CNN has ranked pho in its list of the 20 best soups globally, hailing it as a famous Vietnamese dish worldwide.
Regarding pho, CNN wrote in the list: “The broth is simmered for hours with cinnamon, star anise, and other warming spices, creating an exquisite aroma. Pho is one of Vietnam’s most globally recognized dishes, but it is, at its core, a relatively new creation.
Pho is a dish that international tourists cannot miss when coming to Vietnam.
While modern pho restaurants now offer various flavors, beef pho remains the original. By the 1930s, pho was served with slices of raw beef, gently cooked in the hot broth (bo tai). beloved version in Vietnam, with options ranging from pure raw beef to combinations of raw and cooked beef, brisket, and tendon.”
Janet Clarkson, author of Soup: A Global History, notes that soup is one of the oldest and most universal dishes in the world.
“Every culture has some kind of soup. It has very ancient origins,” she writes in her book, adding that humans have been cooking soup since the Bronze Age using metal pots.
Boiling food allows people to sustain themselves with grains, enriched with herbs and other ingredients added for medicinal purposes.
“I think in every country in the world, historically, some soups have been considered restorative,” she emphasized.
This holds true regardless of what it is called. Today, soups are typically lighter in broth, while stews are richer, but both fall under the broad category of soups.
With this definition, CNN selected the 20 best soups in the world, including pho: Banga (Nigeria), borscht (Ukraine), bouillabaisse (France), caldo verde (Portugal), chorba frik (Algeria, Libya and Tunisia), chupe de camarones (Peru), gazpacho (Spain), groundnut soup (West Africa), gumbo (USA), harira (Morocco), kharcho (Georgia), Lanzhou beef noodle soup (China), mohinga (Myanmar), menudo (Mexico), moqueca de camarao (Brazil), soto ayam (Indonesia), tom yum goong (Thailand), tonkotsu ramen (Japan), yayla corbasi (Türkiye).
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Source: Vietnam Insider