Vietnamese Cuisine

Pho (Vietnamese soup)

Cuisine: Vietnamese Created by Angie Hong

Pho (pronounced fahr) is a light, fragrant soup eaten for breakfast and all through the day. It is a most loved dish by the Vietnamese. The secret lies in the quality of the stock. Angie uses a combination of marrow bone, oxtail, brisket and a boiler chicken along with cinnamon, star anise and cardamom pods. But her secret ingredient is dried sandworm!

Pho is comfort food for chef Luke Nguyen, who demonstrates how to make pho in Hanoi. You might also like Phil Lees's speedy chicken pho recipe.

Ingredients

Marrow bone
Oxtail
Brisket
Boiled chicken
Cinnamon
Star anise
Cardamom pods
Dried sandworm

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Preparation

Once the stock is made, Angie blanches rice noodles in boiling water and places them into deep serving bowls. Arrange very thin slices of beef on top and a mixture of chopped coriander and green shallot, white onion and finely sliced jigsaw coriander leaves. She then ladles over the hot stock.

To eat Pho, Angie recommends that you taste the broth then add lemon juice, basil, bean sprouts and chilli to taste.

Vietnamese Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 273 Vietnamese Restaurants.

Restaurant		Suburb
1.	Le Bich	Balmain
2.	Thy Thy 1	Richmond
3.	Kinh Do	Macquarie
4.	Pho Phu Quoc	Dickson
5.	Tu Do	O'Connor
6.	Phi Yen	Northbridge
7.	Viet Hoa	Perth
8.	Vietnam Restaurant	Pennington
9.	Green Papaya	East Brisbane
10.	Binh Minh	Richmond

15 Feb 2012 01:27 AEST

susan

susan33@yahoo.com

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24 Oct 2010 03:11 AEST

Vietnamese Girl

Bankstown

Sandworm?

Before we start making rude comments about whether people have brain cells or not let's remember this is a forum that invites people to share their opinions about the recipe featured and not a forum for mindless bullying. Sandworm is by no means an ingredient traditionally used in pho, which is a vietnamese receipe. As common as sandworm may be in receipes elsewhere around asia it is not so in vietnam. And is cat and dog popular in vietnamese recipes too? Was that information found on google too

25 Aug 2010 09:56 AEST

Matt

London

Recipe is good!

I think the author of the comment below is obviously short of brain cells... a quick search in google shows that dried sandworm is indeed used for consumption in parts of Asia. Besides, anyone who has smelt dried shrimp (as used extensively in Thai cooking) will think no thing can be any worse on the nose. I'd rather eat dried worm than dog and cat. Keep up the good work Angie and Maeve!

21 Jul 2010 01:01 AEST

Hater of this ridiculous recipe

2000

Bad recipe is bad

I love pho, n I think for the sake of 'being a spectacular n out there cooking style, u r freaking insulting the Vietnamese food, especially pho. God, we might be 3rd world country, but we have never freaking use sandworm in our soup. For all those who use these recipes, pls use ur brain n judgements to c that they've conned u >_>

30 Jun 2010 09:06 AEST

Tommi

St Albans

WOW

Like the the real thing from a Gongut restaurant. My Vietnameise friend make a version with spicy sausage. he calls it gongut soup

28 Apr 2010 09:31 AEST

Anita

St Albans

Sandworm

You don't need to have sandworm to have a sweet pot soup as it just make the soup sweet.By the way,you can use MSG and rock sugar insteads of sandworm.I wear notthing different between them. Everybody has the different tastes and ways of cooking so please don't try to compare PHO between this restaurant and others.Just go for whatever you love as no one know how the orginal Vietnamese noodle soup is like these days even Vietnamese seriously!!!

24 Apr 2010 08:50 AEST

Nguyen Ngoc H. Yen

hcm

New way to enjoy Pho

That's a great Pho recipe. I LOVE Pho but I no longer have to labor for my love since I discovered this great company called Star Anise Foods that make these incredible Pho kits that's all natural and organic, and using a family recipe from Nam Dinh where Pho came from. You must try them! It takes 15 minutes and it comes out tasting wonderful every time I make it. I got mine off Amazon.com, just search for Happy Pho, but you can also get them in CA stores http://staranisefoods.com/find-us.as

20 Nov 2009 07:52 AEST

rene principe

philippines

dried sandworm

If by chance you are in the Philippines, email me so I can share to you some of my dried sandworms. We have lots supply of these sandworms in my place in here. I will reserved some for you if you email me before coming here. . . try eating it raw soaked in vinegar and a little soy sauce and mixed with (garlic and onions -- optional), it is good appetizer and viand as well.

12 Dec 2008 06:22 AEST

Dan

Strathfield

Sandworms

All, You can find dried sandworms on the rocks at the beach. Silly little buggers.

28 Oct 2008 04:06 AEST

Miranda

Camberwell

Sandworms

What exactly is dried sandworm and where can I find them?

22 Oct 2008 12:49 AEST

Stuart Leamer

Winchelsea

Help me

Where the heck can I find Dried Sandworm I have tried Asian grocers and even though most where owned by Vietnam expats no one knew what I was talking about I have been making "Pho" since the sixties, after service and eating lots of pho at DaNang, there always seemed as if something was missing?? maybe it is the dried sandworms, Cheers Stuart

09 Oct 2008 10:22 AEST

susan

summer hill

Pho-tastic

I love making and eating Pho. Great show guys.

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