What’s My Craving? Hu Tieu Mi Kho from Pho King

 One weekend evening, I decided to make my way up to City Heights for my annual visit to that Pxx Kxxg place. Hard to believe they've been around for over a decade. Man, I remember when this was Thien Thanh.

Last time around, they brought me the wrong item….this time I made sure to get the Hu Tieu Mi Kho.

There's something about this dish that I really enjoy. It could be the variety of textures, from the crunchy Chinese celery and bean sprouts, the stretchy hu tieu, the more firm egg noodles.

Or perhaps the flavors; the char siu here is usually on the dry side, but nicely flavored; the leafy Chinese celery adds an even more intense peppery-briney taste. The salty-sweet soy sauce based broth, studded with pork and the clear mildly beefy-salty pho type broth means that should you want each bite to be unique….well, you can do that too.

The fried shallots add some bitter-sweetness; the scallions pungency.

I do work a bit to get this thing started. First, with my chopstick and spoon, I separate and mix. I then add in the celery and bean sprouts and mix even more. The large protein items get a dunk in either the clear or soy sauce broth. I'll then start dripping the broth onto noodles while I eat. By the end of the production I actually have a small noodle-soup dish with ground pork floating around.

Like I said; there's something about this particular dish that just fits me.

Plus, the customers here are sometimes quite interesting.

The young lady's ring tones were quite interesting as well…….

Pho King Restaurant
4658 El Cajon Blvd
San Diego, CA 92115

City Heights…..