Christmas Celebrations

Dr. G wrote:

Hello to all and a Happy holiday season. Where is your favorite place (in Saigon) this time of year to have a delicious Christmas dinner including the turkey and cranberry sauce and pumpkin or pecan pie? Thanks for you feedback.

Happy Holiday Season?

Merry Christmas!

I will be cooking a full English traditional Christmas dinner at home this year, although I have opted for roast duck rather than turkey. I will be roasting the duck whole rather than smashing it to pieces and serving it with razor sharp bone fragments in it though.

There will be chestnut stuffing, roast spuds and all the usual stuff, although I haven't yet been able to find any parsnips. I s'pose I will have to roast some carrots instead. I'll be making a sugar free (because with all the fruit involved in the recipe, sugar isn't necessary) Christmas cake again this year and have already set the dried fruit, dates, cranberries, raisins and cherries to soak in brandy.Last years cake went down very well with our Vietnamese friends and there have been numerous requests for it  again this year.

When I was in Hong Kong recently I had smoked roast duck which was very nice. I asked the chef what he had used to smoke the duck and he told me that it had been hot smoked with green tea. I might see if I can manage to smoke the duck without our smoke detectors going crazy.

For those who want to eat out this festive season, the May bar and restaurant (just round the corner from the Majestic hotel) does a very nice steak topped with Foi Gras.

Mekong Merchant usually has a Christmas menu too: http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant … _City.html

Cheers and  a very Merry Christmas to all.

Thank you very much for your interest in replying to my question. I will continue to look for a better Christmas dinner than I had last year - certainly must be an upgrade, at least.

Sounds good my friend.
Havnt had a Xmas for a number of years.

Cheers.
Greg

Thanks very much, I'll have a look at your website. Happy holidays to you.

At home, with the family, on BMT, cauterising a turkey on the gas/wood barbeque.

Hard to be beat!

The Lotte Legend Hotel had a good recommendation in 2011, Maybe they kept up the standard: tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g293925-d306225-r126429494-Lotte_Legend_Hotel_Saigon-Ho_Chi_Minh_City.html

We had Christmas dinner in the Caravel hotel a couple of years ago and that was pretty good.