In rec.food.restaurants 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).

> -sw

Preparation may vary depending on the choice of ingredients, but in the
actual cooking, you are, again, basically making ramen with higher-quality
ingredients. The concept is the same.