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
It is very important to wear proper eating technology devices, such as paper napkins to cover your lavender silk dress from the excited splashes created by PHO eating. If not you could possibly leave with a shirt that says more about your PHO than it does about your eating practices!
Tricia and {pussy power} (via SOFTSERVEGIRL)
2 years ago
Sociological Analysis of Phở Name Significance: Why Do Phở Restaurant Names Usually Involve Numbers?
Serious Eats has posted another great Phở analysis. Thanks Erin Zimmer for this piece! please write more phở posts!
Once you get past the pronunciation of phở (“fuh” instead of “foe”), the next question might be, why the obsession with numbers? What does the delicious Vietnamese brothy soup (with rice noodles, bean sprouts, lime, heaps of cilantro, and usually some meat strips) have to do with numbers? This thread over on Reddit.com clears it up:
Oftentimes they’re lucky numbers. “In some Asian cultures, eight is associated with wealth or prosperity. Repetition is considered desirable (Olympics started 8/8/08). Or to mark a date in Vietnamese history, or the owners’ personal life.” For example, Phở 67 could stand for 1967, the year the owner fled Vietnam during the war. The Phở 75s of the world are probably honoring 1975, the year Saigon fell.
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Phở Đuôi Bò (Vietnamese Noodle Soup with Oxtail)
How to Make Vietnamese Beef Broth, Part Two: The Phở-low Up
Phở Bo, An Unfussy Phở RecipePho 14 in Washington, DC. [Flickr: Mr. T in DC]
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!
