--- product_id: 38767726 title: "The Pho Cookbook: Easy to Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam's Favorite Soup and Noodles" price: "VT9678" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/38767726-the-pho-cookbook-easy-to-adventurous-recipes-for-vietnams-favorite store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # The Pho Cookbook: Easy to Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam's Favorite Soup and Noodles **Price:** VT9678 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Pho Cookbook: Easy to Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam's Favorite Soup and Noodles - **How much does it cost?** VT9678 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/38767726-the-pho-cookbook-easy-to-adventurous-recipes-for-vietnams-favorite) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Pho Cookbook: Easy to Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam's Favorite Soup and Noodles [Nguyen, Andrea] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Pho Cookbook: Easy to Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam's Favorite Soup and Noodles Review: Love soup? Insist on home-made quality broths? Pho fan? Love this book! - I am a lover of soup. I am also drawn by all the flavors of Vietnamese cooking. So, there was no way I was passing up a single-themed recipe book on pho. So glad that this book delighted me! So glad it exceeded my expectations! Just turning the introductory pages of this book, my senses were teased by the beautiful pictures, both action and still shots. (And there is a full page picture for every main recipe.) Pictures are colorful and vibrant—mouthwatering, too! Even an insert to help the reader correctly pronounce pho and a page on how to eat it. History of pho comes at the beginning of the book. One chapter covers thorough explanations and pictures of pho ingredients: Noodles, spices, aromatics, bottled seasonings, sweeteners, herbs and garnishes. You will learn to select the best bones and the proper cuts of meat. Plenty of helpful hints and tips. Do you ever read instructions and wonder why certain techniques or extra steps are included—and been left wondering? That will not happen with these recipes. You will learn how and why to char ginger and onions/shallots and parboil bones. There are simple and quick pho recipes, meatless pho, pressure cooker pho and classic recipes. Ingredients are not hard to find in well-stocked larger grocery stores. Of course, being near to an Asian market is helpful. But chicken, beef and pork meat and bones can be found almost everywhere. (But certain lamb cuts and bones, for instance, are harder for me to find at a regular grocery store in central and southern Texas, and an Asian market helps with that.) Be aware that ingredient lists can be somewhat long. Do not let that daunt you! Prep work is easy and not time consuming. I have learned that gathering up ingredients gets to be less and less of a chore the more often I do it. If you make pho often enough, the shelf ingredients will migrate together and you won’t be wasting time gathering them from here and there. Just get past that initial long list and it will soon become second nature. Each recipe provides the name of the pho in both Vietnamese and English. There is a short and interesting introduction and the reader will see approximate times for preparation. Recipes serve from 2 to 6, with most recipes serving 4 diners. Ingredient lists are concise and include both Imperial and Metric measurements. Instructions are broken into spaced paragraphs which help re-direct the eyes to where one left off. Instructions make sense and won’t leave an inexperienced cook wondering how to proceed. I do use both a large and a small pressure cooker on occasion, so I found an entire page discussion of the virtues of a pressure cooker vs. a stockpot to be quite interesting. (My point here, again, is that valuable and worthwhile tips and hints are included in this book.) I especially liked the chapter “Adventurous Pho”. It is designed to remind the reader that making pho is a creative process, and a recipe in a book is just a foundation, or a jumping off place, for experimentation. In this chapter there is a seafood pho and a lamb pho. One for rotisserie chicken, too! There are a few fried rice and fat rice recipes and a banh mi. There are also recipes for appropriate dipping sauces, bowl add-ins, fried bread sticks and a helpful pho spice blend. I was happy to see a recipe for homemade hoisin, a chile sauce and a sate sauce. Pho is more that noodles in broth. There is a chapter that contains a few stir-fried recipes, some pan fried recipes and deep fried dishes. A final chapter is all about pho sides: Pot stickers, salads, slaw, rice paper rolls, more sauces, drinks. Even a Pho Michelada! *I received a temporary download of this book from the publisher months before publication, so I have been working with it for quite a while. As you can see from the "Verified Purchase" tag up top of my review, I liked this book so much that I bought a hard copy to always have at hand. Review: We love pho - My daughter loved this book. Beautifully written and illustrated. