About Phố Phở, from BoardGameGeek:
Welcome to Ph Ph, the most chaotic street stall in town! You are competing to inherit the Chef's legendary Ph street stall. To prove your worth, you must balance broths, herbs, and meats to serve a line of picky eaters.
Ph Ph is a fast-paced, card shedding game of hand management and strategic sabotage. Players take on the roles of rival cooks trying to maintain a perfect reputation while slinging bowls of piping hot noodle soup. Be the first to earn the loyalty of two returning customers to win, but watch your back-if you serve an ingredient someone hates, you can always point the finger and blame your rival!
How to Play: On your turn, you can play 1 to 5 Ingredient Cards from your hand to serve the Active Customer (in the bowl) or the Side Customers waiting in line. You build bowls sequentially from Value 1 to Value 5, carefully managing your hand:
Singles, Sets, and Straights: Play a single ingredient, a set of identical cards to serve multiple customers simultaneously, or a straight of consecutive numbers to fill a single customer's bowl quickly.
The Perfect Recipe: Empty bowls must always start with Value 1 (Noodles), and subsequent cards must match the top value or be exactly one higher. Complete the order by capping it with a Value 5 (Topping) and a Bill Card. Emptying your hand entirely pleases the Chef and earns you a bonus!
Customer Demands & Sabotage: Every customer in the deck has specific ingredients they Love and Hate. Play an ingredient they love to flip one of your Favor Tokens to its Happy side. But if you play an ingredient they hate, the customer leaves immediately, the order fails, and you give one of your Mad Tokens to another player, effectively blaming the ruined dish on them!
Winning the Game:
There are two ways to claim victory:
Star Employee: Manage your reputation perfectly! If you flip all your Favor Tokens to the Happy side, you earn a Loyal Customer. Collect your 2nd Loyal Customer, and you win immediately!
Royal Decree: Manage your reputation carefully-if the King arrives for a surprise visit, the normal rules are suspended and only the chef with the most positive reputation will win his favor!
-description from the publisher
