How many ways can a bowl of Pho be made? I know of at least 8 because each one I have had has been as different as they were delicious. The best place for a bowl is at Ben Thanh Market where hundreds of vendors flag you down or grope you to take a look at their knock-off Billibong, Vietnamese coffee, fresh produce, snakewine (Vietnamese Viagra) or local unrecognizable pickled objects. Nestled among all these shops are the food stalls where you pull up a little plastic red stool and order yourself a hot bowl of Pho. The Vietnamese speak surprisingly less english then Cambodians, so my strategy is to point to whatever the locals are eating. Aside from the wicked diarrhea, it seems to be working!
Pho
March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Indochina Trip
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1 alejna // Mar 11, 2008 at 8:02 am
It sounds like you have a great strategy for ordering. I’m glad you are getting to try lots of different tasty things. (Too bad about the side effect…)
I’m also amused by the “flag you down or grope you” bit. The market sounds like a colorful place.
2 beth-ann // Mar 12, 2008 at 6:36 am
Grope… who is groping you!?
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