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Fill each bowl with rice noodles, shredded cooked beef and raw meat slices. As soon as the broth comes back to a boil, ladle into each bowl. the hot broth will cook your raw beef slices. Serve immediately. Guests can garnish their own bowls as they wish.

Excerpt from recipe by steamykitchen

Firstly, you need to char your ginger, shallots, garlic and briefly roast the star anises, cinnamon stick and cardamom.

Excerpt from recipe by Food Lover’s Journey

My Friend Jim Pavlidis did a great illustration for a John Lethlean’s recent article No place for friend or pho in last Saturdays A2 section of The Age. The Age Online didn’t publish the illustration, so I thought I would, (with Jim’s permission).

Soupynoodle shares a similar love for noodles and drawing as me. See work on flickr or photoblog.

My friend Morgan has revamped his website with a great set of drawings that he made on a recent trip to Sri Lanka and Thailand.