Mar 3, 2007

Food Photos
To continue on with the series Family, Food, Friend, Fun and F.... yah you wish! This next series is about the authentic very Vietnamese (and very my family kinda food). Enjoy

The famous Pho (Vietnamese Beef Noodle)


Banh chung (Made from meat, green bean stuffing and sticky rice skin. The green color is from the wrap leaves when we boil it. It represents Vietnam as a square earth with animals (meat) and plants (beans) and green and filled with rice (cos we are agriculture nation))Chicken porridge (This is how we cook at my house, dumping the whole chicken inside)
Grilled prawns (Very big and very juicy. At home I eat the prawn head fully scaled also. We don't waste anything from the sea, that's what sea people do :p)
Fish
This is the type of fish that is pregnant and it had chewable bones. So basically you can eat the wholething just like that. And it was fried together with crumb. I like to eat this a lot when I was at my hometown by the sea

Grilled squid
7 giant squids grilled. This is just like 1 of them :p I L.O.V.E sea food. Muahaha
Nem
Another authentic Vietnamese food that a lot of my Singaporean friends refused to eat. Simply because it's ... raw. It's pork with some boiled skin and then wrapped inside guava leaves and some other leaves and leave until the good virus made the whole thing sour (think yoghurt). It's super ultra nice and cool!
Bo luc lac
A typed of stewed beef with onion. The beed is very thick and very sweet :)
Pha lau
Think Chinese has this too. It's pig stomach stewed like about 6 hours in coconut juice and and wine and spices. Very rich in flavour and very chewy
Banh can
Authentically from the south, this is banh can. What you do is have a charcoal stove (yes, I blew the fire by charcoal and woods). Then you ground rice into powder, mix them with water and put them in. After that you put a bit of egg in. Then the whole thing will become like a type of cake, fluffy, very soft and very nice. You eat this with tomato fish sauce and fri spring onion, which is amazing :)

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