles before preparing to shower it with the broth. It doesn't matter if the meat is a little rare, as the broth has been specialized to turn it brown in a matter of seconds. Then you can add any other condiments, i.e. green stuff or onions. When the soup is on the table, usually people add spicy red Sriracha and black Hoisin sauce to the bowl, which enchances the flavor. Mix up your soup, and you have a perfectly great dish to dine on. Of course, there are more extras that you can add to the dish, like a little bit of lime or some bean sprouts. It depends on what you want to eat, but either way, phở still stands victorious, and will satisfy even the hungriest of men!
Michael Toppa recently ate at Com Pho in Tokyo, which serves a "highly bastardized" phở - not bad, but not strictly phở. It's sad, but Japan just doesn't have enough phở restaurants that it needs. Surely we need more chefs and cooks to migrate there and make the recipies slowly integrate into the Japanese culture.
"It’s been a long time since I’ve written a pho review. I have a backlog of a few I’ve been meaning to write (two more in Philly and one in San Mateo), and hopefully I’ll get to those soon. But for now I’ll weave my talk of pho with my ongoing talk of Tokyo. Pho is not easy to find in Japan. While the Vietnamese diaspora in Tokyo is big enough to sustain at least a few Vietnamese restaurants, you usually need to go to a specialty shop to get good pho. Thanks to the dazzling pho-king site, I was aware of at least one pho restaurant in Tokyo. Unfortunately, I never made it there - it would have been an excursion to get there from where we lived, and it just never made it to the top of the list. But I did stumble across the Com Pho stand in the basement of the Marunouchi Oazo shopping center, located across the street from Tokyo station. Com Pho is a chain with four locations in Tokyo, but I haven’t been to the others."
As you can see though, phở is an international phenomenon. No matter where you are, as long as there are chinatowns and asian minority regions, a phở shop is bound to be found. Being as one of our most treasured skills, a chef of phở has the knowledge and experience equivalent to te ancient old masters of the martial arts. Even today, they fight an epic battle to preserve the magnificent culture that is asian. This here, is what a modern day phở shop is:
To Crik and Vidad, this was the Florida shop i was talking about :3
To Crik and Vidad, this was the Florida shop i was talking about :3
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