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Old Dec 28, 2008 | 1:49 pm
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Originally Posted by MileageAddict
Northern Virginia has a significant Vietnamese population and there are Pho restaurants in just about every strip mall. I've been to a half-dozen of them and have found all of them to be absolutely delicious.

Is the word pronounced "foe: or more like "fuuuh?
Yea, Northern Virginia has great Vietnamese food. Although one of the best, Queen Bee, closed a few years ago. It is the latter pronunciation from what I can tell. I was told in Hanoi by a rather confused guide that when asking for the former, I was asking for a prostitute.
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