On 24/01/2015 1:29 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On 23 Jan 2015 17:03:44 GMT, notbob wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Maybe their desserts are boring (I'm not a dessert guy in any
> cuisine), but the real food is anything but boring or bland.
> Vietnamese is consistently some of the tastiest food on the planet due
> to the great use of the "Hot, pungent, sour, salty sweet" theory of
> food design.

That's how Thai food is described. I have never heard Vietnamese food
described quite like that. Vietnamese food tends to be boring by
comparison with Thai food. My wife and her niece went to Vietnam a
couple of years ago and found the food there tasteless according to
their palates. Vietnamese food in your area may be spiced up a little
compared to the average Vietnamese fare. Melbourne has a huge Vietnamese
community, Springvale being just one of them, and we would be down there
on average once every two weeks. That usually included a meal in a
Vietnamese restaurant. Once a couple of Thai restaurants appeared on the
scene there, the Viet restaurants were no longer visited - except for
the Pho restuarant mentioned in another post. That one, I might add, is
in Bayswater and is visited on occasions where shopping is not the focus.
>
> Come to think of it, I think I'll have some mam tom hue for dessert
> tonight (more pickled stuff!)
>
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>
> -sw
>
We have a number of Vietnamese friends in Melbourne and we find their
food to be bland. That said, you can spice up their dishes much the same
as the Thai variety as, after all, the basics are pretty much the same.

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Xeno.