Vietnamese fried savoury glutinous rice cakes or banh ran man (baan-ran-maan) is one of the most popular street foods in Vietnam. Imagine biting into those little oval-shaped cakes, you can feel and taste the crunchiness of the crust, the slight chewiness of the glutinous rice dough, and the savoury meat and vegetable filling inside. Served with […]
Being such a familiar dish among authentic Vietnamese meals, sweet and sour pork ribs – in my opnion – are actually not easy at all to be cooked to perfection. There are two most common flaws. Firstly, the ribs might be too hard and chewy, you tend to have to rip the meat off the […]
I feel like upon speaking about Vietnamese food and rice noodles, everyone would mention ‘phở’. But the world of Vietnamese culinary culture offers us so much more ways of devouring many types of different noodles (do check out our glossary to read further on different types of noodles available in Vietnam). If ‘phở’ is known […]
Crispy roast pork is a very popular dish in Vietnam. It goes well with steamed rice, rice noodle (with sweet and sour dipping sauce), or tastes great just on its own. Making this dish at home is not too difficult. The biggest issue that concerns many home-cooks is probably how to make the skin crispy […]
Perhaps the most attractive scent ever for humankind is the smell of meat grilling over an open fire. I would always remember grilled pork skewers as a childhood after school snack. There would always be a pork skewer stall in front of many schools in Vietnam, with the stall owner grilling the skewers on and […]
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