Question: Who originally ate Pho?
About the article "Pho", section "From Cantonese".

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Pho originated in the early 20th century in northern Vietnam, apparently southeast of Hanoi in Nam Định Province, then a substantial textile market.
The traditional home of pho is reputed to be the villages of and (or ) in Đông Xuân commune, Nam Trực District, Nam Định Province.
According to villagers, pho was eaten in long before the French colonial period when it was popularized.
Pho was originally sold at dawn and dusk by roaming street vendors, who shouldered mobile kitchens on carrying poles (').
From the pole hung two wooden cabinets, one housing a cauldron over a wood fire, the other storing noodles, spices, cookware, and space to prepare a bowl of pho.
Pho vendors kept their heads warm with distinctive, disheveled felt hats called '.
Hanoi's first two fixed pho stands were a Vietnamese-owned Cát Tường on Cầu Gỗ Street and a Chinese-owned stand in front of Bờ Hồ tram stop.
They were joined in 1918 by two more on Quạt Row and Đồng Row.
Around 1925, a Vân Cù villager named Vạn opened the first "Nam Định style" pho stand in Hanoi. ""
declined in number around 1936–1946 in favor of stationary eateries. 
Pho was originally sold from elaborate carrying poles.
From the pole hung two wooden cabinets, one housing a cauldron over a wood fire, the other storing noodles, spices, cookware, and space to prepare a bowl of pho.
Today, however, pho is usually sold at fixed stands surrounded by tables and stools. 
"Chao pho" or "jao poh" literally means “godfather.” Chao pho are mostly of Han ethnicity based in the provinces who have business interests in both legitimate and criminal activities.
Moreover, they have groups of associates and followers, move closely with powerful bureaucrats, policemen and military figures, sit in positions in local administration, and play a key role in parliamentary elections.
"Chao pho" mostly come from a Hanethnic background. 
Pho resides in Los Angeles, CA, publishes under the name Asian Sin SESAC, and mentored by Lonnie Marshall at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music.<br>Controversy<br> Also there is the controversial "Laptop Incident" in which Pho, who allegedly may have been crazed by drug use, destroyed his roommate's laptop.
The laptop was smashed because Pho suspected it was being used to spy on him.
The laptop was never replaced or repaired. 
French settlers commonly ate beef, whereas Vietnamese traditionally ate pork and chicken and used cattle as beasts of burden.
Gustave Hue (1937) equates ' to the French beef stew ' (literally, "pot on the fire").
Accordingly, Western sources generally maintain that ' is derived from ' in both name and substance.
However, various scholars dispute this etymology on the basis of the stark differences between the two dishes.
Ironically, pho has long been pronounced (it sounds more flat with Vietnamese) in French: in Jean Tardieu's "Lettre de Hanoï à Roger Martin Du Gard" (1928), a soup vendor cries "Pho-ô!"
in the street.
Many Hanoians explain that the word ' derives from French soldiers' ordering "" (fire) from ', referring to both the steam rising from a bowl of pho and the wood fire seen glowing from a "" in the evening.
Food historian Erica J. Peters argues that the French have embraced pho in a way that overlooks its origins as a local improvisation, reinforcing "an idea that the French brought modern ingenuity to a traditionalist Vietnam".