Cure The Flu Blues: Half-Conscious Notes on Making Pho Ga

Unless you've been living in a bubble the last two months, you've probably noticed that just about everybody in the country has been hit with the monster flu bug this season. And needless to say, cooking is probably the last thing any flu sufferer is up to, much less getting out of bed. But if you've got a sweetly devoted and/or guilt-ridden significant other, like Thy Tran over at Bay Area Bites, there is an answer to the flu blues in the form of the traditional Vietnamese rice-noodle soup called Pho Ga:

"Now, lest you think that I'm married to a kitchen wizard, let me just say that during the five years he lived alone, the only meat he ever bought was bacon and he never, ever, not once, turned on his oven. Fortunately, the best foods for the soul are always the simplest."

Call it Jewish Penicillin, Vietnamese style. Check out her Half-Conscious Notes on Making Pho Ga for the recipe. And if you can't find somebody to cook for you, there are plenty of great places in town to get Pho, as the SF Weekly's own Meredith Brody found out recently.

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-- Brian Bernbaum