About a week after eating at Tank, I decided to attemp to make pho. Let me tell you, it is not easy, not easy at all! I decided early on that I wanted to try to make my own broth. It was a total failure. I started by browning beef neck bones in a large pot. Then I filled the pot nearly to the top with water, a chopped onion, a few chopped stalks of celery, carrots, some bay leaves, salt and pepper. This simmered down well over halfway for nearly a day, but never became a real broth. It just ended up kinda greasy and had no real beef broth flavor. In the end, I had to go buy some beef broth from the grocery store.
The other ingredients I had were rice noodles, pre-sliced ribeye, lime slices, bean sprouts, enoki mushrooms, and chopped green onion, and hot sauce. I cooked the noodles, then added them and the beef to the broth. The thinly sliced ribeye cooks in a minute. Everything else I put on the side to add separately in case people didn't like it. I did notice the green onion quite a bit while eating so perhaps I should've cooked them for a few minutes beforehand as well.
Overall, it was a pretty good meal and not a bad effort. A lot of ingredients can be added/subtracted, i.e. different veggies, meats, etc. The broth was disappointing...guess I'll have to work on it.
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