If you’re ready to start eating pho like a pro, pick up a copy of Andrea Nguyen’s The Pho Cookbook and prepare to slurp rice noodles like your life depends on it. Packed with recipes, techniques and advice from all over Vietnam, Nguyen’s newest book is exactly what you need to pump up your beef…
If you're ready to start eating pho like a pro, pick up a copy of Andrea Nguyen's "The Pho Cookbook." Kick it off by learning how to garnish a bowl of pho.
There is no lack of good eats in Vietnam’s booming capital city of Hanoi. It is a metropolis rich in culinary traditions, and many of Vietnam’s most famous dishes are thought to have originated here. The cuisine takes its cues from France, which occupied the country for nearly 80 years, and China, their neighbors to…
Leftover turkey pho is light and refreshing. With long noodles and fresh herbs, this is one bowl of comfort food that won’t put you down for the count.
Despite France’s colonial past, Paris hasn’t always been the place for great Vietnamese food. Recently, that’s started to change, and it’s now possible to find a world-class bowl of pho, as well as other Southeast Asian specialties, at a number of restaurants around the city.The culinary exchange between Asia and Paris over the past decade or…
I've arrived in New Orleans with food on my mind, and MoPho is dishing what I crave: a fragrant, deeply spiced bowl of pho. As I sip my boozy bubble tea, the pièce de résistance arrives. Rich beef-marrow broth swims with rice noodles, house-made head cheese and delicious meatballs that taste just ever so vaguely…
The dishes of France have influenced Vietnamese cuisine in a delicious way. Enter: Vietnamese-Australian chef and TV host Luke Nguyen, whose latest book explores the relationship between these two food cultures and documents the best of the best. Considering those parameters, French onion pho sounds just exactly right. Here I have taken two of the best-loved classic…
“Post that selfie you took with your bowl of pho later tonight. And don’t forget to hashtag it.” That sentence may — ashamedly — be relatively typical banter in today’s world, but several of the words in it were not officially recognized…until yesterday. Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary released its additions for 2014, and three culinary terms…
I ordered pho with a few friends the other night and received, like, five plastic bags packed with fresh herbs we each used a teeny handful of. There was so much basil, mint, cilantro, lime wedges and sliced jalapeños left over. ::dog whistle:: Yoo-hoo! Blenda the Good Witch! (those are all the times I've mentioned…
Necessity is the mother of invention, and a relentless craving for pho is as dire a need as any. Plagued by cravings for the Vietnamese soup dish, New York Designer Omid Sadri created a piece of tableware to keep all your fixings in one place. He's pitching his design — called "Lantern' — on Kickstarter.…
Breaking news! Kickstarter project Pho Life, spearheaded by Seattle-based DJ, hip-hop artist and TOWNFOLK creator Alexei "Saba" Mohajerjasbi, is definitely creating a piece of art you'll want for your kitchen. Or bedroom, quite frankly. Donate a buck or more to this project and you'll be funding not only a talented artist with a cool project.…
I did a smart thing just now. I looked for a photo...er...pho-to first, and discovered a humongous world of pho porn (phorn?) on Flickr. Rather than wax poetic on the aromatic broth of beef bones, star anise, cinnamon, onions and ginger, or praise the fact that chicken pho, pho ga, uses every part of the…
Tailgate Toe-To-Toe picks a weekly NFL game and analyzes the matchup—on the field and in the parking lot. Aside from Brad Pitt’s handsome portrayal in Moneyball and Dave Chappelle’s summation of the Golden Gate Bridge, my knowledge of Oakland is minimal. It’s not as if you ever see anything served “Oakland-style” on a menu. But…