In article , Steve Wertz
wrote:

On 18 Dec 2003 09:02:36 GMT, anon wrote:

Anyway, pho is basically ramen with higher-quality ingredients, a
restaurant would have to be pretty bad to **** it up.

Pho is *not* ramen. Not even close. Traditional pho is much more
complicated to prepare and things can and do go wrong. A bowl of pho
takes no less than 7 hours to prepare (most of that time being the
stock).

Pho noodles are closer to Japanese udon than to Chinese ramen noodles.
Big thick chewy things wholly unlike ramen. Ramen are thin spindly
things. And the broth is different and the ingredients are different.
And the side-plate of salad ingredients to be added are different. To
be fair, the long cylinderical aspects are the same! And it's soup!

It's kind of like saying that pho is basically spaghetti. "Anon" should
try some pho some time.

Nevertheless I've had pho at maybe 40 different places and I've yet to
run into anything that could be considered "bad". But then it wasn't
exaclty a soufle or anything.

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