LOL - Obviously, you have been trained to eat "inferior" Pho in the U.S.

IMHO, there are a few decent places for Pho in California and other places with large Vietnamese enclaves, but in Vietnam, good Pho can be found at every street corners.

Even among the Vietnamese, they can't even agree to who has the better Pho, northern or southern style Pho.

Check out Noodlepie, it's a blog about Vietnamese food by a British journalist living in Vietnam. He talks about Pho quite often (page 2 & page 3) and his debate on this touchy subject that most Vietnamese would try to avoid Hanoi vs. Saigon Pho and cuisines.