Teo Bun Bo Hue

By Matthew Korfhage

8220 SE Harrison St., No. 230, 208-3532. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

You don't need a menu at Teo Bun Bo Hue. The friendly server at this tastefully appointed Vietnamese soup shop will ask you only one question: chicken or beef? There is no wrong answer. Beef (both bowls are $10.50) means bun bo Hue, and is a whirlwind of spicy, sour and sweet swimming with iron-rich cakes made from blood, meatcakes and trotters. Teo forgoes the chili-oiled heat for sweet-floral richness, and serves up the soup with a salad of sprouts, coriander leaves and purple shiso. That said, the chicken pho is even better. It is a pure and rich chicken stock stuffed with noodles and bone-in chicken, like something your grandmother would try to inject you with as a cure for the flu.

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