Phở trộn is mixed pho served in what style?

Phở trộn is mixed pho served in a salad style. Rather than arriving as a bowl of broth, it combines cooked phở noodles with fresh herbs and dressings, making it a mixed noodle dish with a salad-like presentation.

Phở is best known as a Vietnamese soup of rice noodles, broth, herbs, and meat, but Vietnamese cuisine includes many preparations that use phở noodles without soup. Phở trộn belongs to that broader family, alongside stir-fried, rolled, dipped, and hotpot-style variations.

The dish is easy to confuse with phở xào, in which phở noodles are sautéed, or phở cuốn, in which ingredients are wrapped in fresh rice noodles. The defining idea in phở trộn is mixing the noodles with herbs and dressing. Phở itself emerged in northern Vietnam in the early 20th century and later developed many regional and non-soup forms.