In the buzzing matrix of Hanoi’s old quarter sits Phở Thìn, one of 700-or-so pho restaurants that speckle this thousand-year-old city. Phở Thìn is practically outfitted with stainless steel tables, ...

If an alien landed in Seattle, it might get the impression the city runs on coffee and pho. There are as many pho restaurants as Starbucks coffee shops. This humble soup, a breakfast staple in Vietnam ...

There are seemingly countless Vietnamese pho houses spread across Southern California, many of which seem to have been cut from the same cloth — functional cafés serving steaming bowls of pho in ...