How to eat Pho
Now you have a steaming and breathtaking bowl of Phở in front of you-- Lets dig in! The soup begins as a subtle and delicious broth. You can even manipulate your own sensory experience by adding some hoisin sauce to the soup to fine-tune the broth exactly to your specifications, together with fresh basil leaves and plump white bean sprouts for folic acid and calcium. Squeeze a few drops of lime juice for vitamin C. Pour in some chili paste for a spicy taste. If you are still looking for a culinary adventure, add a few slices of green chili pepper. Now you are ready to experience the thrill of Phở using chopsticks.
With your right hand, handle chopsticks to pick up noodles and mixings. Sip broth with a spoon with your left. Our mouth-watering broth will satisfy your taste buds to the last drop. DELISH! For an even more enhanced flavor, ask for some vinaigrette onion with Phở and you will have the most delicious meal of all.
If it's super hot outside, eat a steaming bowl of Phở for a sauna-like purge. If it's freezing cold and overcast, eat Phở to warm yourself up. And if you have a raging hang-over, there's nothing quite like Phở to set you right again. (Since Phở is infused with lots of herbs and spices, it's known for cold remedy when you don't feel well.)
Phở has a large fan base. Its fan base spans across all ages from a ten month old infant to a person over one hundred years old. It spans across all educational levels from Vietnamese farmers to a college professors. It spans across different social status from freedom fighters, prime ministers, labor workers and even to poets. It crosses country borders from Korea to France, from Canada to the USA, to Africa spanning all the way from Egypt to Morocco. Americans now appreciate Phở at its highest level, that means if Phở does not taste like Phở, they know it.
So welcome to the world of Phở!
Enjoy it and you will find that there are plenty of reasons why phở has fans like you and us.