Cross-legged on a flat cushion on the floor of a hidden-away Sapa restaurant, Darling Man asked me if I’d like to try a special vegetable from northern Vietnam. It.
12 years ago
A few months ago, when morning sickness was making me feel wretched, mainly in the afternoons and evenings, Darling Man decided to treat me to “medicine food” in the.
12 years ago
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves training two very handsome French foodies and one almost-four-year-old in the fine arts of Vietnamese cooking. You may select a.
12 years ago
Pottering around the brilliantly-named Chess Board Market in Ho Chi Minh City, I discovered a new dish, bun nouc leo (bún nước lèo). Not knowing what lèo meant, my brain.
12 years ago
Bun cha Hanoi (bún chả Hà Nội) is, if it’s not immediately obvious, a specialty from Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi. Luckily for me, bun cha is available all over Vietnam,.
12 years ago
Bun moc (bún mọc) is one of the lesser-known Vietnamese noodle soups. And like a lot of lesser-known dishes, I had never even heard of it until Darling Man.
13 years ago
Central Vietnamese cuisine is usually defined by Hue Imperial food and a few popular dishes from the pretty World Heritage-listed town of Hoi An. But there’s so much more.
13 years ago
Bot chien (or bột chiên with the appropriate tone markers) is usually translated as “fried flour” but it is more like Singapore’s carrot cake or Southern China’s turnip or.
13 years ago