pho-king

Noooda Inventions!

Pho ya Pho eating preasha!

The mastah has shown me yet another level to which noodas can be taken. What won't they think up next. Props to Greg M. "M" is pho Mastah! Crick da imaich and id git riddle bigga...

The Embodiment of Pho

These are the things that run through my mind while enjoying pho at Lucky's pho in Mira Mesa Black Mountain Road, just north of Mira Mesa blvd (connected to Lucky Seafood). Daily treat that can't be beat from North County to San Y'sid' ... best pho in the land from Alabama to the DMZ From Hanoi to Houston. The master was preaching these and other great realizations in this morning pre-pho meditations and I thought that I should share the pho-losophy with you...

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Phở for Fighting

When asked about his diet, champion San Shou (kung fu) fighter Cung Le said:

My diet is pretty much the same whether I'm in training or between fights. In the morning I drink vegetable juice: carrots, spinach, beets. In the afternoon it's phở, a Vietnamese soup. For dinner it's usually chicken and pasta or rice. I top it all off at night with a protein shake.

from Inside Kung-Fu, November 2004, p 70, emphasis added

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Say Phở

Greetings all. I just stumbled into your soup bowl and Joshua graciously let me swim around for a while here.

It occurred to me that it ain't easy to say "phở." I realized this when I saw Xeni's post on BoingBoing:

A Vietnamese-American software developer pal once tried to teach me how to say the word properly -- most Americans butcher the word into something that sounds like foe. He told me, "Just say 'fuck' without the 'ck,' but try sort of curl your voice up in pitch and tone a bit at the end." I never got the phonics right, but I still dig the phở.

This got a response:

BoingBoing reader John Horner says, "Whoever told you how to pronounce pho was making it all too difficult. The comma stuck in the side of the O makes it an ur sound and the question mark above it means it's pronounced as a question: "fur?". Imagine yourself as an animal rights activist presented with a fur coat. My wife is Vietnamese, if that helps, and Vietnamese is a bit of a mess orthographically because it was translated from Chinese ideograms into French by a Portuguese guy.

Best of all would be if someone were able to make or find an MP3 file of a Vietnamese speaker saying the word. Does anyone out there have such a thing? Can anyone out there make it?

we wuz robbed

I guess someone beat us to "Phở-King." Hopefully they won't get all pissy. The shirt is definitely k-rad though, and I'd buy a couple if it weren't $21. What's the deal with the $21 hipster shirts all of a sudden? That's just nuts.

Phở-tography

Phở Hoa, 136-71 Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, New York.

Phở L.A.

So there's Pho 79, Pho Bac, and then ... there was Phở Hoa. The other two get these great reviews every now and then, especially 79 (which is my less favorite of the two), but Phở Hoa was always head-and-shoulders better.

Now it's closed, and I fear for my Sunday-morning hungover self without a phở standby in town.

Suggestions, please!

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