A bowl of noodles with beef. (Photo: Leisa Tyler/LightRocket/Getty Images)

According to the media outlet, the broth is simmered for hours with cinnamon, star anise, and other warm spices in order to create a wonderfully aromatic base for this rice noodle soup.

It noted that Phở is among the nation’s most recognized culinary exports, although the soup is a relatively new food, wrote Andrea Nguyen, author of “The Phở Cookbook”.

And while today’s Phở restaurants typically serve a wide range of flavors, beef is the original. By 1930, the soup was served with slices of raw beef cooked gently in the broth, CNN wrote.

The website shared that today, phở bò remains the most beloved version enjoyed by local people, with options including the original raw beef, a mix of raw and cooked beef, brisket and tendon.