pho

you want some peer reviewed shit???

ILL GIVE YOU SOME PEER REVIEWED SHIT YOU FUCKING COWARD!

if you want to go kill yourself go ahead, but dont come here and try to fucking tell everyone that pho is clean and MSG isnt all that bad. you suck

pho is as risky as any other food -- any restaurant can add msg to any dish if they want. msg is not needed in proper pho. it's in a restaurant's best interest to not kill off their customers. vietnamese are proud about their national dish and pho restaurants here serve to a largely vietnamese-american patronage. there's no reason to add dangerous chemicals. just go away and let us enjoy our pho. we've been warned, etc.

a-head, try the chicken (pho ga), and make sure you add plenty of fixins they give you. and a little sriracha and a little hoisin. or a lot. my first experience with pho was many years ago in dallas, a place called pho huy. a high school friend and i went and tried some, and i got mine with tripe, and bled out of my nose into the bowl (unrelated i think). i didnt like it. the blood made my broth too irony. anyway i gave it another try, so should you!

There have been a shit ton of independent studies about MSG that show it to be harmless in small and large amounts. Most of the sickness people feel is a response to its taste and/or placebo.

  On 1/5/2011 at 7:37 PM, baph said:

Dinglestank, Canada

lol

you can probably ask the pho place if they use msg or not.

most of the places i've gone to have a sign that says NO MSG or something like that. but as you said just ask. i'd eat it anyway.

  On 1/5/2011 at 6:12 PM, asymmetrical head said:

i want to stick with chicken... i think what i had last time was beef and it was bad! i've had other bad experiences with beef at other establishments.

Then you need to stick with Pho Ga (Ga being the Vietnamese word for Chicken). Usually thinly sliced breast meat, cooked well (not in the broth like other beef-based Pho). Trust me - throw in the Jalapenos, the herbs, the mung beans, squeeze some lime over it - it's like the best Caldo de Pollo your Abulea made.

i'm pretty sure joyrex just said he fucked your grandmother

Ay carumba!

Pho in Vietnam is just the most brilliant thing ever, you just sit on a little stool in the street and someone gives you plenty soup for so very little money and then some beer as well and this occurs for every meal of the day with terrific results

  On 1/5/2011 at 8:08 PM, Bubba69 said:

There have been a shit ton of independent studies about MSG that show it to be harmless in small and large amounts. Most of the sickness people feel is a response to its taste and/or placebo.

it's psychosymatic!

  On 1/5/2011 at 9:51 PM, Fred McGriff said:

i'm pretty sure joyrex just said he fucked your grandmother

good, she needed it.

me cago in el pho de su puta abuelita

so it is ox tail soup. that can have some honey, spice, herbs so could be quite similar. wanna try pho tho.

It's not really all that much like oxtail soup.

i've never had oxtail soup but from what i know about it it seems a far cry from pho.

  On 1/5/2011 at 7:42 PM, Fred McGriff said:

proper pho should not need msg. you make the broth with bones and bone marrow, sugar, some fish sauce, and spices. anyone who has ever made stock from bones before knows how rich of a flavor you can get without chunking in msg.

QFT

  On 1/5/2011 at 9:47 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 1/5/2011 at 6:12 PM, asymmetrical head said:

i want to stick with chicken... i think what i had last time was beef and it was bad! i've had other bad experiences with beef at other establishments.

 

Then you need to stick with Pho Ga (Ga being the Vietnamese word for Chicken). Usually thinly sliced breast meat, cooked well (not in the broth like other beef-based Pho). Trust me - throw in the Jalapenos, the herbs, the mung beans, squeeze some lime over it - it's like the best Caldo de Pollo your Abulea made.

Mai's, you eat there right JR? Love that place....

  On 1/5/2011 at 10:44 PM, Atop said:

  On 1/5/2011 at 9:47 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 1/5/2011 at 6:12 PM, asymmetrical head said:

i want to stick with chicken... i think what i had last time was beef and it was bad! i've had other bad experiences with beef at other establishments.

 

Then you need to stick with Pho Ga (Ga being the Vietnamese word for Chicken). Usually thinly sliced breast meat, cooked well (not in the broth like other beef-based Pho). Trust me - throw in the Jalapenos, the herbs, the mung beans, squeeze some lime over it - it's like the best Caldo de Pollo your Abulea made.

Mai's, you eat there right JR? Love that place....

I haven't been to Mai's in awhile... there's a little Pho shop around the corner from where I live that is super cheap, super good, and super fresh.

no but seriously, do you guys ever nut into your pho?

I wanna go back to Ho Chi Minh!!!

Any Londonders know if the Phos in the Kingsland Road Vietnamese area are up to scratch??

Food in Saigon was some of the best.

  On 1/6/2011 at 12:25 AM, Fred McGriff said:

no but seriously, do you guys ever nut into your pho?

into the sriracha bottle, shake, squeeze into pho

I've been a pho tai guy for years but want to upgrade to a little more texture. What would be a little chewier than that? please don't say cock.

penis