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Pho · San Jose

San Jose's Vietnamese corridor on Story Road produces some of California's most consistent bowls: deep marrow broth, fresh herbs and thin-sliced beef.

Vietnamese refugees who arrived in San Jose after 1975 brought pho north from Saigon and built the Little Saigon corridor on Story Road into the largest Vietnamese commercial district in California. By the 1990s Story Road had more pho shops per mile than anywhere outside Vietnam, and the broth style here leans toward the southern Vietnamese clear-but-rich tradition rather than the cloudier northern style.

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