Vietnam
Photo: SerraKnightz, CC BY 4.0, croppedPhở
Recording: DHN, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- When
- BreakfastLunch & dinner
- Taste
- SavoryFresh
- Made with
- BeefRice
History
Pho appears in records only in the early 20th century, in the north of Vietnam. The usual account places its birth in villages around Nam Định and then in Hanoi, at a time when French colonial demand made beef more available and Chinese and French influences mixed in the markets. Hawkers carried the broth on shoulder poles: beef bones simmered for hours with charred onion, ginger, star anise and cinnamon, poured over flat rice noodles and thin slices of beef. After 1954 many northerners moved south and brought pho to Saigon, where it gained herbs, bean sprouts and sauces. Refugees later carried it around the world.
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