By Lili Tu 22 April 2021
When an American blogger named Tieghan Gerard naively dubbed her quick noodle soup recipe chicken pho , it caused a storm in a soup bowl. She was accused of whitewashing the iconic Vietnamese dish and misappropriating a culture and its people. Although the creator of Half Baked Harvest with millions of followers apologised and renamed her recipe sesame chicken and noodles in spicy broth , many Vietnamese Americans believe the title change was not sufficient and that the issue extends far beyond food, especially with the current rise in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans. You think you know pho, but you really don t because pho changes