Pho is a traditional Vietnamese dish, also considered one of the most typical dishes for Vietnamese cuisine. The main ingredient of noodles is rice noodles and broth with sliced beef or chicken. Also included are spices such as: pepper, lemon, fish sauce, chili, ... These spices are added depending on the taste of each user. Pho is usually used for breakfast, or dinner. Pho is usually beef noodle soup, but also chicken noodle soup.
The broth is generally made with beef bones, beef or chicken and spices including cinnamon, anise, ginger, cardamom, cloves, coriander, etc. The system is made from rice flour, thinned into thin sheets and then cut into strands. Pho always has to eat hot new delicious, however, to get the bowl of pho delicious depends on the experience and traditional know-how of pho.
Perhaps not too exaggerated when Hanoi is the cultural space of Vietnamese cuisine is now known around the world: Pho! Pho can appear in many parts of the world. But, where diners can enjoy the most exquisite Pho flavor, only Hanoi ...
No one knows for sure when pho Hanoi appeared. Only know that the elders of Hanoi, since growing up have known this cuisine in life and also in poetry. And, perhaps, there has never been any food that writers have so much fondness for in their works. Simply because Pho is not only delicious food with adequate nutrition but also contains in it the sophistication of the cuisine of Hanoi.
Hanoi has the highest density of pho in the country. Pho from luxury to temporary appearance on most streets, alleys or even on the street row in Hanoi.
Hanoians can eat pho all day, including breakfast - lunch - dinner - even for dinner. They can eat noodle many times a month, during the year and throughout the past few years, no one in Hanoi has ever said that they no longer want to eat pho. Or if bored pho is just bored for a moment, in a day, two days ... like the angry couple for unknown reasons and soon after wrapped up tear can not leave.
Most noticeable is the morning light, when the air is fresh in Hanoi, in the early breeze, pho flavor with cinnamon smell, odor, cardamom with the characteristic of cow bones wandering around the streets. In Hanoi there are countless delicious dishes for breakfast, but perhaps, the choice of the majority is still for pho. That food is not expensive, warm stomach, easy to eat, good quality.
Early in the morning, there is nothing like walking around the street and turning to the noodles and the salesman quickly hand out a bowl of pho noodles with soft flesh pink brown on thinly sliced noodles Long, brittle in the green color of onions and basil and bright red of sliced chili thin ...
If it is too busy to miss lunch or mid afternoon, then a bowl of chicken noodle with lemon fragrant leaves will open up before the eyes of the guests a paradise. There is nothing like the feeling of happiness at the last minute, the craving for satisfaction, the satisfaction of eating people do not hesitate to bowl the "paradise" enjoy the last drop of water.
At night, when the dinner has shrunk, Hanoi's nightly eating habits begin to wake up and urge people to go down the street to visit the fragrant rice noodles are still light at the end of the street.
Hanoians always go away, remember the incense, nourishing milk flowers ... remember the skin that caught the moment the smell of water in a cold winter afternoon in the street.
