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30/06/2019

It’s been a while since we last met and cooked somthing together. Life’s just got a little “complicated” now when we are no longer students but working parents (some of us are). But our passion for Vietnamese food still remains. Here is what we cooked together recently: bánh ram ít (sticky rice dumplings), bánh bột lọc (tapioca dumplings), bánh bèo (steamed rice cake) and bánh nậm (flat steamed rice dumplings), all inspired by cusine in Hue, former capital in central Vietnam.

19/04/2016

Even though it just turns spring now in Sweden, having a couple of summer rolls with peanut sweet sauce for a snack in the sun makes us feel like summer is almost here! That feeling of freshness...!

15/04/2016

A bowl of "Pho" for a sunny day like today. Indeed, "Pho" is known as one of the most well-known Vietnamese dishes.

Read the article that we posted a couple of days ago and you will understand!
http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/eat/40-delicious-vietnamese-foods-217572/

14/04/2016

How many of these have you tried? CNN travel listed the most 40 delicious Vietnamese dishes that you should be really trying. Find your chopsticks now!!!!!

From pho to canh bun -- the foods best slurped, crunched and enjoyed from a plastic stool

12/04/2016

When it comes to Vietnamese food, you probably hear a lot about spring rolls but have you known about "nem chao"? As one of typical dishes from Central Vietnam, it is a kind of rolls made from grilled pork marinated with lemon grass and different kinds of herbs. And how to enjoy it? Forget knives and forks or even chopsticks. Just your fingers are enough!

08/04/2016

Stockholm just had a light rain today. So I guess nothing is better than having a warm bowl of rice vermicelli soup with Vietnamese-style-meatballs and giant elephant ear's stalks, a special kind of vegetables in Vietnam. Hold your chopsticks and enjoy with us!

03/04/2016

Bun thit nuong (Rice noodles and barbecue pork) is a very common dish in Vietnam where we can find almost everywhere on the streets. Bun thit nuong varies in different regions of the country. In the northern region of Vietnam, we are more familiar with the name Bun cha (also rice noodles with barbecue pork, but usually the ground pork in the meat-ball shape). But in the central and the southern parts, the pork is usually skewed on the bamboo sticks or finely sliced before grilling. Depending where you eat it, there will be some differences regarding spices used to marinate the meat, what type of herbs to serve with or how the spiciness of the fish sauce to be adjusted (e.g the southerners usually prefers the sugar sweet taste of the sauce while the northerners want it to be more balanced between the sweetness and the sourness). But in general it is indeed a perfect combination of rice, meat, green vegetables, sauce and some spices, a must-try type of food in spring and summer.