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!
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.
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.
You can count on the best restaurants in San Diego to serve you nothing but the most delicious dishes this side of California.
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