When an American blogger named Tieghan Gerard naively dubbed her quick noodle soup recipe “chicken pho”, it caused a storm in a soup bowl. She was accused of whitewashing the iconic Vietnamese dish and misappropriating a culture and its people. Although the creator of Half Baked Harvest with millions of followers apologised and renamed her recipe “sesame chicken and noodles in spicy broth”, many...
Pho: The humble soup that caused an outrage
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