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Subject: [Leica] Cold Pho
From: ken at iisaka.com (Ken Iisaka)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:24:29 -0700
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Yes, you can serve soba in hot broth. You top it with vegetables or slices
of meat or fish cakes.

The dipping sauce is not just soy sauce. It is a fish, seaweed, or mushroom
based broth with soy sauce, mirin, sak? and salt. The further east you go in
Japan, the stronger it is.

Ken Iisaka

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:40 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
wrote:

> Soba is not in broth :-) of course you do dip it in (cold) soyu sauce.
>
> And of course soba is Japanese :-)
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, LeoWesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A variation of cold soba?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Leo Wesson
> > 817.733.9157
> > www.leowesson.com
> >
> >
> > On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:29, Philip Forrest <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Yes pho is supposed to be served hot and I love it that way. I
> > > know that's the way it's traditionally done.
> > >
> > > Cooking in this temperature where the kitchen can easily reach above
> > > 120 isn't really what I want to do right now. But preparing a big pot
> > > of spicy broth for a few days' meals and just chopping veggies and
> > > adding noodles right when it is ready to serve sounds like a great plan
> > > in this unrelenting heat. Same with other cold soups like gazpacho.
> > >
> > > While I love a bowl of hot pho with beef or just veggies, I don't think
> > > that playing with the temperature of the soup is going to do anyone any
> > > harm. If it's the nomenclature that bothers, then I'll call it cold,
> > > spicy, vermicelli (or glass noodle) soup.
> > >
> > > Phil Forrest
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:07:32 -0700
> > > Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Ha ha, curiosity won I found the reference to "cold pho."
> > >>
> > >> Pho, is of course, a corruption of the Chinese word "Fun," or rice
> > >> noodles. (just like cha in Japanese and chai in Hindi are from cha
> > >> [tea] in China).
> > >>
> > >> May be some Vietnamese eat it that way, but I have never heard of it,
> > >> and as far as I know, Chinese never eat cold soup - although with 90+
> > >> ethnic groups and 1.2 billion people, I could be wrong.
> > >>
> > >> So yes, enjoy a bowl of pho, but hot and spicy would do nicely!
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:00 AM, <bruceslomovitz at comcast.net> 
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> I read with interest the comments about cold pho and have a comment
> > >>> or two regarding that.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Vietnam has a very hot and sometimes very humid climate.  Pho is
> > >>> eaten at all times of the year and at all times of the day.  It is
> > >>> best served hot, not cold.  One of the reasons for its popularity
> > >>> in Vietnam is that the hot temperature of the soup as well as its
> > >>> spiciness cause one to sweat. Sweating, as we know, helps to cool
> > >>> us by evaporation.  So please enjoy pho, but enjoy it as it is
> > >>> meant to be enjoyed.  And that is hot and spicy.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Bruce S.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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