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The pho at Pho Binh is in the North Vietnamese style,
pho bac, common in Hanoi. The menu at the Finn Hall location is short and sweet offering beef noodle soup (
pho bo) with options of brisket (lean or fatty), rare steak, tender flank, beef tendon or beef meatballs. Chicken noodle soup (
pho ga) is available as well as plain noodle soup. Bone marrow is offered as a side to add to the pho along with extra meat, noodles and egg. For starters there are eggrolls and chicken cabbage salad with ginger fish sauce dressing.
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Punch has always been eager to start the party early. Bowls brimming with the refreshment began to grace hallway tables in the colonies in the late 1600s. But its popularity blossomed in the next century, when imbibers mixed rum or whiskey or brandy or all three with citrus and sugar. Particularly ubiquitous in ports where these provisions were easy to gather, punch was favored by classes both upper and lower.
With the advent of the cocktail, however, the libation fell from favor, either retreating to rarefied enclaves such as society balls or weakening into sherbet-dolloped versions suitable for church picnics. Only in more recent years have bartenders rediscovered the pleasures of the bowl, and today it’s not uncommon to spot an iced punch prominently displayed on a craft-cocktail bar. It was no surprise, then, that when