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| | For the love of pho / We scour S.F.'s Little Saigon to find the best Vietnamese beef noodle soup |
 | | And when Tran was late for school, rather than go hungry she'd balance a big bowl of pho in her lap to gulp down as she drove her VW bug to class. |
 | | Beef pho comes in multiple variations, allowing you to choose how you want your meat: rare, well-cooked, as beef balls, tripe, tendon or a sinewy cut called flank that is often served in a spiral of meat, fat and skin. |
 | | One time, the pho dac biet was wonderful -- the broth clean and spicy, the beef a great play of texture and taste -- but another time, the noodles were an impenetrable wad, the broth was cloudy, salty, sweet and oily, and the meat ranged from fatty to dry. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/11/03/FDGRN9HG5P1.DTL (2640 words) |
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