Beef soup
(Pho bo)

Ingredients:

- lkg beef bones - 400g thigh beef - 250g  slender loin beef - l,5kg  flat rice vermicelli - 300g soya-beans - 2 lemons, 3 onions - Red pepper, onion leaves

- Salt, black pepper, monodium glutamate - A hand of ginger - A small piece of cinnamon - Mashed salted soya-beans" - Mashed red pepper

To prepare:

- Clean beef bones and thigh beef. Drain them. Dry thigh beef with a towel. Fry ginger and onion on burning coal. Crush ginger lightly. Clean soya-beans and aromatic vegetables. Slice lemon and red pepper.

- Boil ten bowls of water and beef bones and thigh beef. Add some salt, some ginger and fried onion in the soup, and a small piece of cinnamon.

- Drain boiled thigh beef. Cut it in thin slices. Slice slender loin beef. Season the soup with glutamate and other spices, if necessary.

- Put some slightly boiled soya-beans, some boiled rice vermicelli, some thigh beef and slender loin beef into a bowl. Add some sections of onion and pieces of onion leaves. Pour the boiling soup into the bowl.

- Served hot with mashed salted soya-beans and mashed red pepper or slices of pepper, lemon. Also served with fresh soya-beans and sections of onion.

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