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Pho spices and fish sauce
The soul of pho is the broth: sweet bones, charred onion and ginger, and dry spices such as cinnamon, star anise, black cardamom, clove and coriander seed. This collection covers fish sauce, soy sauce, cooking oil, salt, rock sugar and ready-made pho spice kits. Read the fish sauce label for protein level and ingredients; good fish sauce is amber, fragrant and salty with a sweet finish. Toast dry spices briefly before they go in the pot to wake them up, and tie them in a cloth bag so they are easy to lift out. Store spices in sealed jars somewhere dry.
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