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# Beef Pho

- [Made in Slatesource](https://slatesource.com/u/steph/beef-pho)
- By [Steph](https://slatesource.com/u/Steph)
- Food & Drinks
- Created on May 23, 2026

## Beef Pho

Vietnam in a bowl. Charred onion and ginger thrown into beef stock with cinnamon, star anise, cloves and coriander, then poured boiling over rare steak so it cooks in the bowl.

Total time

55 minutes

Serves

2

Difficulty

Easy, broth does the work

Origin

Hanoi, northern Vietnam

MOMENT

First light

Hanoi street stall, dawn

> You sit on a low plastic stool, you do not order, you say nothing. A bowl arrives. You eat in five minutes, you stand up, you leave. The vendor never looked up.

Char the onion and ginger dry in the pan until they blacken. That is where the broth gets its depth. Skip this and you have flavoured water.

Freeze the steak for fifteen minutes before slicing. The chill firms the meat so you can cut it paper thin, which is how it cooks in the boiling broth.

Do not boil the noodles in the broth. They release starch and cloud it. Cook them separately, drain, then build the bowl from underneath.

[Source recipe on TheMealDB](https://www.themealdb.com/meal/53238?utm_source=slatesource)