Question Pho You
As I drove back home from the Gateway Arts District's open studios, on University Avenue alone we drove by several Vietnamese Pho restaurants (I love Pho and I love the taste that Plum sauce gives to the soup).
They all have names such as PHO 75, PHO 95, PHO 301, etc. Does anyone know what the number after the "Pho" stands for?
Saturday, December 12, 2009
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Here is one theory
http://www.lovingpho.com/pho-opinion-editorial/vietnamese-little-saigon-bolsa-pho-numbers/
i was told that it is the year they moved to the immigrated to the states.
Vietnamese restaurants typically have a specialty and the name tells you what the specialty is, which is pho soup. Adding a number to the name is an easy way to distinguish between the myriad of pho specialty restaurants. Those particular number are related to the location (Vietnamese are very tied to the land.) So Pho 95 is probably near I-95. Pho 301 is likely near Route 301. Pho 14 is just off 14th Street in Columbia Heights. You see this when traveling in Vietnam too. There are a bunch of Pho 75 restaurants in the DC area (it's a chain), and that happens to be a reference to the year that South Vietnam fell to the communists. In this case, it's a historical marker, but also another way to differentiate that pho restaurant from the others.
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