Pho is literally "rice skin" in its Chinese characters, while it looks more like Yunnan "rice threads", "rice skin" is popular in Guangdong. Not sure about its

Pho is literally "rice skin" in its Chinese characters, while it looks more like Yunnan "rice threads", "rice skin" is popular in Guangdong. Not sure about its history, the wikipedia indicates some link to Chinese workers, it also does sound like "fen".