Must have ingredients for a well-stocked kitchen

• bouillon,
• salted radish,
• cải bắp thảo ( preserved cabbage in the jar )
• sesame oil ,
• rock sugar ,
• anise stars ,
• five spices,

For Phở : yellow onion, ginger, anis stars must be roasted until partly burnt, that not only flavor but color of the soup too.

For mì and hủ tiếu,dry squid, yellow onion also roasted ,salted radish another secret