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What is Pho?
Pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup, usually served with beef or chicken. The soup includes noodles made from rice and is often served with Thai basil, lime, bean sprouts that are added to the soup by the diner.
The origin of Pho is uncertain, and is mostly culled from oral histories. While a distinctly Vietnamese dish, Pho has French and Chinese influences. Still, the consensus among academics, diners and restaurateurs is that it originated in the early 20th century in northern Vietnam. The specific place of origin appears to be southwest of Hanoi in Nam Dinh province, then a substantial textile market, where cooks sought to please both Vietnamese (with local rice noodles, of Chinese origin) and French tastes (cattle before the French arrival being beasts of burden, not frequently sources of beef). It was first sold by vendors from large boxes, until the first phở restaurant was opened in the 1920s in Hanoi.
The origin of the word was one subject in a seminar on pho held in Hanoi in 2003. One theory advanced there is that the name comes from the French feu (fire), as in the dish pot-au-feu, which like pho uses the French method of adding charred onion to the broth for color and flavor, one of the techniques that distinguishes it from other Asian noodle soups.
Some observers believe pho may come from the Cantonese rice vermicelli hofan (河粉), which are interchangeably abbreviated as either fan (粉) or Ho (河), the two sounds giving the name “pho”. Both fan and pho refer to the same rice noodles found in Vietnam and Guangdong, China, suggesting rice noodles may have been brought to Vietnam by Cantonese immigrants from the Guangdong province in the early 20th century.
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