Step-by-step directions for how to make the best spoonful of pho-goodness - the Pho-mint method!

materials: 1 spoon, 1 pair of chopsticks, plate of mint (you will have to ask for this), 1 bowl of hot pho, 1 plate of raw meat, 1 plate of white onions, 1 plate of bean sprouts, optional - siracha sauce

preparation: order extra plate of mint and white onions, be sure to ask for your meat raw and on a separate plate, place all extra onions and bean sprouts into your soup

1.) ask for raw meat

2.) place all the raw meat in soup for 1 min -submerge it -  don’t over cook it!  A quality pho restaurant will serve the pho really hot so the meat should cook really fast

3.) take out all cooked meat and place it in a NEW plate - don’t place it on the bloody raw meat plate

4.) take your spoon and place raw meat on spoon

5.) add a big piece of mint, you may need 2 pieces if your mint is small

6.) go into your bowl and add 2 pieces of white onion onto your spoon

7.) add a few pieces of bean sprout

8.) optional - add a dollop of siracha sauce onto the tip of the spoon (some people don’t like to add siracha into the whole bowl because the siracha will overwhelm the entire pho bowl)

9:) dip your spoon into your hot bowl of pho

Share your method! how do you eat your pho? What is your special pho-losophy on eating pho?