Several folks over on Chowhound are looking for California's best pho, in San Diego and elsewhere. Go over there and help them out!
Make sure you vote for us on Accidental Hedonist's best food weblogs poll - we're in the "themed content" category.
This month's Saveur magazine gave us a nice little writeup - if you're seeing us for the first time as a result of that, please drop us a line and tell me about your favorite pho joints, or I can give you a posting account and you can tell us a bit about the restaurants in your town - and what you've discovered on your travels - yourself!
A quick & easy read by Mai Pham over at the San Francisco Chronicle on pho and the importance of food & family in Viet culture. A recipe is included.
Over at royby.com, you can read about one person's attempt (or rather, walk around the corner - in Saigon, you never seem to have to go any further than that!) to find the world's most perfect phở.
Andrea Nguyen, over at the wonderful Viet World Kitchen, has written a wonderful article for the San Jose Mercury News' Food & Wine section on the evolution - or Americanization - of phở.
VWK, the most complete Internet source on Vietnamese cuisine here in the US, has a whole lot of other great pieces on our favorite food (and a whole clearinghouse section on Viet food in newspapers and magazines), including this wonderful booklet by Sofitel Hanoi chef Didier Corlou.
And if you're cooking Viet cuisine yourself, don't miss her Mama Says section, with great cooking advice from Andrea's experienced cook mom.
Noodle Pie, our spiritual sibling in pho-love, has a great photo-essay on food in Saigon.
Jake over at 8bitjoystick has a good review of one of the newest instances of the Pho Hoa phenomenon in his own neighborhood. There are several Pho Hoa locations in Sacramento, where I live, and all are quite good, but ignore Jake's suggetion to bypass the tendon - we all know that rare flank / brisket / tendon with extra wonton and egg yolk and ridiculous amounts of Sriracha is the way to go.
Our friends at the always entertaining Il Forno love the perfect food as well.
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