when the frothy stuff stops coming up heavy(basically stops foaming the top) , thats when you turn it to SIMMER... it took 20min or so this time... BUT continue to keep cleaning the dirty stuff that rises to the top even while its just simmering
Okay..
TAKE OUT the Ginger...
ADD about 12-16 Oz. of warm water to the pot ... just come close
ADD 2 table spoons of the Cot Pho Bo to the pot and stir .... (the beef flavored pho soup base) in little brown container
Now you are going to take that very illegal looking bag of mixed Herbal Mix and open it... inside you will find a tied bag full of seeds and the other shit....
We take the bag and untie it... Take Half the seeds out
then we take about HALF of the other shit and put in the bag with the seeds that are left and tie it back tight ...
ADD the bag to the pot...
fwiw, we only use half the other shit because we are cooking about a medium size portion of Pho ... (if we were making more, we would use all that shit in the herbal bag, but we arent and its overkill for todays portion)