Our Favorite Vietnamese Food

Don't know why but I was craving that nem nuong place I ate at 12 years ago. It was at the corner in Can Tho. You had to wrap the nem nuong in leafy stuff.

Man if I ever go back to Can Tho I'm going to hunt that place down if it's still open.

I'm a huge banh xeo fan. I like the banh xeo in Vietnam more. The ones over here seem more commercialized. Sorry mom.

My favorites are bun cha ha noi, banh khot, and so many types of banh mi.

There are lots of other things I like but I just don't know the names.

Khanh,

It's nem nuong Thanh Van, on the corner of Hoa Binh and Nam Ky Khoi Nghia.

VungTauDon wrote:

My favorites are bun cha ha noi, banh khot, and so many types of banh mi.

There was one place in Seattle served bún cha Hà Nội.  It was on the way back from the office where I was taking private lessons after I was too far along in the class to assemble one.  Agreed.  A fantastic dish. 

I just had the rest of the bánh xèo as a late snack.  Incredible, especially with all the leaves.

Wild_1 wrote:

Khanh,

It's nem nuong Thanh Van, on the corner of Hoa Binh and Nam Ky Khoi Nghia.

Hate the be the bearer but they closed a few weeks ago.   If they moved, we have not found the new location.  They seemed to be doing well.

Anything made by Madame Lirelou is great. Better than anything I've had in Vietnam or in other homes here in the U.S.. Living in Florida gives us the advantage of Asian markets and produce. We have Bun Xeo several times a month. She made Cha Gio two nights ago to bribe her doctor, so we had Bun Cha Gio with freshly fried cha gio that night and yesterday. The Thai Basil and other mints we grow in the yard, along with lemon grass and papayas.

One advantage of my military career was that each post had a small group of Vietnamese wives from various parts of Vietnam, who would hang together, trade recipes, and get together for communal meals. Kim learned to make Bun Bao from a friend and I far prefer her Bun Bao over any commercial variety. She always insists on Alsatian yeast, quail or duck eggs, high grade chinese sausage, and if she puts in ground pork with chitterlings she pan grills it before hand with a red chinese barbecue seasoning and drains the fat before adding it to the bun bao.

I believe every Vietnamese monk and priest who passed through Seoul between 2001 and 2007 ended up at my house for meal. One night we even had some visitors from the VN embassy, who had tagged along with a Viet-American diplomat.

ChrisFox wrote:

but they closed a few weeks ago

What???  Budman, I hope you didn't have anything to do with this.

Fresh spring rolls. Simple but delicious. In US when entertaining guests I always served up sushi, hot pot or spring rolls. There's an endless variety to make and people can customize it however they please.

ChrisFox wrote:

Hate the be the bearer but they closed a few weeks ago.   If they moved, we have not found the new location.  They seemed to be doing well.

Hey man, my people just checked and the place is still open, at the same old location.  So, what were you talking about?

Wild_1 wrote:

ChrisFox wrote:

Hate the be the bearer but they closed a few weeks ago.   If they moved, we have not found the new location.  They seemed to be doing well.

Hey man, my people just checked and the place is still open, at the same old location.  So, what were you talking about?

That's what my partner told me, I read him the address.  I only know the one nem nướng place here, they're gone, he says that was the one you mentioned.  I'll check out the one you named, see if it's the same.  Sounded the same to me.

*shrug*

while at work today I was thinking man ChrisFox eats at that nem nuong place? That place can give you a heart attack with it's greasy food. Glad you proved me wrong.

Oh, yeah that huge freshwater crustacean, that's delicious

ChrisFox wrote:

That's what my partner told me, I read him the address.  I only know the one nem nướng place here, they're gone, he says that was the one you mentioned.  I'll check out the one you named, see if it's the same.  Sounded the same to me.

*shrug*

Are you trying to be funny, man???

Wild_1 wrote:

ChrisFox wrote:

That's what my partner told me, I read him the address.  I only know the one nem nướng place here, they're gone, he says that was the one you mentioned.  I'll check out the one you named, see if it's the same.  Sounded the same to me.

*shrug*

Are you trying to be funny, man???

I'm lost here.  No, I'm not tryng to be funny and don't see how one could construe that.  Sorry for the mistake.

Goi cuon, my wife make for me without pork. Fresh and delicious !