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Wednesday, July 07, 2004 :::

Waiter, there's a bad pun in my soup.

Apparently there is a delicious Vietnamese beef noodle soup called "Pho" that's a "a staple in the old country." The interesting part is that the word is not pronounced "foe," but with more of an "uh" sound "with a raised tone" at the end, allowing restaurants to get creative with their names:






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actually, the picture of pho'shizzle is a edited picture. The restaurant is actually Pho' Tô Chau as seen in this website http://www.greatwallmall.com/stores/photochau.html

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