Vietnamese Ambssador to Israel Ly Duc Trung and chefs of Attilio cooking school make Pho at the event. Photo: VNA

The Vietnamese Embassy in Israel introduced Pho - a traditional Vietnamese noodle soup - to international friends and local people at Attilio cooking school in Or Yehuda city, VOV reported.

In his speech, Ambassador Ly Duc Trung briefed participants on Vietnam’s distinctive cuisine, including Pho, as well as major ingredients to make the dish that is popular among foreigners worldwide.

To organize the event, he said the Vietnamese Embassy had invited chefs of Sofitel Metropole hotel in Hanoi to give instructions to chefs of Attilio cooking school via videoconferencing. All the ingredients had been prepared by the Vietnamese embassy’s staff.

The diplomat expressed his hope that the event would give participants a greater understanding of Pho, to help bring the traditional Vietnamese dish closer to international friends and local people.

The introduction of Vietnamese Pho is part of activities in celebration of Israel’s Independence Day (April 26), and 30 years of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Israel (July 12) this year.

For his part, Chico Karolizky, director of Attilio cooking school, shared that he's very proud to organize the 'Night Pho' event and hear about traditional Vietnamese dishes. "This is my first time enjoying Pho, very delicious. It's great that we can learn more traditional dishes of different countries."

Pho was developed in the north of the country during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The pho obsession spread to the south in the 1950s, when the country was divided and millions of north Vietnamese brought their soup recipe with them to the south.

A bowl of “pho” contains flat, soft rice noodles dipped in a fragrant beef or chicken broth flavored with different condiments. It is served with beef or chicken, shallots, and chili and lime to taste.

According to Australia’s tourism website traveler.com.au, pho is surely Vietnam's greatest culinary gift to the world.

An article posted on the web said people can argue long into the night about the world's best soup. Maybe it's ramen, laksa, bouillabaisse or caldo verde or even Moroccan bessara. What people can't argue, however, is that Vietnam's most famous soup, the pho, is in the conversation.

It affirmed pho is a fragrant, subtly powerful dish that's even greater than the sum of its considerable parts. Its broth is a gently simmered stock of beef bones with onion, ginger and spices; it arrives pooled around banh pho, or flat rice noodles, and rare beef slices, topped with bean sprouts, fresh herbs, lemon and chilli. The aroma is transcendent. The taste is perfection.

December 12 has been marked as the Day of Pho in celebration of the nation's most well-known dish.

Earlier, the prestige food website TasteAltas included pho among the world’s 100 most popular dishes.

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