hey viet fan here 🤚🏼 i was honestly hesitant to watch the vid hoping to avoid seeing a channel i admire mess up some of my own culture especially with current events it’s small and yes the pronunciations were well- far from correct, i really feel humbled and appreciate the effort to still honor as best you could with them rather than the alternative of just outwardly saying americanized pronunciations. the effort matters and it was seen also this is my first ever youtube comment so eep
Pho was the first dish I fell in love in regards, vietnamese food. Then, spring rolls and currently, vermicelli salad bowls. Vietnamese cuisine, is so refreshing my mouth waters just thinking about it.
If you ever want to get adventurous look for Bun Bo Hue that's an amazing party in your mouth. Then there still Ban Xeo and I'm sure you have had a banh mi before.
I always like to order phở đặc biệt, the special phở at every restaurant If possible, I also request to have bánh tươi, literally translated as fresh noodles, but typically served as wider noodles I also add nước béo, a fatty soup, ordered on the side but added to the soup as you find fit and ofc, the all the veggies and some sriracha unlike my fellow mỹ con, however, I don't like adding hoisin sauce to my soup or even to dip my meat in As a Vietnamese American I found this video very interesting! Well done 👏🏽 👏🏽
Thanks for the kind words, and for the additional phở info! Didn't know there were that many options (although maybe best to leave the expert level moves to those who speak the language!).
Beef pho is my fave, light on the basil, heavy on the cilantro and sliced jalapeños. The feeling afterwards is like a tranquilizer and pain reliever (from the capsaicin in the peppers) combined with a soothing, restorative balm (from the vitamin, mineral, and nutrient rich broth). And it is absolutely delicious. If I'm eating my occasional bowl of pho, you could plan multiple offensives in the next room and I would be too focused on the intensely delicious experience of the pho to even notice.
I'm a vegetarian (but I don't make a thing about broth) so I get the vegetable pho at my local restaurant. They put a good amount of veggies in it and it comes with garnishes so it's really nice even without meat. I tried it again recently and I think I actually like the broth better without adding the lime to it but I'm learning to like the bean sprouts and the other garnishes.
About 3 years ago Domino's introduced a pho pizza which was a disaster. They said it was the worst thing to ever happened to pizza since pineapple. But I like pho southern style.
Best way to eat pho is with basil cilantro sliced raw onion and most important to add big spoon full of hot chilli oil fresh lime hoisin sauce and sriracha. Bam!!!! Its heaven
I like a swirl of siracha, swirl of hoisin, about 7 basil leaves stacked, twisted and pulled apart, bean sprouts and juice of two lime wedges. Pho so good!
I LOVE pho! Unfortunately, I now live in rural SE Nebraska. There is no pho restaurant anywhere near. I can only get it when I visit the kids in Kansas City.
The chef at one of Atlanta's best (and alas, closed) Pho restaurants was working on a cookbook with a publisher in Taiwan. Everything went great until the photoshoot with her Pho. A travesty. It looked nothing like Pho! She asked me to get in touch with the publisher and see what I could do. Long story short, we got a reshoot, the Pho looked great, and I got an autographed copy of the book. That was before Pho really exploded on the food scene, and I've considered it (and its many variations) one of the world's greatest soups ever since.
Just thought I'd say I'm impressed with your pronunciation! Doesn't have the accent of a native speaker, but much much better than other attempts I've heard to the point where I could look away from the screen and still get an idea of what you were saying
I am sceptic that "pot au feu" is the origin of pho for 2 reasons : - oldest vietamese generations don't revendicate that pho come from "pot au feu" or french colonization - when you ask a vietnamese to prononciate "pot au feu", he doesn't prononciate "pot au phở", beacause the sound "eu" in "feu" exists in viet language, so a viet can easily prononciate "feu". The sound "eu" in vietnamese is the letter "ơ" like xanh lơ (bleu), súp lơ (chou fleur), bơ (beurre). So to say "beurre" (french word which means butter), vietnamese doesn't prononciate bở, but bơ.
One thing that everyone should be able to easily fix when pronouncing Vietnamese is the 't' like in "tet", it is pronounced with a 'th' sound, so it would sound like "theth". If you're questioning why, blame the Portuguese, it was their monks that made that alphabet/translations, then the French for forcing it.
Most food in VN is relatively healthy and low calorie. With the introduction of McDonalds, Burger King, Dominos, KFC in VN, obesity there has really taken off.
What's the reason behind pho places all being named "Pho 79" or "Pho 75" or "Pho 73" etc? I noticed they're all in the 70's. Is this considered lucky or something? What's the number signify?
Nice board game shelf, I would definitely hang out! While probably not traditional, I prefer chicken pho. My Chinese friends have helped me use chopsticks better.
Yes that’s true. There is another word bánh phở can be considered as the full form to describe rice noodle. But like other languages, Vietnamese tend to shorten word and what’s funny is that if you say “I want some phở” people can both understand that you want either a bowl of rice noodle with soup or just plain rice noodle. So the best is to specify after the word phở which meat or cooking style you want.
@@fatngx Tell me, is Westminster, Calif. Little Saigon the only place that names a lot of their restaurants Phở 54, Phở 79, Phở 2000 and the like? There was one place I could never pronounce correctly, Phở Quien. People got uncomfortable when I started abbreviating it Phở Q. (By the way, I stole the "ở" from your post. ;-)
@@JimFortune yupp that’s one cooking style I was mentioning. Phở chiên means fried rice noodle. The Ch is the same pronunciation as the Ch in Beach or Challenge. Hope that helps :)
Before southeast asia it was cambodia until the 12 century than all the other asian came about. France did not inspire most of the asian food it was the other way around. CHINA influencë alot of south east asian cuisine Esp noodles and south east asian influencë rice to china.
