Pho

Wilson looks forward to ordering takeout from his favorite pho restaurant.

HSBC bank dubbed it “Pho’nomenal Vietnam,” a reference to the iconic noodle soup, in a report last week that said it is the only economy in the region that will grow in 2020.

Vietnam’s cuisine is becoming a popular cultural trend in the U.S. as a growing number of Americans acquire a taste for the savory beef soup called pho. The slow-cooked dish might follow the path of Italian pizza, Mexican salsa and Japanese sushi — to be enjoyed across America. As VOA’s Jim Randle reports, President Obama’s planned visit to this former wartime enemy is bringing new attention to all things Vietnamese.

Do you know Pho, a very famous dish in Vietnam?

Hai's older brother has a pho restaurant in Dan Phuong.

PHO is the name of an Annamese soup held in high esteem. It is made with beef, a veal bone, onions, a bayleaf, salt, and pepper, and a small teaspoon of nuoc-man, a typically Annamese condiment which is used in practically all their dishes.

2003: Frank Browning, "73106: Lemongrass on the Prairie", National Geographic, vol. 203, issue 3 http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0303/feature6/ Ten minutes away from the intersection, the heart of Little Saigon, you can easily walk to five restaurants specializing in pho (the classic Vietnamese beef broth soup), two Asian supermarkets, and several Chinese barbecue cafés.

'She is come!' said the old gentleman, laying his hand upon his heart. 'Cormoran and Blunderbore! She is come! All the wealth I have is hers if she will take me for her slave. Where are grace, beauty, and blandishments, like those? In the Empress of Madagascar? No. In the Queen of Diamonds? No. In Mrs Rowland, who every morning bathes in Kalydor for nothing? No. Melt all these down into one, with the three Graces, the nine Muses, and fourteen biscuit-bakers' daughters from Oxford Street, and make a woman half as lovely. Pho! I defy you.'