Phở

The next two popular — or should I say available — jobs for Vietnamese people who just migrated to the US were to work at phở restaurants or food supermarkets, and that’s exactly what I did. I applied to be a chef at a phở restaurant.

Add the phở spice bags into the soup base.

In 1975 refugees fleeing Vietnam introduced phở to North America and made it so popular there that now there are more than 2,000 phở restaurants in the United States.

Today, the website Phở Fever lists over 3,000 phở restaurants in the U.S.

Though there is no downtown or central shopping district to mark the area’s distinctiveness, the abundant phở restaurants, taquerias, and ethnic supermarkets in the area’s strip malls hint that Berryessa does not conform to antiquated stereotypes about the “burbs.”

They walked around for almost one hour before finally finding one phở-style deli.

Guards brought him lukewarm phở, soup with stringy greens and various scraps of meat, fat, and vegetables.