Authentic Vietnamese Beef Pho (Pho Bo)

Ingredients

• 3 pounds beef knuckles or neck bones with meat, see notes
• 2 pounds oxtail beef, see notes
• 10 cups water or enough to entirely cover meat
• 2 yellow onions large, peeled
• 1 fresh ginger root ½ size of small palm, roughly peeled
• 4 whole star anise with pods
• 1/2 tablespoon whole cloves
• 1 tablespoon black peppercorns
• 4 cloves garlic smashed
• 1 daikon peeled and cut into 3 pieces
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 3 shallots small, peeled
• 12 ounces rice noodles flat, pho noodles
• 1/2 cup fish sauce see notes
• 1 tablespoon salt plus more to taste, the original recipe calls for 2 Tbsp
• 12 ounces rice noodles flat, pho noodles, see notes
• 1 pound sirloin steak or top round, sliced paper-thin against the grain
• 1 yellow onion medium, sliced paper-thin on a mandolin
• 6 scallions chopped into rings
• Sriracha chili sauce
• hoisin sauce
• cilantro leaves Fresh
• limes Green, quartered
• mung bean sprouts
• thai basil leaves
• perilla leaves
• coriander leaves
• green chiles or Fresh whole red