New Pho Shizzle T-Shirts Available

We've finally got our Pho Shizzle shirts transferred over to our Cafepress Pho Shizzle store. Many of you have been waiting on sizes for several weeks and we appreciate your patience. Additionally, we added a Ringer (band of color around the neck and sleeves), Women's Cap Sleeve and of course a hooded sweatshirt.

» Check out our Pho Shizzle shirts and let us know what you think!

The History of Pho

A BOWL OF PHO / Vietnam's treasured beef noodle soup that brings families together

This article, written by Mai Pham, discusses the origins of pho and its political and cultural influences. All Vietnamese readers will relate to her description of eating pho with her family as a child.

As children, we remember waking up on Saturday mornings to the fragrant smell of pho simmering in the kitchen. There was the familiar clank! clank! of metal spoons on porcelain and the rattle of chopsticks settling onto countertops. Our parents had risen hours before to start the pho; they roasted the ginger and onion, carefully tended to the broth to keep it clear, and pulled the ends off of the bean sprouts, while listening to Vietnamese music. This was love.

For the love of pho

We scour S.F.'s Little Saigon to find the best Vietnamese beef noodle soup

We have to give SF Chronicle writers Carrol Ness and Amanda Berne credit for a well written article on the best pho in San Francisco. They discuss (quite accurately)what constitutes a good bowl and the differences between Northern and Southern style pho. In fact, this article was the inspiration for this blog.

Their restaurant recommendation are spot on. Turtle Tower (Tap Rua for you VN folks) is one of our top choices in San Francisco. We stop there whenever we are in town!

The article is followed by a helpful translation guide to pho menus and a recipe for pho ga (chicken pho).

Maps added to Pho Restaurant Directory Listings

Now you can locate pho restaurants in our directory with our new mapping links. We've integrated links to Google Maps to make it easy to find the pho restaurant near you. Let us know what you think!

» Find a pho restaurant

New What the Pho Shirts

We've added four new What the Pho shirt styles to our CafePress shop! What the Pho has been the most popular style to date and we have not been able to keep up with demand. Special thanks to Anh Dao for the hoodie suggestion.

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The New PhoFever.com Blog

Several users have suggested that we setup a blog to announce new features and get feedback. If you are reading this then a blog was a good idea! We're working hard to improve PhoFever.com and hope that you continue to find it a useful and entertaining resource for all things pho. Come back to find out what's new, read articles, restaurant reviews and other pho-related goodies.

Thanks for your support!