1 year ago
fuck yeah pho on rare beef!
1 year ago
We always give grace to the pho gods in the kitchen before we eat. This time we gave grace to Pho Ca Dao in San Diego- the best pho restaurant in the USA.
1 year ago
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?
2 years ago
The best way to finish your bowl? Pick up your LARGE bowl, get your face lost in it and sip the last drops of broth out.
Then rub your tummy in proudness that you finished your broth unlike those other pho-amateurs who dare leave broth in their bowl and think that they finished. Forgive the lord for they are pho-amateurs, they do not know better so do not send them to hell.
2 years ago
Real Phonatics eat their meat RAWwwwwrrrrrrrrrrr
2 years ago
Siracha swirls in my pho bowl take away the quarrels in my soul.
(thank you Jessica!)
2 years ago
Even Pandas love Pho.
2 years ago
WHAT WHAT Nothing warms my Pho-Loving Heart than finding Pho Coupons to my fave Pho place in the USA - check out these Pho Ca Dao coupons from the Money Mailer! HAWWWT! Gonna go get my pho on now!
2 years ago
Damn we love Pho Ca Dao! Thank you for being the best Pho restaurant with the best waiters!
Part of the magic in eating pho is having a GREAT waiting staff that appreciates the special ways that my friends and I eat pho. We don’t just ask for 5 bowls of pho.
we have particular requests, some bowls with no noodles, some bowls with just a little bit of noodles. and that’s just the beginning.
we also request a plate of vegetables for EACH bowl, 2 plates of vinegar onions, 2 full bowls for cilantro, 1 plate of mint and half-way through hot broth refill. That’s just the tip - there are so many other little requests that any 2nd rate waiter would kick us out of the restaurant and call every pho establishment in the country and across Vietnam to ban us from ever entering. But no. Pho Ca Dao’s waiters have always been kind, loving, and patient. That’s why we tip them so well. We love Pho Ca Dao! if you want the best Pho in the US - this is the place man! And this is coming from foodies. You are looking at some of the best pho experts in the country. Between the 5 of us, we all have lived or currently live in NYC, SF, DC, LA, and etc - and really we have not found a pho place that beats Pho Ca Dao.
So to find your pho place - make sure you get waiters who NEVER make you feel bad for being a Pho loving basil bean sprout bunny freak! But Always remember to finish everything that you ask for and to tip well!
2 years ago
My awesome friend David, who runs Culture of Soccer, wrote an entire essay about my pho eating abilities! I like to think that I’m the kind of person who inspires people to eat and to eat with love till your tummy expands full of bursting love bubbles. Some people invent things, some people save the world - I inspire people to eat! Here’s a picture of Pho Baby that David refers to in his essay about ME!
An Essay About Tricia Wang, The Pho Eating Champion
by Sir Dr. David Keyes, Expert Phoysics Analyst
Tricia Wang is a pho eating champion. Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut may wow us with their hot dog eating abilities, but that’s just speed and quantity. They both lack what Tricia’s eating has in abundance: style.
Tricia knows everyone who works at Pho Ca Dao. And it’s a good thing that she is able to win them over with her unique brand of charm because otherwise they would look at her like the crazy pho lady that she is. It would behoove Pho Ca Dao to put in an alert system notifying its staff of Ms. Wang’s arrival because her pho consumption may require the use of a separate kitchen. More on that in a minute.
First, you should know that Tricia wears a bib when she eats pho. She may be crazy but she keeps her clothes clean.
Second, you should know that Tricia likes to order #18 large with less noodles and meat on the outside. (Oh yeah, she also likes to order spring rolls with shrimp, but who cares really? You ever seen a blog called Fuck Yeah Spring Rolls! Yeah, me neither.) But the really amazing thing is what she does with all the fixings. I don’t know exactly how many plates of basil, bean sprouts, mint, onions, and cilantro she orders, but more than you think can fit in her bowl of pho. Seriously, folks, huge quantities of this stuff. And then she just heaps it into her bowl. Fortunately, the green stuff shrinks in the hot water (which also cooks the meat as she adds it), leaving her room to add more. And more. And more. And more. Did I mention she likes to add a lot of vegetables?
Tricia is not a fast eater. In fact, she’s quite a slow eater. She savors her pho. She searches for new pho puns (it’s getting progressively harder to come up with new ones). She comments on other people’s pho eating prowess. She adds more vegetables. She runs out of vegetables. She asks for more vegetables. She adds more vegetables. And she keeps eating.
Tricia complimented me for the similarly slow pho-eating pace I employ. But soon compliment turned to insult as I committed a huge pho (10 points for me!) pas: I added more vegetables to my bowl than I could eat. Tricia’s level of indignation only rose when I told her that yes, in fact, I was finished and would not be eating the rest of the cilantro I had added to my pho. “Well then why did you take the cilantro?” she asked, annoyance dripping from her tongue. I had no answer.
But things did not end badly. Any pho trip with Tricia has a “happy ending:” Tricia’s pho baby. It’s like watching one of those time lapse videos of plants growing; in the course of a meal, you get to see her stomach expand before your very eyes. By the time her bowl is empty, Tricia has quite the baby bump. Walking to cashier yesterday after our pho adventure, she turned to me, looked down at her belly, and said, “how many months?” Four at least, I’d say.
It’s a good thing that, as Tricia herself puts it, “my stomach is very expandable.” Without that, the pho experience with Tricia Wang would not be what it is today: un-pho-gettable.
