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It’s been a little over two weeks since my 10-day vacation to Portland, Oregon. I wish I had tried more of the street food vendors but overall I think I ate pretty well. Apizza Scholl’s was at the top of my food to-do list, which didn’t have much else on it as specific: food served from a truck, local fare, and noodles (obvs). I accomplished all of these things, and more! But for the sake of brevity and an inflated sense of content on this blog, I will not be covering everything I ate and photographed in one post. No, I shall draw it out, probably over the next two weeks. Let’s start with breakfast!

I already mentioned the totally delicious breakfast I had at Jam on Hawthorne, but let’s talk about the pho I had for my morning repast a couple days later at Pho Gia in Northeast Portland.

Pho Tai

It was really quite good but a bit heavy on the noodles and light on the beef.

Noodle overload!

Plenty of yelp reviewers had mentioned the clovey sweetness of Pho Gia’s broth and I agree but without issue. Aside from over-noodling, my only other problem was with the onions: having not been entirely severed from the core (?) the slices were all stuck together and difficult to separate. Is that too nitpicky? I don’t think so. Enjoying pho should be easy and uninhibited. After slurping as many noodles and spoonfuls of broth I could possibly contain, I drank my ca phe sua da (good, but not especially strong).

All done!

So that’s it for today, kids. I’ll be back soon with tales of the not-so-good noodles, the meat stuffed with other meat, and, of course, the pizza.