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Ca Kho To – The best Vietnamese Braised Fish

Ca Kho To is a Vietnamese braised fish and another one of my favorites when traveling through Vietnam, which you can now do as of 2022! Vietnam, as I have mentioned many times, is my favorite

Eating

Bun Rieu – Vietnamese Crab Noodle soup

When it comes to Vietnamese noodle type soups, most people have heard of the unfortunately named “pho”, (pronounced more like poe then poo if that matters). Yet there is so much more to the soupy

Eating

Bun Mam – Vietnamese Noodle Soup

The Vietnamese like noodles and they like soup, so combining these two said loves is a regular occurrence, which is what led me to bun mam on a rainy day in Hanoi. To read about bun

Weird Food

Vietnamese Fast Food – Lotteria is it any good?

Move over McDonalds, Lotteria is the biggest fast-food franchise in Vietnam. It’s been a  while since I wrote about the fast food cuisine of a nation, with my being about the general culinary abortion that

Eating

Magnolia Restaurant – The best Vietnamese Restaurant in Phnom Penh

Magnolia Restaurant is the best Vietnamese restaurant in Phnom Penh. This is for a number of reasons, that I shall hopefully articulate perfectly. I’ve written a lot about Vietnamese influences on Cambodian cuisine. And there are

Eating

Banh Xeo – The best of Vietnamese Street food

Banh Xeo is truly the best of Vietnamese street food, in fact it is so good that it even crosses borders! Now living in Cambodia I have been treated to Banh Chao more than once

Recipes

Savoury Vietnamese Crepes, topped with Umami Mushrooms

(Serves 4) Crepes 140g besan/chickpea flour 140g tapioca flour 1 tsp turmeric ½ clove of garlic (finely chopped) ½ red chilli (finely chopped) 20ml coconut milk

Fast Food

Vietnamese Fast Food – Lotteria is it any good?

Street Food

Bánh bột lọc – The Weird and Wonderful of Vietnamese snacks

Bánh bột lọc is one of those weird and wonderful Vietnamese snacks that you only ever find by looking at it, wondering what the heck it is and simply ordering it. I’ve waxed lyrical about my

Soft-Drinks

Vietnamese Drinks – 10 of the best

Regular readers will know I have decreed Vietnamese street food as the best in the world, but of course man cannot live in food alone, he must drink. It turns out Vietnamese drinks are really