Spicy beef noodle soup

That's my favourite Vietnamese dish, spicy beef noodle soup. In fact, it's one of my favourite dishes of any ethnic type (hmm, this sentence doesn't sound totally right - bah, u know what I mean).

Apparently, the dish is also known as bún bò huế. Funny, I thought that's the name for another Vietnamese dish? *shrugs* Anyway, spicy beef noodle soup is very popular in Vietnam, & no wonder - it's so delicious. It's one heck of a dish. It tastes mainly of lemongrass, & as the name suggests, the soup is spicy. Here's a picture of what the dish looks like (taken from Wikipedia):


I had the dish yesterday for lunch (after church) at a Vietnamese place in Hawken Drive, called Chez Tessa. I was joined by BT, Winston, Pastor Steve, Keiyeng, Terence & Catherine. Only 1 other person besides me ordered the above dish. I think the last few times I visited Chez Tessa, I ordered spicy beef noodle soup. Each time, it tastes no less delicious than the previous visit. Now the dish at Chez Tessa had less greens than the above, & the soup looks less spicy than the above pic. But it was good.

Of course, I've also tasted the dish at various places, such as Quan Thanh, Kim Khanh, Cam Ranh, Market Square (forgot the name of that Vietnamese place), Queen St Mall. Out of these, Quan Thanh's spicy beef noodle soup is the best I have ever tasted - very very delicious. I wonder how the Vietnamese came up with this dish - it's great. Being my favourite Vietnamese dish, I invariably order this almost everytime I dine at a Vietnamese place. Of course, there would be lots of other tasty Vietnamese dishes, too, & I've tasted some of them. Just not nearly as often as the spicy beef noodle soup. Maybe I should venture into those other Vietnamese dishes. Oh well, there'll be plenty of time to do that...