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[DragonQ]

Really glad to see u discuss abt our foods. I wish i could take my mom to Bangkok to sell u whatever u want with the vietnamese foods, lol. She's really so good with it.

BTW, it's not that simple is "Bun", "Bún" is only the name of 1 resource in your meal, not the whole. Many different ways and many different names for what can go with "Bún". Expample for the "Bun" that JingThing posted within the picture, it comes with roast meat, peatnuts, some vegetables and the exactly name must be "Bún thịt nướng", and the "thit nuong" is roast meat meaning. And go on, u still have bun nem nuong, bun cha, bun bo, bun ngang etc.

So you must know correct name to ask Vietnamese which one u'd like. I can show u that correct name if u show me correctly what u eat

I'm new in Bangkok, then hope i can find where they have it too. I'm Vietnamese then =P

[tutsiwarrior]

PattayaParent, on 2010-12-02 09:20:44, said:

tutsiwarrior, on 2010-09-11 20:12:10, said:

4 years ago when I lived in HCM on Mac Dinh Chi St in district 1 there were 4-5 places across the street that offered pho bo; just varied by price from 15-18k dong with all the leaves, condiments, etc...recently I've been in the north with no places close by my accommodation in Hanoi but offered at the breakfast buffet at the hotel in Ha Tinh but with no condiments, just some chiles and bean sprouts...they useta bring the cauldron of broth up on the lift from the downstairs kitchen and make a mess...good broth and noodles but no condiments...

raises the question: are the leaves and condiments a southern thing?

Must be for the pho at least, when I eat bun cha in the North there's loads of condiments so they are available and could be used in the pho, but aren't.

The North VN are very 'snobbish' about their pho though, they reckon the southerners can't make it properly.

yahs...in 1975 the northerner grimly sez to the southern vanquished: ' you eat shit you collaborating dog and shall attend harsh re-education camp, and there shall be no more pho bo for you!...'...

I been here a year an' try to stay out of it...make do wid loaves of bread by de side ob de road...('put sum mustard on that, will ye?...')

PP, aint sayin nothing about you were sayin'...with respect to the politburo they's got to be improvements in education and health care subsidies around here.. the rural poverty is still terrible

Edited by tutsiwarrior, 2011-05-17 23:51:18.

[tutsiwarrior]

now I geddit...there is a difference between pho and bun...just like wid asians, noodles all look de same....and with this racist misconception there has got to be a story...

a western colleague is leaving the project after a year on the job and it's also his birthday and splashes out with a big do for his mates at a posh hotel somewhere in Quang Binh province...it was a 'poolside party' so ye knew there were gonna be a lot of drunken 'water sports'...

to the host who is a mate I said lets include a couple of the management girls from the hotel where I live who he knows and he said why not?...they are lovely girls...and I went together with them to the do with them modestly but tastefully attired and me in Thailand clown shorts and t-shirt to find the other westerners similarly attired...uh oh...

there was a magnificent seafood and steak buffet but did people bother?,no...it was western big time misbehaving being hurled into the pool; a VN secretary was hurled into the pool attired in her black sheath cocktail dress then changed into cutoffs and a halter and did a lewd dance in order to get hurled into the pool again...asian girlfriends of various nationalities lounged about in bikinis begging to be hurled...it was western bacchanalia en masse and I cast a protective eye on my modest VN charges but they had fled into the hotel somewhere...

when they re-appeared it was late and I said 'time to go?' as we had an hour drive back to our hotel the next province over...I had foraged some leftovers from the buffet to give an to eccentric colleague back at our hotel who doesn't spend money but makes do with scraps from the hotel restaurant and one of my girls faced me ferociously and said 'I'll have that scrap leg of lamb...' and I knew something was amiss as vietnamese don't eat mutton...

the driver floored it out of the hotel parking lot and soon we were on the main highway heading north and then the car stopped in front of a crummy looking open restaurant and one of the girls growled: 'we're hungry' and I whimpered:' please, do they have ice for my vodka...?' then magnificent bowls of noodles appeared of a like that I had never seen before, vermicelli type rice noodles with condiments and although I was stuffed to the gizzards with steak and lobster I dug in...the vodka neglected on the side...

then I said that is remarkable: what is it called?...the girls were on home ground and sate after the noodles and indicated 'bun' on the sign board out side...and I thought: that's what sbk was on about in the thaivisa thread...

we slumbered in the car on the way back to the beach hotel...I had lost respect but had gained new knowledge....

win a few, lose a few...

Edited by tutsiwarrior, 2011-06-19 03:27:20.

[tutsiwarrior]

as an observation, it is rice harvest time in our part of VN and as we were driving south to the party I tried to engage one of the girls regarding the timing of the harvest as it is a month earlier than the previous year in July when all the activity started...(ye get to notice these things when living in a rural area; everyone's involved, sorta like something out of a Breuegel painting)

she is a local provincial girl but college educated  and she was abrupt with me to say that her family is not concerned with such matters...

but she rejected western cuisine and western convivality at the party in favor of a simple peasant noodle dish?...she was also confused when I said that I admired Ho Chi Minh...

dey gots ye comin' an' goin' ....

Edited by tutsiwarrior, 2011-06-19 04:58:27.

[junki3korean]

Panhandler007, on 2011-03-17 05:19:02, said:

Is there a CHEAP AUTHENTIC PHO resturant in ThailandÉ  Could never find a place!  Wanna pay 40bt for a bowl of pho!  Had pho in Cambodia for $1 USD.  Very authentic.  Just cant seem to find a reasonable priced AUTHENTIC tasting Pho in Thailand!

The best I've found was in Laos. Saying that every pho I've had in Thailand (BKK, CMX ) was basically a Kuaytiaw. No where in Thai have I found a nice pho.
I just don't think Thais are into AUTHENTIC viet food.

[junki3korean]

Maybe its becuase of the quality of beef in Thailand that they can not produce a good pho??