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Living in Jacksonville => Dining => Restaurants => Topic started by: aldermanparklover on January 13, 2017, 05:57:06 PM

Title: Pho Today! - Just had lunch there - is worth the stop
Post by: aldermanparklover on January 13, 2017, 05:57:06 PM
Went today for lunch - ordered the X-Large Pho Tai for $9.25 (Is a MASSIVE bowl)

Is very, very good and CONFIRMED: the Pho broth is made from scratch

(btw - it's pronounced fuh, which is the name of the noodles)


http://www.photodayjax.com/ (http://www.photodayjax.com/)

https://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-today-jacksonville?adjust_creative=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA&utm_campaign=yelp_api&utm_medium=api_v2_search&utm_source=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA (https://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-today-jacksonville?adjust_creative=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA&utm_campaign=yelp_api&utm_medium=api_v2_search&utm_source=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a3yxpTIh3s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a3yxpTIh3s) <- so you know how to eat it the right way lol
Title: Re: Pho Today! - Just had lunch there - is worth the stop
Post by: Adam White on January 13, 2017, 06:06:34 PM
Quote from: aldermanparklover on January 13, 2017, 05:57:06 PM
Went today for lunch - ordered the X-Large Pho Tai for $9.25 (Is a MASSIVE bowl)

Is very, very good and CONFIRMED: the Pho broth is made from scratch

(btw - it's pronounced fuh, which is the name of the noodles)


http://www.photodayjax.com/ (http://www.photodayjax.com/)

https://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-today-jacksonville?adjust_creative=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA&utm_campaign=yelp_api&utm_medium=api_v2_search&utm_source=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA (https://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-today-jacksonville?adjust_creative=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA&utm_campaign=yelp_api&utm_medium=api_v2_search&utm_source=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a3yxpTIh3s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a3yxpTIh3s) <- so you know how to eat it the right way lol

Actually, it's *not* pronounced "fuh". Vietnamese is a tonal language and the O has a tone value (I think it might be a falling and rising tone). So, in a way, it's just as accurate to say "fo" as it is "fuh" as neither is really correct.
Title: Re: Pho Today! - Just had lunch there - is worth the stop
Post by: aldermanparklover on January 13, 2017, 07:34:41 PM
Quote from: Adam White on January 13, 2017, 06:06:34 PM
Quote from: aldermanparklover on January 13, 2017, 05:57:06 PM
Went today for lunch - ordered the X-Large Pho Tai for $9.25 (Is a MASSIVE bowl)

Is very, very good and CONFIRMED: the Pho broth is made from scratch

(btw - it's pronounced fuh, which is the name of the noodles)


http://www.photodayjax.com/ (http://www.photodayjax.com/)

https://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-today-jacksonville?adjust_creative=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA&utm_campaign=yelp_api&utm_medium=api_v2_search&utm_source=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA (https://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-today-jacksonville?adjust_creative=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA&utm_campaign=yelp_api&utm_medium=api_v2_search&utm_source=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a3yxpTIh3s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a3yxpTIh3s) <- so you know how to eat it the right way lol

Actually, it's *not* pronounced "fuh". Vietnamese is a tonal language and the O has a tone value (I think it might be a falling and rising tone). So, in a way, it's just as accurate to say "fo" as it is "fuh" as neither is really correct.

please do not confuse people here as you do in the politics section - thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySSDmBVf9J8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySSDmBVf9J8)
Title: Re: Pho Today! - Just had lunch there - is worth the stop
Post by: Adam White on January 14, 2017, 03:19:33 AM
Quote from: aldermanparklover on January 13, 2017, 07:34:41 PM
Quote from: Adam White on January 13, 2017, 06:06:34 PM
Quote from: aldermanparklover on January 13, 2017, 05:57:06 PM
Went today for lunch - ordered the X-Large Pho Tai for $9.25 (Is a MASSIVE bowl)

Is very, very good and CONFIRMED: the Pho broth is made from scratch

(btw - it's pronounced fuh, which is the name of the noodles)


http://www.photodayjax.com/ (http://www.photodayjax.com/)

https://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-today-jacksonville?adjust_creative=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA&utm_campaign=yelp_api&utm_medium=api_v2_search&utm_source=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA (https://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-today-jacksonville?adjust_creative=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA&utm_campaign=yelp_api&utm_medium=api_v2_search&utm_source=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a3yxpTIh3s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a3yxpTIh3s) <- so you know how to eat it the right way lol

Actually, it's *not* pronounced "fuh". Vietnamese is a tonal language and the O has a tone value (I think it might be a falling and rising tone). So, in a way, it's just as accurate to say "fo" as it is "fuh" as neither is really correct.

please do not confuse people here as you do in the politics section - thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySSDmBVf9J8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySSDmBVf9J8)

Thanks for providing a link that exactly confirms the point of my post. The woman does not pronounce it as "fuh". She pronounces the tone.
Title: Re: Pho Today! - Just had lunch there - is worth the stop
Post by: ben says on January 14, 2017, 05:34:47 AM
Having just gotten back from Vietnam, and eating more pho than I know what to do with, Adam is correct here...  ;)
Title: Re: Pho Today! - Just had lunch there - is worth the stop
Post by: Adam White on January 14, 2017, 05:43:14 AM
Although it's fun to wind up aldermanparklover, I am not too bothered about the pronunciation. It's just that I grew tired of hearing food snobs and hipsters tell people they were pronouncing it incorrectly - when they themselves weren't saying it correctly either!
Title: Re: Pho Today! - Just had lunch there - is worth the stop
Post by: aldermanparklover on January 14, 2017, 11:20:40 AM
Quote from: Adam White on January 14, 2017, 05:43:14 AM
Although it's fun to wind up aldermanparklover, I am not too bothered about the pronunciation. It's just that I grew tired of hearing food snobs and hipsters tell people they were pronouncing it incorrectly - when they themselves weren't saying it correctly either!

you are correct about saying it as fo ... I had mistaken your short o as sounding like long oo (which is how I hear people incorrectly say pho) but a quick trip to a youtube phonetics video set me straight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21b69Q-9S6c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21b69Q-9S6c)

but thanks for trolling my promotion of Pho Today - you should try it if you haven't
Title: Re: Pho Today! - Just had lunch there - is worth the stop
Post by: InnerCityPressure on January 14, 2017, 03:50:32 PM
We go here every time before a showing at Tinseltown.  We've been hitting Regency more since the renovations, but this is a good reason to head back to the T.