As part of our pre-group tour day in Saigon, we went to lunch.
The location was on the second story of a building; this is sort of thing I imagine would be in this part of the world.
Vietnamese Iced Tea. A lot like Thai Iced Tea: Heavily sweetened with the addition of some form of condensed milk.
The main dish: Shrimp....
Flambe!
Vietnamese lettuce wraps, a make your own sort of taco with lettuce as the wrapper:
Just a painting I liked:
Thanks for the visuals TB, the shrimp looked good and the waitstaff were checking out the flames......:)
ReplyDeleteIt was good, Nylon12!
DeleteI am sure flames have gone awry at least once...
I'm glad my house has limited wall space because I would have a fortune of paintings on my wall bought while on vacation after being spied somewhere.
ReplyDeleteEd, I have vastly limited my purchases because I am running out of wall space as well.
DeleteWhat a lovely place to enjoy a meal. The shrimp looks amazing.
ReplyDeleteLeigh, this is not the sort of place I usually dine in at home, so it was a treat.
DeleteThe fact that the it was about 25% of what it would have cost in the U.S. helped.
Your lettuce wraps look like my favorite Vietnamese dish, banh xeo, to get at Viet restaurants here in the states. Many people think it is an egg dish because it looks similar to an omelet, or French crepe, but there’s no egg. They are rice flour crepes, usually made with pork, shrimp and sprouts. It comes with fresh greens as you pictured, and an array of fresh herbs such as mint and cilantro. I love the sauce that comes with it, nuoc cham, usually made with lime juice, sugar, chili, Vietnamese fish sauce and some water. That sauce would make a paper bag taste good! The cookbook author Andrea Nguyen has excellent Vietnamese recipes and useful information especially for the nuoc cham sauce.
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