what do u vietamese people put in ur pho when u eat it cause i went over to my friends house and they put like a lot of differnt things in it like i put the hot stuff in then some bean sprouts in then some housin sauce then some pepper then like meat and stuff so what do u guys put in it haha stupid question but im wondering

Nouc Maum and red hot sauce .. and lots of salt..

can't go wrong with lemon!

Onion. I'm addicted to onion, but you must cut it thick so that it would be crunchy. Also all those leaves in there too.

salt? never seen thjat in my life.

i put fish sauce, hoisin sauce, hot sauce,limes, not lemons i hate those. bean spouts and other variuos greens like basel and scallions..

^ me either

You guys are not serious? you've never used salt? ever?

Do you put hoisin sauce in your pho along with the salt? because the sauce by itself already has like 1400mg's of sodium

No, I use lots of fish sauce and lots of salt... ... some cheap places have no salt.. then I just double the amout of Nuoc moam.... ------

ahh what about msg? maybe you should replace 1/3rd salt with msg and see how that goes : D

Nouc Maum with Pho?

The MSG is already included --------



All Pho resturants have nuoc maum... just try it next time ......

is pho the only vietnamese noodle?

i think there's boun, er dunno how to spell it but it's like fatter noodles which go with a shrimp pate thing

That's how I eat mine too without the hot sauce and hoisin sauce, and add fresh pepper


Definitely not. We got bún bò Huế, bún rêu, bún than, bún cá, bún mắm.. etc.

no. its just the most famous. i can eat a different bowl of noodle everyday of the week. and thats just the ones my mom makes often. i'm actually a fan of bun bo hue and bun reu, not the typical pho like everyone else. buts its still good!!

I am eating instant pho right now and what i got in there is prawns, pork and some fresh herbs. Basically put anything in that suits your taste.

i put in everything yall juss said...lolzz...and its GOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDD..

BUN REU...my FAVORITEEEEE...bun bo hue also gooood....yummmmmmm...makes me wanna go to pho shizzle noww...dat place is sooooo gooood

instant pho? where can you buy that?

you can buy INSTANT PHO at any asian market...i think...usually they do...like HONG KONG SUPERMARKET..dey selll everryything there..lolz

ah isnt customizing great? lol. i put nuoc mam, hot sauce, celantro (uh spelling??) and onions, lemon or lime, and sometimes i add sliced peppers if i want it spicier, and some other stuff if i feel like it or its available.

I just ate Buon soup today for lunch

so only pho and bun? I only like pho noodles, i dont know why but even though im a Hue, i can't eat bun bo hue, it tastes too oily and it goes down to like my throat when i chew it all the time, and it makes me wanna throw up, but pho noodles is good.

O yea, dont we have something that looks similar to chow mein. Like its yellow but really really thin compared to chow mein, and i think it tastes much much better than chow mein because it isnt oily like chow mein.
Have you ever ate that?

I've had Beef Pho with shrimp and chicken in it before, i thought it was unusual because I've never seen it served that way in any nha hang. Ate that kind of Pho at a friend of mine who is Cham muslim from Chau Doc in Vietnam. Could it be their own style?

Well I don't really know. I think they might serve it with chicken and shrimp in Vietnam. But I know they serve chicken pho here as well.

As for the Chams well most Vietnamese really don't know much about them since there are only around 100,000 left in Vietnam, most Chams actually live in Cambodia. I wonder what Cham people are like though?

O_O shrimp with pho? never had that. I gotta try it sometime...

lolz okay, i think it's time for me to have some lunch. 2minute noodles will do eh.

a well prepared bowl of pho needs not to add anymore "nuoc mam" because the stock itself has been well seasoned. just add a teaspoon full of hoisin and red chilli sauce along with a fresh squeeze of lime wedge and a few slices of fresh chilli pepper plus all the herbs and bean sprouts.

A well-prepared, aromatic "phở" stock would be ruined by the addition of hoisin to the stock or any other additives. Why ? the preparation of "Phở" stock takes hours and hours to cook. The delicacy of it would be dramatically altered with any additives such as Hoisin sauce and the likes except for fresh red pepper, limes, bean sprouts, and herbs. But then again, if your bowl of phở doesn't suit you as is, then you should need to find a phở restaurant that can prepare as such. Remember not all phở places can carry the same phở stock as the way it should be. Even better if it is home-made 'cause you know you can always beef up to the sweetness of the stock.

what you had is not "pho" but "hu tieu" which is originated from the chams people. although the noodles look kinda alike but they are actually not the same. those noodles are called "hu tieu" which are used for "hu tieu soup" while pho noodles are used to "pho soup".