Google Doodle on Sunday honors pho, Vietnam’s national dish that is served as an aromatic soup brimming with savory broth, soft rice noodles, fresh herbs, and thinly sliced meat. What makes pho distinct is a mindful cooking process to achieve multi-layered flavors and a clear broth, said Google Doodle. From ingredients like roasted ginger, fennel seed, star anise, and cinnamon for the simmered stock, the broth serves as the foundation for aromas and tastes for every palate.

While its exact origins are unknown, most historians think phở was born in northern Vietnam’s Nam Dinh province between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. People started to use beef consommé to make an early predecessor to phở—a simple but very popular noodle soup called xao trau which consisted of buffalo meat cooked in broth and rice vermicelli.

Traditionally, pho is a breakfast dish sold in street food stalls but pho consumption has moved into everyday comfort food. Today, pho is eaten worldwide in countless variations such as dry pho, chicken pho, pho rolls and many more. Everyone can agree that the noodle dish is a treasured element of Vietnamese heritage, noted Google Doodle.

A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepages intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and notable historical figures of particular countries.

Source: VOV5