On 1/23/2015 5:16 PM, Xeno wrote:
> On 24/01/2015 4:03 AM, notbob wrote:
>> On 2015-01-22, Dave Smith > wrote:
>>
>>> It was a first for me. I had been curious about Vietnamese food for
>>> years but never got around to trying it. Today my son and I went to
>>> Hamilton for something and were driving along looking for the place
>>> and passed an area where there were a number of Vietnamese stores
>>> and restaurants. After we got what we had gone there for we went
>>> back and had a late lunch/early supper. I can't begin pronounce the
>>> dish I had but it was rice vermicelli with a spring roll and grilled
>>> chicken. It was pretty tasty.
>>
>> While Viet food can be quite good and very tasty, some of it can also
>> be pretty boring. Not sure what it is, but the take-out I usta
>> frequent hadda lotta desert items for sale. While there were many
>> different looking food-stuffs, they were all contained the same thing,
>> some kinda rice gummy-bear concoction w/ day-glo green and pink
>> colors. Rows and rows of 'em. Weird stuff.
>
> Yes, used to get the same thing in Melbourne at our local Vietnamese
> food shop. Pretty bland stuff. You will find the Asian idea of a cake is
> different to yours as well. It will be either a horribly sweet jelly
> like thing or small cakes as you describe that are definitely flavour
> free zones.
>>
>> The thing I liked about this one place were the awesome bánh mì's.
>> They also had a display counter w/ hot dishes in bain-marie's. I
>> ordered a batch of little birds, baked whole. Very good. Another
>> thing I loved was the fresh soy milk. I will not buy that stuff in a
>> carton on the sprmkt shelf, but fresh, chilled, soy milk is quite
>> tasty. Very close to real milk. The pennywort drink was pretty good,
>> too, despite containing pennywort seeds almost as big as those tapioca
>> beads one gets in bubble drinks.
>>
>> I will be trying to bake bánh mì baguettes, this weekend.

I still find Pho Ga (chicken soup with noodles) to make a very good
lunch. For the record, my favorite place is Pho Nam, on Shady Grove Road
in Gaithersburg, MD.

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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