[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip]
On the other hand, it does contain a week’s worth of sodium (or at least I’ve always assumed so).
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Fortunately, I’ve never had a problem with high blood pressure. 
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Pho’s pretty cheap here. I estimate about $5 to $8 will get you as big a bowl of pho as you could eat. I love living in an ethnically diverse area!
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That’s about right price-wise for Houston and Dallas also. If anything, prices tend toward the bottom of that range.
Vietnamese sandwiches are pretty tasty as well, if you can get the real thing.
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That’s about right price-wise for Houston and Dallas also. If anything, prices tend toward the bottom of that range.
Vietnamese sandwiches are pretty tasty as well, if you can get the real thing.
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The place I go to in Belltown (downtown Seattle) sells pho for $6.95, except for the Pho Tom (shrimp, broccoli, boc choi and carrots), which they sell for $8.20.
I haven’t looked for Vietnamese sandwiches. The thing about Vietnamese food is that each restaurant has its own specialty. So when I was working Behind The Orange Curtain we could decide what kind of Vietnamese food we wanted and then choose the place in Little Saigon that did it best. Up here… Haven’t found the Little Saigon area…
Wait. This just in. Coworker reports that there is a largely Vietnamese business district at 12th & Jackson.
Anyway, I had a gristly Vietnamese sandwich down in Garden Grove. So I tend to get non-sandwiches.
[QUOTE=WhyNot]
MikeG, where do I get good pho on the north side, please? And what do I need to know to order it without sounding like a stupid white girl? I’ve never tried it, but from the descriptions in this thread, I must remedy that!
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Tank at the corner of Argyle and Broadway is very good. Just across the street is Ba Le; get their roast pork banh mi sammich, they are fantastic. You can get pate, chicken, and lots of other types as well.
Pho Hoa is in the little strip mall across the street from Furama a block south of Argyle on Broadway - they were the first place I ever had pho and they do a decent version as well.
Try those, tell me what you think and we can move on - those two places are a great palce to start, if you don’t want the pho, try tho goi ga vietnamse chicken salad of cabbage mint, peanuts, onion hot peppers with an addicting dressing of lime and fish sauce, it’s one of my all time favorite meals.
Do Laotians do Pho, too?
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
Don’t call it ‘foe’. (It kind of sounds like ‘fuh’.) Menus in every Vietnamese place I’ve been to have different sections for pho dishes, rice dishes, noodle dishes, house specialties, etc. So just look under the pho section and order by number.
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Actually, you’re better calling it “fur”. It works well with an Aussie accent, but I think Americans and Canadians might possibly need to be conscious not to hit that North American terminal ‘r’ sound too hard. You should be easily understood. Even better if you can do the tone - falling with a slight kick back up at the very end.
In that “best pho in the universe” place I’ve mentioned in this thread and elsewhere on these boards, it’s even easier - they sell nothing else. You can just ask for “one beef” or “one special combination”.
[QUOTE=MikeG]
Tank at the corner of Argyle and Broadway is very good. Just across the street is Ba Le; get their roast pork banh mi sammich, they are fantastic. You can get pate, chicken, and lots of other types as well.
Pho Hoa is in the little strip mall across the street from Furama a block south of Argyle on Broadway - they were the first place I ever had pho and they do a decent version as well.
Try those, tell me what you think and we can move on - those two places are a great palce to start, if you don’t want the pho, try tho goi ga vietnamse chicken salad of cabbage mint, peanuts, onion hot peppers with an addicting dressing of lime and fish sauce, it’s one of my all time favorite meals.
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Thanks! Tonight my Chem class was discussing options for our end of semester celebratory meal next Wednesday, and someone suggested Pho Hoa - maybe I’ll push for that one. (Or suggest Tank instead.)