MMM Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Pho Nom Nom, out Rockville Pike is a bit of a drive but so worth it. Best Pho around! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtureck Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 1 hour ago, MMM said: Pho Nom Nom, out Rockville Pike is a bit of a drive but so worth it. Best Pho around! Is it Pho Nominal? Sorry, I'll see myself out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curiouskitkatt Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 50 minutes ago, mtureck said: Is it Pho Nominal? Sorry, I'll see myself out. is it open twenty-pho-seven? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 1 hour ago, curiouskitkatt said: is it open twenty-pho-seven? No, and that's why it has a Pho Queue. (This could be explored almost endlessly.) But I swear there was a place in Springfield - possibly owned by an angry Korean divorcée - named Pho Kim. And there was a place in Alexandria named Pho King. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curiouskitkatt Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 1 hour ago, DonRocks said: No, and that's why it has a Pho Queue. (This could be explored almost endlessly.) But I swear there was a place in Springfield - possibly owned by an angry Korean divorcée - named Pho Kim. And there was a place in Alexandria named Pho King. Phoghettaboutit. I actually am not a huge fan of the famed noodle soup, or ramen for that matter. I know, I know. I actually prefer Bánh hỏi, a rice noodle dish with bbq pork & fish sauce. That’s my jam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simul Parikh Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Bun Bo Hue is best Vietnamese soup, hands down. How about... Pho Tha Win?? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curiouskitkatt Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 36 minutes ago, Simul Parikh said: Bun Bo Hue is best Vietnamese soup, hands down. How about... Pho Tha Win?? My mom makes Bun Bo Hue with fatty corned beef brisket. It is unphogettable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simul Parikh Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Hahahah.... You phoking kill me! (I’m here all weekend) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyfood Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 the title of this should be Pho Nom Nom (not Nam Nam) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 I will phocetiously call you guys phonny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pras Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Does a shop named Pho Sho exist or Pho U? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simul Parikh Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 https://www.foodbeast.com/news/the-13-most-creative-pho-restaurant-names-from-around-the-country/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pras Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 29 minutes ago, Simul Parikh said: https://www.foodbeast.com/news/the-13-most-creative-pho-restaurant-names-from-around-the-country/ My absolute favorite on that list is Pho Shizzle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curiouskitkatt Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 A Brief Primer on Pho While Diep Tran serves plenty of things besides pho at Good Girl Dinette, noodle soup is built into her history. Her family members and their shop Pho 79 were among the earliest purveyors of pho in Orange County, California—an area that has since become one of the country’s strongholds of exceptional Vietnamese cuisine. Since even Dave Chang isn’t completely fluent in pho, we thought it’d be useful to give a quick rundown of Vietnam’s most famous culinary export. A very, very, very brief history of pho: At the most basic level, pho is a soup of rice noodles, beef or chicken broth, and your choice of meat. It is a culinary product born from the mingling of Vietnamese, French, and Chinese cooking traditions during the early twentieth century. Pho originates from the area in and around the northern city of Hanoi, where street vendors first popularized it. It has since spread, first to southern Vietnam, then all over the planet with members of the Vietnamese diaspora. Like many of the world’s great dishes, pho has proven to be preternaturally amenable to change. The broth took on a sweeter edge when it reached South Vietnam. During wartime, meat rations led to the creation of chicken pho. Each successive generation of pho-makers incorporates their experiences and tastes. By the time pho landed in America with refugees of the Vietnam War, it had veered quite a ways from a straightforward bowl of noodles. The bowl of pho most Americans know and love is based on an aromatic beef broth, redolent of charred ginger, black pepper, cloves, cinnamon, and cardamom. The noodles are thin and chewy, and the meat has come to play much more of a starring role. You’ll find combination bowls piled with brisket, flank, tripe, tendon, meatballs, and raw slices of tenderloin. Pho in America is almost always served with wedges of lime, bean sprouts, and herbs, and in most shops that don’t specifically identify their pho as northern Vietnamese in style, there’s always a bottle of hoisin and a bottle of sriracha on the table. Shop names: Pho shops often have names that seem inscrutable to the uninitiated, but many are rife with meaning and connections to their owners’ past lives. The numbers you’ll see in many restaurant names (Pho 79, for instance) represent the year that their proprietors left Vietnam. Other times, the number represents a significant date in Vietnamese history, whether it was the ousting of the French or the separation of the country into North and South. Some pho shops are named for other famous shops in Vietnam, or important historical figures. A relatively new naming convention, the pun, has caught on in more recent years. It’s hard to say whether or not places named Pho King and Phobulous are really a step forward, though. Further Reading: In their discussion of pho, Diep and Dave bring up one of the great food writers of our time, Andrea Nguyen, who recently published an excellent pho cookbook that includes a much deeper history and explanation than what we’ve included here. This prompts me to have a bit more respect for pho spots that garner a number than the pun. Just my 2 cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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