Recipes & Cooking : Vietnamese Recipes

Crab with Tamarind and Chili (Cua Rang Me)

Crab with Tamarind and Chili (Cua Rang Me)

Recently, my publisher Tuttle Publishing sent me a copy of their new cookbook called Little Vietnam by Nhut Huynh. I like the cookbook because I would actually use it. Some cookbooks are meant for reading, some for browsing and flipping through, while some are packed with recipes that I can see myself cooking from. This is the latter. This crab…

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Lemongrass Beef Skewers

Lemongrass Beef Skewers

It’s Labor Day weekend this week and I am sure many of you are throwing one last summer party before Fall arrives and the weather becomes colder. I have shared many summer recipes with you this year and I hope you have had a chance to try them out. I have two more recipes that will complete this summer. Let’s…

Lemongrass and Sriracha Grilled Shrimp

Lemongrass and Sriracha Grilled Shrimp

How’s your summer so far? I hope everyone has been busy firing out your grill, having endless pool parties, and more importantly, having a blast with your friends and family. If you’re looking for new barbeque recipes and ideas, I wish to tempt you with my upcoming Asian-style BBQ recipes. Let’s start with this mouthwatering lemongrass grilled shrimp, spiced with…

Pok Pok Wings (Vietnamese Fish Sauce Wings)

Pok Pok Wings (Vietnamese Fish Sauce Wings)

Pok Pok—the pounding sounds that a pestle made against a mortar during the making of Som Tam (Thai green papaya salad)—is a rising restaurant empire in the United States. A humble start in Portland, Oregon, Pok Pok has expanded to New York City, the culinary capital of the United States, with the launch of Pok Pok NY and Pok Pok…

Banh Mi with Lemongrass Pork

Banh Mi with Lemongrass Pork

I miss the breakfast breads in Vietnam during my travels, specifically Vietnamese-style baguettes (bánh mì). Here in the States, whenever I need my bánh mì fix, it’s a fifteen minutes drive to Little Saigon. Most of the time, there’s a line, so it takes even longer to get my fix. That’s why I decided to make it at home. Bánh…

Garlic Noodles

Garlic Noodles

About four years ago, I shared my take on the Vietnamese-style garlic noodles made famous by the An family of Crustacean restaurant. Garlic noodles remain my favorite noodle dish all these years, and the recipe is the ones that I have always tried to perfect each time I make the noodles. That’s the fun of cooking—our cooking skills and techniques…

Lemongrass Shrimp

Lemongrass Shrimp

I am lucky that I live in Orange County because I can pretty much get all the ingredients I want at the many ethnic food stores here. Whenever I want to cook Chinese, there is 99 Ranch Market. When I am in the mood for Japanese food, I go to Mitsuwa or Marukai. And when I need ingredients for Malaysian,…

Vietnamese BBQ Shrimp Vermicelli (Bun Tom Heo Nuong)

Vietnamese BBQ Shrimp Vermicelli (Bun Tom Heo Nuong)

Vietnamese BBQ  Shrimp Vermicelli or Bun Tom Heo Nuong is one of my favorite Vietnamese bun dishes. If you have tried Vietnamese food, I am sure you are familiar with bun, or dry rice vermicelli in nuoc cham (fish sauce) and topped with either grilled pork (thit), BBQ shrimp, sugarcane shrimp (chao tom), cha gio, tau hu ky, or a…

Vietnamese Spring Rolls (Cha Gio)

Vietnamese Spring Rolls (Cha Gio)

I am a huge fan of Vietnamese spring rolls, or cha gio, roughly means “minced pork rolls” in Vietnamese language. I don’t like most Chinese spring rolls or egg rolls served in the United States. They are mostly bad, filled with vegetables flavored with MSG. Some of them even taste like they are infused with a dose of antibiotics. I…

Caramel Shrimp (Vietnamese Tom Rim)

Caramel Shrimp (Vietnamese Tom Rim)

When it comes to one ingredient that I consume more than anything else in the world, it has to be shrimp. I love shrimp and I can eat it every day and for every meal. I am addicted to it. When I had caramel shrimp at Cat Restaurant in Little Saigon a few weeks ago, I fell head over heals…

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