Pho bread - a unique fast food in Saigon

The combination of banh mi and pho creates a dish that makes you immediately throw away all hesitation when choosing a quick morning menu.

Surely no one can list all the types of bread in Vietnam because each region has different "variations". With pho bread, this is a dish that blends the sophistication of pho flavor with the quickness of bread.

You can find everything of pho in just one crispy and fragrant baguette.

The pho sandwich looks like a regular hamburger, but the crust is a big difference. With creativity, the chef at Ro22, the place that created the pho sandwich with a crust that smells of pho broth. The bread flour is mixed with 22 spices used to season the pho broth, so the crust making process is more elaborate and time-consuming than other types of crusts.

Going through many stages of kneading under the hands of the baker, the spices are absorbed into the dough, so after baking, the crust of this type of bread is not only fragrant, delicious, and crispy, but the inside has the characteristic Vietnamese pho aroma.

Scallions, pepper and many other spices on the crispy fragrant bread crust. A pho sandwich costs 25,000 VND.

The side dishes sandwiched inside the bread are not lettuce or tomatoes like many other hamburgers, but basil, cilantro and onions - herbs that are indispensable when eating pho. Beef brisket or flank is the main filling. The beef is cooked and sliced ​​thinly according to pho standards, so it is just tender. Just by taking the first bite of the bread, diners can immediately feel the rich taste of pho. The secret is that after sandwiching the meat and vegetables, the chef will pour a sauce similar to concentrated pho broth, cooked from stewed bones like other regular pho broths on top, and finally a little chili sauce to add a spicy taste.

Like many other fast foods, it only takes 1-3 minutes to have a hot sandwich with the fragrant smell of traditional beef noodle soup. This is a healthy fast food because it contains as many nutrients as a bowl of pho. You can completely replace "a bowl of pho to regain strength" with "a pho sandwich" on busy days without worrying about the quality like other fast foods.

A little suggestion for you, pho bread and Vietnamese coffee are the perfect take away duo for those in a hurry to start a new day smoothly.

The "father" of pho bread said he spent 6 months researching and developing this fast food with a taste that is both strange and familiar to Vietnamese people. Pho bread is a fusion of the cuisines of the North and South: Saigon bread has long been a typical brand of the South, and when talking about Northern cuisine, the famous pho is indispensable.

Although it has only recently appeared in Vietnam, not only Vietnamese people but also many foreign tourists, especially backpackers, have come to try it. Most of them feel the novelty and charm of this "small but mighty" sandwich. The first shop selling this dish is Ro22, Truong Dinh Street, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City.

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According to VNE