Question: are pho noodles rice noodles?
Answer: There are many kinds of rice noodles used in Asian cooking. Like Italian pasta, the shape and size of Asian rice noodles determine how they're used. For pho noodle soup and other pho noodle dishes, you want banh pho — flat rice noodles. ... Narrow rice noodles (linguine or fettuccine size) are perfect for pho noodle soup.