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If you can imagine beef noodle soup for breakfast, then you decidedly want to try Pho, a Vietnamese dish that has been around for nearly 100 years. I find my site is more and more leaning towards ethnic dishes that are loaded with big, bold tastes, and that make eating what it should be – [...]
You will never find it in a museum but phở is one of Vietnam’s most sacred and tantalizingly beautiful forms of art. Phở is the national dish of Vietnam and can be enjoyed from the northern boarder with China all the way down to the southern tip of Vietnam. Depending on location the experience can be very different [...]
CNN Go, CNN’s travel website, has recently published its top ten list that saw Hanoi as one of Asia’s most impressive cities catering to street food lovers. The top ten voted food paradises include Penang of Malaysia, Seoul of South Korea, Bangkok of Thailand, Fukuoka of Japan, Taipei of Taiwan, Singapore, Manila of Philippines, Phnom [...]
You haven’t experienced wild until you’ve lived in the heart of Hollywood. My little duplex was squished in between movie-star wannabes, the homeless pushing shopping carts piled 8-ft high with trash treasures and gold-chained pimps proclaiming to the world, “GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! Right over here!” The location was by choice and I had a very good [...]
Talking with journalists and admirers, Korean star Song Seung Hun said that he likes “pho Hanoi” and Kim Tae Hee said she likes the Vietnamese ao dai. If she had a chance, Ms. Kim Tae Hee would put on the famous charming traditional clothes of Vietnamese women. Two movie stars from the Republic of Korea (RoK), [...]
The ups and downs of chicken pho, a trilling variation of the traditional beef pho It is no wild exaggeration to say that pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) is a cultural ambassador of Vietnamese cuisine. Together with cha giò (Vietnamese spring rolls), pho is arguably the Vietnamese specialty best known to foreigners. This statement is true [...]
Instead of being a juryman for the annual competition among the most famous Chinese restaurants in the US on January 8, Yan Can Cook appeared at the opening ceremony of a restaurant of his friend in HCM City. The world top chef expressed his love for Vietnamese Pho. Yan Can Cook at a Pho restaurant [...]
Phở noodle soup first appeared in the 1920s, ie it’s less than 100 years old. However, it developed incredibly fast. First, there was only beef noodle soup and it was hawked around the streets. During the 1940s, when there was a shortage of beef, people started making Phở with chicken as they had become addicted [...]
While traveling along the Garden Coast in South Africa, a newly introduced travel partner highly recommended Pho 14. Always on the lookout for a tasty pho dish, if someone living overseas suggests a DC restaurant, I felt obligated to give it a try. Pho 14 is located a block from the Columbia Heights metro on 14th and Park [...]
Pho (proper pronounciation) originated in North Vietnam and is considered by many as the national dish. Impressively, the first Pho restaurant was opened in the 1920s, which helps explain the abundance of Pho restaurants today. In the US, there’s practically a Pho on every corner. Fairfax is no different, and if you’re near the intersection [...]