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Vietnamese noodles: a cultural pho-nomenon

In Hanoi, it is a truth universally acknowledged that the best pho noodle soup is found in the grimiest restaurants, where the staff are rude, the queues long, and the surroundings spartan at best. Pho, a simple soup of beef broth, herbs, spices and rice noodles, emerged some 100 years…