PHO-SHIZZLE! (Pho Bistro...)

[HRNY4ZRNY]

So I ate at Pho Bistro over in Ashburn for the first time.(Vietnamese Food)

I got the Saigon Soup which is really awesome. The red sauce and brown sauce are so good. All the fresh ingredients are great!

The best part about it is its pretty healthy. You feel full and energized after you eat it.

So I was wondering, how can I make my own version of this soup. 8 bucks a day for soup is way to much.

Do any of you bring your own soup to work? What would be a good way to do this? Any feedback would be appreciated!

[China]

Go to an Asian grocery store like H-mart or one of the others and buy the right noodles. You can also get the sauces there. Buy fresh basil (the Asian kind), green onions and bean sprouts. Toss in whatever you want as the protein (beef, chicken, seafood, etc). As for the broth however, I don't know whether you can buy it pre-made or not. To make it from scratch might be a little tricky. From Wiki:

The broth for beef phở is generally made by simmering beef bones, oxtails, flank steak, charred onion, charred ginger and spices. Seasonings can include Saigon cinnamon or other kinds of cinnamon as alternatives (may use stick or powder), star anise, roasted ginger, roasted onion, black cardamom, coriander seed, fennel seed, and clove. The broth takes several hours to make.[13][14] For chicken phở, only the meat and bones of the chicken are used in place of beef and beef bone. The remaining spices remain the same, but the charred ginger can be omitted, since its function in beef phở is to get rid of the "cow's smell"

[HRNY4ZRNY]

Thanks man. Sick and tired of eating lunch meat like balogna and turkey. So boring and puts me in a bad mood. I'll look into this for sure.