Pho - St John Street
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Last night I started a course in food writing. The course tutor, Lulu Grimes recommended that all her students keep a food diary, so from this meal forward, for the next 10 weeks, I will endeavour to document the majority of things that end up down my mouth, which considering the volume of food I consume might end up being a mammoth task. One of the perils of this project might be that regular readers desert once they realise that I am hideously greedy, a bad cook and an awful photographer to boot, so I’ll apologise for any misdemeanours in advance.
A good place to start would be the meal I enjoyed last night at a relatively new Vietnamese joint called Pho. As the name suggests it specialises in the popular Vietnamese dish pho. Vietnamese people eat this soupy broth with noodles for breakfast, lunch and dinner in fact it is probably regarded as their national dish. If it tastes like the offering I had last night I certainly don’t blame them, after one slurp I was hooked.
There are a choice of different meats, apparently the most authentic is beef, I went for the chicken, which arrived on top of a huge tangle of noodles floating in a fragrant broth. They also bring you a side dish of bean sprouts and various herbs (mint, coriander, sweet basil), which you add to suit your own personal taste. After a long day the soup was deeply restorative, the clean taste and purity of ingredients a perfect pick me up and I found myself in almost a meditative state rhythmically slurping down the noodles.
Pho is not the kind of place where you go to hangout, it has a far more utilitarian purpose a quick pit stop to refuel and energise, which is probably a more authentic Vietnamese experience. The owners actually work in the restaurant and are clearly passionate about what they are serving, which is reflected in the high standard of food on offer. I can’t wait to return, in fact I can see this becoming a regular Monday night haunt.
Pho - 86 St John Street, London, EC1M 4EH
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Obviously lesson one was ’sexual innuendo’
Comment by Damo 04.25.06 @ 5:30 pmYou are not a bad cook, nor a bad photographer. But you already are a great writer.
I look forward to reading all about your writing journey.
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You most certainly are not a bad cook gastrochick. I will be looking forward to hearing about the things that end up “down your mouth”.
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