/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I mean you're basically getting the equivalent of pho but more numbing spicy. Only a handful of restaurants will do it right. Like here in the US there are some Michelin Chinese/Vietnamese restaurants that does it wrong and its pretty much numbing with no flavor.

If you're in a Vietnamese restaurant be sure to try their non-Pho dishes. I could eat pic related everyday of my life.

>>19693016
>Only a handful of restaurants will do it right.
this
when looking for bun bo hue, you have to find one that specialize in it
>do not order bun bo hue from a pho place

>>19693018
Here's a rule of thumb with not just Vietnamese but all asian restaurants. If you go into a Pho place and they fucking sell something like Chow Mein or Pad Thai, run, fucking don't walk run the fuck out of there.

Pho place should only sell fucking pho, maybe broken rice but they should only specialized in Pho. Like >>19693016, this place is located in a fucking food court, and only sell this one dish the only choices you get to make when order is if you want it medium rare or rare, there's no medium or medium well or welldone, they would just tell you to get the fuck out because you're holding up the line.

>>19693016
Many, many, many moons ago, I was renting a room from a Vietnamese widow who wanted to spend time with me every now and again just talking about this and that. She'd cook dinner and have me sit with her and eat together, which was nice.
She once made this beef-and-tomato soup with carrots that she served with baguette. Idk wtf it was, if it was a properly Vietnamese dish or just something she cooked up in her head, but it was delicious.
After I moved out, we kept in contact and I'd occasionally visit with her at the old place or go out to eat or something. idky her son and daughter never bothered to visit that I know of nor why she didn't live with one of them. I'd like to visit her grave but being Vietnamese, she doesn't have one so idk what to do about that.
Anyway, back to the soup: any idea wtf I'm talking about?

>>19693032
My favourite pho spot has a Viet version of chow ho fun and it is, by far, my favourite chow ho fun ever. Thoughts?

>>19693039
If you like it then you like it, OP it doesn't matter what other people think, pic related is beef noodle soup btw. There's multiple variations based on the country, the most famous being the Taiwanese variant which is not very spicy and numbing, followed by the Chinese variant which is numbing/spicy. Pic related is the vietnamese variant made with rice noodle over egg noodles. Depending on what major city you hail from I can probably point you to a good restaurant that does em pretty good.

If you want the best Vietnamese food in the country(or outside of Vietnam) then you need to live in San Jose. Ironically the worst place to eat Vietnamese food is in Asia, IDK what the Thais do to Korean or Vietnamese food but whatever they do its a travesty.

>muh heckin slop

>>19693068
You are not very smart.

>>19693048
Chow and Ho is redundant, they have the same meaning. They both mean noodle.

Chow Ho Fund roughly translates to Fried Noodle Noodle.

Chow Fund = westernized term for Ho Fund.

>>19693079
see >>19693073

>>19693016
>I mean you're basically getting the equivalent of pho but more numbing spicy
retard take, it's like saying bouillabaisse is the same as vichyssoise. theyre both french soups right?

>>19693093
OP isn't being very descriptive on what he meant, I know the difference and if you don't have anything useful to contribute why you go play in traffic or something. The best description to that dish in regard to how ignorant the average American is a numbing pho since beef noodle soup isn't very popular here.

>>19693079
>Chow and Ho is redundant, they have the same meaning. They both mean noodle.
>Chow Ho Fund roughly translates to Fried Noodle Noodle.
>Chow Fund = westernized term for Ho Fund.
Why would they have two words that mean the same thing?
Two and too don't mean the same thing.

>>19693152
Because Chow and Ho are derivative from the same word just pronounced differently based on the region you're from. And thus when translated from Chinese(炒粉) to english its spelled differently.

>>19693079
Chow means fried you idiot

>>19693200
It even has the fire radical in it, lol.
But no. It /totally/ means NoOdLe, lmao

>>19693039
>She once made this beef-and-tomato soup with carrots that she served with baguette
Vietnamese beef ragu??

>>19693260
I'll look it up. It had a LOT of coriander/cilantro leaves in it and slices of raw (or maybe quick-pickled) onion on top.

>>19693263
>>19693260
Well tickle my titty and call me Taika Waititi, but that might be right. It's either this or bo kho, apparently. Thank you, fren. I'll see if any resto near me serves it.

>>19693152
Chow mein
Lo mein

The noodle is mein

>>19693297
BUT CHOW MEIN MEANS NOODLE NOODLE!!!

>>19692423
There used to be a mom & pop place up the street from me that made the best bun bo Hue I've ever had. Also great rice dishes, their king fried rice is the first thing I ever had with Chinese sausage in it and it was fucking great. They also did a dish which was rice vermicelli with strips of beef wrapped around a chunk of onion, a thing that I'd only ever found at an older and also defunct restauran. C19 killed them and the restaurant got taken over by a younger group of people who make mad decent food but it's not quite the same and it's more expensive. I'll give the new guys this, their spring rolls are out of this world. Not as big but definitely better.

