/ck/ - Food & Cooking

So I've always wanted to try pic related but I could never make it until now cause

1- I didnt have the main ingredients aside from the spices cause they are hard to find where I live. I didnt have rice noodles and fish sauce and the butcher shop around doesnt sell bones.

2- It would use too much time and gas to make the broth the traditional way

I would satisfy my craving for beef noodle soup by replacing rice noodles, fish sauce and bone broth for spaghetti, soy sauce and beef stock (I would also not follow the traditional ratio of ingredients and would add a bigger amount of spices than the recipe asked for the amount of water). However, I've always read everyone talking about how delicious pic related is and how nothing compares to the traditional broth, so I ordered fish sauce and rice noodles from an online asian store and managed to get the bones so I could finally make pic related today. I didnt simmer the broth for 24hrs but for around 4 hours instead in a pressure cooker

My results:

1- The broth turned out much deeper, fat and beefy in flavor than my "artificial" previous one, however, that was not necessarily DELICIOUS let alone better than my previous one

2- Flat rice noodles suck and spaghetti is MUCH better

3- Soy sauce >>> fish sauce

I'm now tired and feeling misled by everyone including this board