21 articles
Feature
This baby’s reaction to trying phở for the first time is the best food review of all time
Phở is often lauded as one of the world’s greatest foods, and for good reason. Vietnam’s national dish — traditionally consisting of bone br...
Editorial Staff
Food
Phở restaurant in Iowa criticized as ‘lazy,’ ‘disgusting’ for including raw beef slices in phở order
A customer accused a phở restaurant in Iowa of being “lazy” and “dangerous” with their dish preparation after seeing uncooked beef in their...
Ryan General
Michelin star French chef skewered online for his pho recipe
Acclaimed chef Eric Ripert of the Michelin star restaurant Le Bernadin is being criticized for his “vegetarian Vietnamese pho” recipe poste...
Sarah Yukiko
Former ‘MasterChef Junior’ contestant dedicates his pho-inspired ramen dish to his bà ngoại
Matthew Smith, a former contestant of “MasterChef Junior,” recently shared how to make his Crispy Chicken Ramen dish inspired by his grandmo...
Maina Chen
Popular Food Blogger Called Out for Whitewashing Pho, Disappoints Many With Her Response
Popular food author Tieghan Gerard has sparked an online backlash from the Asian American community over a recipe that failed to give justic...
News
Vietnamese Woman Who Earned $3.4 Million With Pho Restaurant Makes Forbes Under 30 Slovakia List
A Vietnamese woman landed a spot in Forbes Slovakia’s 30 Under 30 list of 2020 for her successful establishment of a pho restaurant business...
Carl Samson
Civil Rights
Pho Restaurant Owner Calls Ex-Manager the N-Word for Quitting
A pho restaurant in Texas has landed in hot water after a former employee posted a screenshot of a co-owner dropping the N-word and calling ...
Khier Casino
White Chef Enrages the Asian Community AGAIN After Making a Chicken Sandwich and Calling it ‘Pho’
Stock Rittenhouse, a restaurant in Philadelphia owned by chef Tyler Akin, is getting dragged online after netizens discovered a dish on the ...
Bryan Ke
A Pho Restaurant Just Became the First OC Restaurant Awarded with the James Beard Award
Pho 79, a Vietnamese restaurant in Garden Grove, California best known for its oxtail soup, is the first restaurant in Orange County to be a...
White-Owned Pho Restaurant That Tried to Trademark The Word ‘Pho’ Under Fire For ‘Vegan Pho’
A pho restaurant chain owned by Stephen and Juliette Wall in the U.K. went viral in 2013 for trademarking the word “pho” and att...
Jin Hyun
French-Vietnamese Restaurant Forced to Remove ‘Offensive’ ‘Pho Keene Great’ Sign
A city in New Hampshire is not too keen on the name of a new pho restaurant that is intended to be a play on words. Pho Keene Great had disp...
Asia
How Many Calories Are Actually in Your Favorite Asian Foods?
There are a few clichés you’re guaranteed to come across at the start of every new year: shameless “new year, new me” posts, long lists of r...
BuzzFeed’s ’30-Min Pho’ Video is an Absolute Abomination
BuzzFeed Tasty, the popular Instagram account for quick meals and procrastination, recently released a video detailing how to make pho, a po...
Kimberly Nguyen
Build Your Own Phở and We’ll Tell You What Your Friends REALLY Think of You
Have you ever wondered what your friends actually think of you? This very accurate quiz can tell you exactly what role you play in your grou...
10 Delicious Vietnamese Dishes That Aren’t Pho
When people think Vietnamese food, Pho (or phở), the rice noodle dish made of herbs, chicken or beef, is most likely the first thing that co...
Vietnamese People Critique American Pho Recipes and There are a Lot of Problems
On the latest installment of Jenny Yang’s “Bad Appetite” series, Vietnamese people were asked to critique some of the questionable recipes o...
PGA Champion Danielle Kang Celebrates Win By Eating Pho Out of Her Trophy
Well that’s one un-pho-gettable Instagram pic. Danielle Kang, 24, winner of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in Olympia Fields,...
Heather Johnson Yu
Opinion
White Chef’s ‘Pho With Quinoa’ Recipe is Disgusting and Absolute Blasphemy
I literally cannot believe what I’m seeing right now. I literally can’t even. Am I reading The Onion? Am I being punk’d? W...
Max Chang
White Chef Caught Publicly Shaming Rival Pho Restaurant on Instagram
It would seem that the cultural outrage sparked by America’s “favorite” Caucasian pho chef, Tyler Akin, isn’t over y...
Vietnamese People Are Divided Over The Right Way to Eat Pho
Bon Appétit Magazine’s video of an American chef showing the “proper consumption techniques” of a very popular Vietnamese delicacy has recei...
Ignorant White Guy Tries To Tell Asians How To ‘Properly’ Eat Pho — Gets it All Wrong
Here’s a tip: Never tell Asian people how to eat their native food “properly” if you know nothing about it. An online foodie magazine thoug...