>>19693423
>bun bo Hue
That just means noodle noodle noodle.

>>19693458
Hue is a city.

>>19693515
A citya citya citya citya city

>>19693537
BRAZIL!

>>19693333
炒 'chow' or 'chao' is a verb that just means to toss/stir in a hot skillet, or stir-fry
'mein' or 'mian' means the larger wheat noodles
of course, there are other noodles that are more or less common, depending on the region, like 'mei fun' or rice vermicelli noodles

>>19693589
NO! CHOW MEANS NOODLE!! CHOW FUN MEANS NOODLE NOODLE!!! CHOW HO FUN MEANS NOODLE NOODLE NOODLE!!!! CHOW MEI FUN MEANS NOODLE NOODLE NOODLE!!!!! CHOW MEI HO LO FUN MEIN MEANS NOODLE NOODLE NOODLE NOODLE NOODLE NOODLE!!!!!!

>>19693607
>this is your brain on noodles
rip noodle anon

>>19693607
You ok, Mr. Ping?

how can you guys be so illiterate? just google the meaning of each word and you'll know the exact answer
I hate chinese language btw, such a mess

>>19693016
>I mean you're basically getting the equivalent of pho but more numbing spicy.
You have NEVER eaten the dish posted in the OP. It's neither numbing nor spicy and I fucking bet you only said that because it has a red color.

>>19692423
Some vietnamese places do really good vegetarian/vegan versions. One place uses chewy mushroom stems.

>>19693100
i don't think you have ever had bun bo hue, or traveled outside of your hometown. bun bo hue isn't numbing at all. not sure what shit places you go to, but stop pretending you know anything

>>19692423
Looks good. I’d add some lime and hot sauce to enhance the taste.

OP here, what do you guys think about the place in the youtube URL I posted?
I eat there quite often, price is $2 for a full bowl.
does it look like the bun bo in your town?

>>19693791
if you’re really eating the soup in op’s video for $2 a bowl then there’s no criticism. you could charge $15 a bowl for a bowl like that in the US, and I’d probably still buy it

>>19693827
fuuck, imagine selling 300 bowls a day, and only 16 days a month..
that's already 864k a year..
America really is the land of opportunities..

>>19692423
How did the Viets harness the fermented seafood so skillfully? Smelling their fermented pastes, no one would think they are actually edible, but here we are..

>>19693791
I live in chicago and have only been to one place that specializes in bun bo hue and others that are pho shops or general vietnamese. it looks a bit similar to best one I've had here. the broth in op looks more clear and has less dry seasoning than here. most americans would be disgusted by a pig foot so they sub that out for cha lua. is the other meat brisket or another cut of pork? cause here they just use thinly sliced beef which is lame. only some places here will serve the pork blood
the ratios are probably the biggest difference, the viet places here are cheap as fuck and give you a ton of broth and noodle with not a lot of meat. I went to tank noodle once and got this and it was like all fucking noodle.

>>19694326
the roman garum is thought to be the stinkiest, unlike thai fish sauce the romans didn't even gut the fish

>>19692423
Its pretty great. My Viet GF and split a house with a small Viet family. The mom speaks very broken English but she gets in the kitchen and cooks a whole family sized dinner every night after working a 10 hour shift. Ill come home from work and theres just a massive pot of soup base/broth steaming away on the stove all day long.
We get shit like OPs vid, beef pho, chicken pho, crab/lobster boils, sometimes Oxtail pho etc. Shit is so cash. If there is any left I might take a pic and post it haha

>>19693589
>rice vermicelli noodles
You mean rice noodle noodles.

>>19693016
>pho
Not every fuckin noodle soup in the world is pho, phockface

>>19693100
>noodle soup
=/
>pho
8^O

>>19693607
>>19693333
You must be retarded

>>19694633
Careful. Wouldn't want you to clutch your pearls when I suggest that we kill orphans for meat to feed the poor and use their skin to make fine gloves for rich ladies. You fucking moron.

>>19693016
based bánh mì chảo enthusiast, is there anything like that there?

>>19694649
>bánh mì chảo
That just means noodle noodle noodle.

>>19693039
perhaps what you are describing is bò sốt vang, even though it's more like a stew or thick soup than beef served with sauce, and wine (rượu vang) aren't necessarily involved most of the time.

>>19693079
>>19693183
>炒 means noodle
>not 粉, which has rice in the character
fucking RETARD lmfao... why don't you get a handle on your bopomofo before doling out advice on a language you don't understand.

>>19693016
What the hell have you been eating? Bun bo hue isn't numbing in the slightest.

>>19694693
>What the hell have you been eating?
He answered your question way ahead of time
>>19693016
>some Michelin Chinese/Vietnamese restaurants

>>19693039
That's a beef bo kho stew.
Some of the vietnamese bakery/cafes here serve that for breakfast with crusty baguettes, it's fantastic on a cold morning, with some Vietnamese coffee.

>>19695471
See >>19693273