By the subtle aroma of the vegetables Vietnam, she has made rapid pho and widely known in Saigon at that time. This is just one of many areas of pho, to introduce readers to reference.
There is something specific to Vietnam more than pho, delicious dishes that Bich, skillfully cooked it makes our taste buds are excited. Along with the bronze drum, elected and Tale of Kieu, no doubt, it is one of the essential contribution of Vietnam to the human civilization. That the debate about the value of the different types of noodles become a way of testing a large pen, but the writers of Vietnam expressed with rapture, much less the average of the best poems by Nguyen Trai, Nguyen Binh Khiem, Ho Xuan Huong, Nguyen Du or Xuan Dieu.
For example, in The Cat Who vacuum cleaner, Hoai recounted for us a debate, if you can call that, between and Thach Nguyen Tuan Lam: "These fun culinary likes and not only by Nguyen Tuan pieces for easy eating drinking luxurious pieces, which is to the palate, and delicious in its sole discretion Pho ... Well put pen to paper on the author of the extremely competent hands of this gift. Few people know Nguyen Tuan only eat one noodles, cooked noodles, beef noodles cooked. is not anything against the other noodles. Ground beef cooked, studded or fat, brown bread is not just bow up-wheeled machines, such as maternity or state in Saigon, Nguyen Compliance dubbed Pho Van Than. Promotion finished cake, cut up meat and presentation, sprinkle the flowers and pepper - not chili, like chili pepper though ... Sliding quick, hot food, to end noodle quality, interesting Best. No onions, bow, inspired, do not add fish sauce, vinegar peppers, chili sauce, not mine, do not enjoy pasta the core essence of bone broth. The memoir "36 streets" of Thach commended as a good pho restaurants burden of a stick of incense in the yard parked next to the hospital Phu Doan, pho a few drops of tomato stems clearly. The city has only one stem was found tomato noodle soup. Nguyen Tuan always laugh: "The only fresh water hot lips, a sweet green bean cake Nazi neck, back to the noodle tomato stems, so the addict just like his solo let down, since it is worth writing for the light. "
What Vietnam over noodles! But no! Need to restore the truth, whether it is national pride. Pho is one of the products of the French colonial period, the result of a collaboration is certainly unwillingly, among the indigenous population with (or, rather, between a colonial hands with a native woman) . I do not dare to lose face to open your time reading my own grandfather, Francois Pierre Vidcoq, a commissioned naval officer lived in Saigon from 1910 to 1914, along with her three beautiful Thi his devise ways to cook the noodles. He himself told me, after sneaking her grandmother, a Mrs. Dam, about it. I will try to faithfully convey the words he said. Please say more, even the name of this dish absolutely nothing gates are only transcribed into Vietnamese by the French phrase "pot au feu" - po-auto-euphoria - as easy to understand after read the line below ...
Stories like this: After you have stabilized in Saigon, from body panels are excellent spring time of the origin of Normandy and his wife, Francois Pierre soon filled with desire again. Even under the tropical heat, the body also needs to pleasure, also need to clean house and dinner table should also have food! Francois Pierre find a girl, brought to live in his house. Several months passed and not so bad: Francois Pierre was not a cruel man, he is not scolding the girl to prove to white authority, do not beat her to hustle at times frustrating, but Three competition for the everyday needs of his West. He sometimes lets her go out with her friends, while other stories are not too week a couple of times, remains to soothe the normal demands of the flesh.
But then suddenly fell ill Pierre Francois homesick. He became moody, irritable and quick-pulse. The network, not just at the upper three or lower leg with her arm because of silly reasons, his nose into the bottle back down by him, eyes searching in vain blue streaks of Vosges range, it can not do land from this remote South. In a state of drowsiness say so, a statement on persistent ear when he does not stop, "pot au feu Du, I crave po-auto-dress, wish I was an meal at this po-auto-dress! ".
"Vice, euphoria, euphoria" Thi Ba has only heard that and did not know what to do. She had made friends of the three children in the house a French officer, an official luxury hard to imagine, to bring to the whole Indo her French chef, explained to understand the Thi Ba tail things. The second po-auto-euphoria is doing his Marines kgo office turned out to be a soup, but soup is cooking Thi Ba said. If you know the formula of it. Thi Ba pay only babbling in French, Francois Pierre knew no more than two dozen words in Vietnamese. Finally, thanks to a young sheep annamite know the language of Voltaire-by the way the author added that the missionaries were forbidden to read the official Thi Ba-envision what it must be done. Materials, preparation, cooking methods and spices, nothing like the art of Vietnamese cooking, add more, Francois Pierre insisted that want Thi Ba cooking pot au feu is identical to that his mother is cooking . Eventually, after numerous tests, the failures and fighting, the soup pot broken down channel, she went to a temporary result is acceptable Pierre Francois. Of course, pho Thi Ba's pot au feu is different in his hometown, but, as often is the French proverb saying: "Faute de grives on mange des merles". Vietnamese translation, means: "take shrimps do not have personal importance."
Instead of the traditional spices of Normandy, the art of cooking, she uses subtle aroma of vegetables in Vietnam. The new dish was originally two enthusiasts enjoy, then to friends, then friends of friends. All Marines who had to stop at the food at the port of Saigon before the war, the first world will tell you, a poetic about her soup, three beautiful girls of Francois Pierre Vidcoq .
My grandfather was then returned to Normandy, leaving allowances, three discharged their meager. With this money, she returned to Hanoi, where the buried umbilical cut vegetables, to open a restaurant and it quickly became a favorite of gourmet hand capital Hanoi and crowded or something. Her reputation and of pho on a spread. When my grandfather died, my grandmother found on his neck a small silk bag, inside a photo of a woman dressed in traditional Annamite with a few herbs. She cried all night and buried him along with him the talisman.
The story of her beautiful Thi Ba, Francois Pierre Vidcoq and pho is. Do not know which is the real story or a story made up? It is important that it makes you enjoy and remember when your nose you smell sweet fragrance from a big bowl of hot noodles fly.
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