In article >, anon says...
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>In rec.food.restaurants Mojav > wrote:
>> Friends have been encouraging me to try a type Vietnamese noodle soup
>> called "PHO". Unfortunately, I had pho for the first time at a Chinese-
>> Vietnamese (I didn't know any better). It was terrible.
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>> My second time having pho was at an authentic Vietnamese. The difference
>> was so great that I now have decided never having pho at a Chinese
>> restaurant.
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>> Why is it that Chinese often imitate Vietnamese food and ruin its
>> reputation?
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>Considering the popularity of Chinese food over Vietnamese, it's more
>likely that a Chinese-Vietnamese restaurant would be Vietnamese imitating
>Chinese. Anyway, pho is basically ramen with higher-quality ingredients, a
>restaurant would have to be pretty bad to **** it up.

A basic hamburger is hard to **** up too, but I give you Hardees.

Actually, there are many ethnic Chinese in Vietnam and Korea. One of our better
neighborhood Chinese restaurants in the Cleveland suburbs is run by Vietnamese.
A Chinese restaurant on Hwy 31W near Ft. Knox where I used to eat is run by
Koreans. You can see them write up the order in Hangul. The food was decent.

I was fortunate enough to live next door to a very good Vietnamese restaurant in
Berea, OH called Minh Anh(?). Their Bun Bo Xao was outstanding, as were their
spring rolls. Their Chinese food was mediocre at best. There's also a very
good Vietnamese restaurant in Lakewood, OH called as a matter of fact, "Pho".
It's a little hole in the wall that used to be an iced cream parlor. Driving
through the north side of Chicago this weekend, I saw a much classier Vietnamese
place also called "Pho".

About the only thing I'd generalize on is that I've never had good sashimi or
sushi in a "Japanese" restaurant run by Koreans. But then I only know of one,
and that's hardly a useful sample set. By contrast, the best Chinese food I've
EVER had was in a Chinese restaurant on a mountaintop in Seoul.

Oh yeah, Hardees sucks no matter where you go....


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