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November 06, 2004
Good article in the Guardian on Vietnamese food
Karalee sends along this article in The Guardian about Vietnamese food, by Natacha Du Pont De Bie.
There are over 500 traditional dishes in Vietnam and the vast menu seemed to reflect this. Generally, a large menu is something to be suspicious of, but with so many cooks, each responsible for their own specialities, there is no chance of spoiled broth. The perfumes arising from the cooking pots enticed us to order more and more. I realised it wasn't a restaurant pandering to western tastes when I noticed four pages of sweet dishes alone. Asians may not eat dessert at the end of a meal but they snack on them all day, and the Wine Drunken Sticky Rice Balls was my favourite dish, neck and neck with the char-grilled squid and the lotus rhizome salad.
Yummm - can't wait.
Posted by oren at November 6, 2004 11:02 AM