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #61,427 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4 in Vietnamese Cooking, Food & Wine #17 in Soups & Stews Cooking #36 in Pressure Cooker Recipes | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,250) | | Dimensions | 8.31 x 0.71 x 9.29 inches | | Edition | Illustrated | | ISBN-10 | 1607749580 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1607749585 | | Item Weight | 1.62 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 168 pages | | Publication date | February 7, 2017 | | Publisher | Ten Speed Press | ## Images ![The Pho Cookbook: Easy to Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam's Favorite Soup and Noodles - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81LAUCZ9KfL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love soup? Insist on home-made quality broths? Pho fan? Love this book! *by I***T on February 8, 2017* I am a lover of soup. I am also drawn by all the flavors of Vietnamese cooking. So, there was no way I was passing up a single-themed recipe book on pho. So glad that this book delighted me! So glad it exceeded my expectations! Just turning the introductory pages of this book, my senses were teased by the beautiful pictures, both action and still shots. (And there is a full page picture for every main recipe.) Pictures are colorful and vibrant—mouthwatering, too! Even an insert to help the reader correctly pronounce pho and a page on how to eat it. History of pho comes at the beginning of the book. One chapter covers thorough explanations and pictures of pho ingredients: Noodles, spices, aromatics, bottled seasonings, sweeteners, herbs and garnishes. You will learn to select the best bones and the proper cuts of meat. Plenty of helpful hints and tips. Do you ever read instructions and wonder why certain techniques or extra steps are included—and been left wondering? That will not happen with these recipes. You will learn how and why to char ginger and onions/shallots and parboil bones. There are simple and quick pho recipes, meatless pho, pressure cooker pho and classic recipes. Ingredients are not hard to find in well-stocked larger grocery stores. Of course, being near to an Asian market is helpful. But chicken, beef and pork meat and bones can be found almost everywhere. (But certain lamb cuts and bones, for instance, are harder for me to find at a regular grocery store in central and southern Texas, and an Asian market helps with that.) Be aware that ingredient lists can be somewhat long. Do not let that daunt you! Prep work is easy and not time consuming. I have learned that gathering up ingredients gets to be less and less of a chore the more often I do it. If you make pho often enough, the shelf ingredients will migrate together and you won’t be wasting time gathering them from here and there. Just get past that initial long list and it will soon become second nature. Each recipe provides the name of the pho in both Vietnamese and English. There is a short and interesting introduction and the reader will see approximate times for preparation. Recipes serve from 2 to 6, with most recipes serving 4 diners. Ingredient lists are concise and include both Imperial and Metric measurements. Instructions are broken into spaced paragraphs which help re-direct the eyes to where one left off. Instructions make sense and won’t leave an inexperienced cook wondering how to proceed. I do use both a large and a small pressure cooker on occasion, so I found an entire page discussion of the virtues of a pressure cooker vs. a stockpot to be quite interesting. (My point here, again, is that valuable and worthwhile tips and hints are included in this book.) I especially liked the chapter “Adventurous Pho”. It is designed to remind the reader that making pho is a creative process, and a recipe in a book is just a foundation, or a jumping off place, for experimentation. In this chapter there is a seafood pho and a lamb pho. One for rotisserie chicken, too! There are a few fried rice and fat rice recipes and a banh mi. There are also recipes for appropriate dipping sauces, bowl add-ins, fried bread sticks and a helpful pho spice blend. I was happy to see a recipe for homemade hoisin, a chile sauce and a sate sauce. Pho is more that noodles in broth. There is a chapter that contains a few stir-fried recipes, some pan fried recipes and deep fried dishes. A final chapter is all about pho sides: Pot stickers, salads, slaw, rice paper rolls, more sauces, drinks. Even a Pho Michelada! *I received a temporary download of this book from the publisher months before publication, so I have been working with it for quite a while. As you can see from the "Verified Purchase" tag up top of my review, I liked this book so much that I bought a hard copy to always have at hand. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We love pho *by A***S on April 9, 2026* My daughter loved this book. Beautifully written and illustrated. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lots of Pho recipes. Highly recommend it! *by U***C on October 15, 2025* Hearing about Pho I decided to purchase two books about Vietnam recipes. I purchased this one and alarger hardback by Mai Pham entitle Pleasured of the Vietnamese Table, which I think is the better book. Though, if you're looking for just a cookbook, this is the better of the two. I enjoyed reading it and learning about Vietnam and its recipes. Looking forward to trying the recipes.. 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