Vietnamese Cravings

Once or twice a month, a good friend and I visit our favorite Pho restaurant.  They've accommodated those of us wanting veggie broth, instead of beef, and always ask which you'd like when ordering the tofu. (For anyone who doesn't know: Pho, pronounced "fuh" like "duh", is a soup with rice noodles - add bean sprouts, green onion, jalapenos, etc to your protein of choice.) I ask my meat-loving friend to try my broth, to make sure it differs from hers - and the answer is always "yes".  Regardless, one day I will make my own Pho - just to be safe.  Sometimes when I go in, I order the tofu spring rolls and have those instead of anything else.  They (2 pieces) are HUGE, and based on their shape. . .incredibly phallic.  Thus, I turn fifteen shades of pink if any men are observing me while I "ooh" and "aah" over their awesomeness.  At some point, I will be brave enough to photo said rolls.

Whole Foods does their best to replicate it, and it's what I ate today:

**This was dipped into peanut sauce shortly after this picture.

While Whole Foods hasn't added Pho to their prepared menu, they do have these:

You know you've really won when they egg roll doesn't have any eggs in it.  And it tastes strongly of garlic.

I still have over half left, but I like to add chili sauce and peanut sauce to my noodle-salad-bowl.