FOOD
Pho is a delicious Vietnamese hot soup perfect for a cold, winter’s day
Chef Minh brings decades of experience to his unique recipes
Pho served up by a labor of love Westchester’s Most Valuable Playa creates the popular soup with no MSG STORY BY KELLIE CHUDZINSKI | PHOTOS BY MVP
Inside Most Valuable Playa diners will find an open 15-seat stone bar, plenty of tables and a room filled with natural light. Tucked on a menu varied with Taiwaneseinspired shareable dishes are two different pho soups. 36 PLAYA VISTA DIRECT | FEBRUARY · MARCH 2020
On the surface, pho – pronounced fuh not foh – is a simple Vietnamese soup of rice noodles and broth paired with tender meat and herbs. Though the people of Vietnam have likely been eating something similar to pho for
centuries, the modern form of this soup became popular at the turn of the 20th century. At sunup and sundown vendors would hang a hot pot of stock on a bamboo pole over their shoulders, with fixings for the soup hanging from the other end of
