Of all the basic cooking lessons for beginners, “choosing the ingredients” is the most important. It requires the ability of complex measuring & estimating, which brings out many hard questions that only a very careful housewife can give the…
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Golden Spoon Awards
When “Kaya Jellyfish Noodle Soup” participated in the Golden Spoon Awards, it was titled with a more romantic name: Endlessly Expanded Fishing Village. The reason is that besides the main ingredient—the rice jellyfish that can only be found in…
The image of family members gathering around to have dinner and share their meal together, which is different from the European culture, shows the most original and traditional characteristic of Vietnamese culinary culture. And it was hot pot that…
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Squid Salad with Ambarella Leaves & Grilled Lemongrass Beef Served with Fine Rice Vermicelli
Professor Tran van Khe once commented that the “Vietnamese [are] best at knowing how to eat in an all-round manner, meaning eat using all five senses. First of all, eat with the eyes: the food is presented in an…
There are three styles of consuming forest leaf vegetables in our country: wraps of leaves with coarse salt, tiny chili pepper, and some sauce of the people in the Highlands; wraps of dew-wetted rice paper and boiled pork from…
The research fellows on world cuisine have provided the following analysis: a good cook is only called a cook, but to become a chef one needs to know how to run the whole kitchen of a restaurant. The level…
The term “man” (plum) here should be explained right away: it is the Southern plum which is the “roi” fruit as called by Northerners. Plum belongs to the Prunus genus of plant. Its flowers bloom in bunches, spreading fragrance.…
In the memories of Phu Yen’s old men, there was always soapfish in the last season of the year. It is a type of shark which has the-one-and-only delicious skin. In the old days, whenever a soapfish was caught,…
The inventive achievement of Executive Chef Duong Duc Huan—the champion of the Southern regional semifinal round in the Golden Spoon Awards 2013— was a plate consisting of colorful vegetables: the green color of vegetables, the yellow and red colors…
Spring rolls (or Nem, or Cha Ram) is a popular dish and has undergone a lot of modification. But whatever modification, its indispensable ingredient is black fungus or tree ear fungus. Because of its shape like an “ear of…