Hanoi chicken noodle soup

Pho ga

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Food and Travels: Asia

By Alastair Hendy

Published 2004

  • About

Pho is Hanoi’s breakfast soup. When made with stivers of beef it’s called pho bo, and when with chicken, pho ga. An egg yolk can be popped in just before serving. Pile it into bowls and go mad on the alongside-condiment front: herbs, sprinklings and dippy things (coriander, fish sauce, chilli sauce, rice vinegar with chilli rings in, lime wedges etc.), that you weave into your bowl as you eat. Again, any cooked Sunday lunch chicken carcass and its attached clingage can be used to make this.