1/ Choose the right type of rice paper which is thin enough to make the wrappers. For the dried shrimps, you can season them beforehand to ramp up your flavor. 2/ Let\’s build a fire: -Rinse scallions with fresh water. Slice them into small pieces. Put it under a hot grill…
1/ Try to find a jar of “Mam ca sac” in your neighboring Asian grocery store. If you\\’re out of luck, you give it a go by substituing it with regular fish sauce or possible “Mam nem” but I\\’d say, it won\\’t be the same at all, not to mention that they would…
1/ Coarsely mash beef meat and transfer them into a grinder or a food processor. 2/ Peel off your carrots, slice into thin pieces and put them all into a grinder to make a fine and smooth mixture. 3/ Bring a pot to a boil. Pour all of your glutinous rice flour into…
1/ How to make the filling: -Soak mung beans overnight or at leat 1 hour in lukewarm water. Transfer them out and grind into pieces. Preheat a saucepan, add a mixture of coarsely mashed mung beans and 90g of sugar. Cook them over a low heat for 15 minutes. When they form a…
1/ Rinse your pork meats well with water and drain them off. Bring a pot to a boil, add into that pot 1tsp. of seasoning stock and cook pork meats through. Remove them from the heat and put into a bowl of cold water. Slice them into thin pieces. If you…
1/ Sometimes it\’s really hard to translate from one language into another one without losing a fair amount of its significance. “Cốm” is a good example. It\’s pronounced with an upward interrogative term and different from “cơm”. “Cốm” can come from different parts of Vietnam but the most prized originates from Vong…
1/ Prepare a bowl to soak the flour in lukewarm water for 4 hours to make a fine and smooth batter. When the liquid becomes more transparent and the flour settles down to the bottom. Decant excess water on the surface and add more water to replace them. Continue to do…
1/ Prepare minced garlics and onions. 2/ Slice dried fillet of salted fish into 3cmx3cm pieces. Soak them in lukewarm water for 1h at least to make them softer, less salty and remove any dirt. Transfer fillets into a small bowl and shred them into thin and small threads. The thinner you…
1/ Rinse pork ribs with water. Bring a pot to a boil, put pork ribs into the pot and simmer them for about an hour. Remember to skim off foams floating on the surface of your broth to make the liquid more transparent. 2/ Soak ear fungus and shiitake mushrooms in separate small…
1/ Rinse pork bones with fresh water. Soak them in lukewarm water for 5 minutes at the longest. Transfer them all into a pot, add dried shrimps, sliced white raddish and fresh water to fully cover all the bones inside. Remember to skim off foams floating on the surface of your liquid.…
1/ Rinse bitter melons under fresh water. Split them into halves, remove the seeds inside and cut them into thin slices. If you prefer bitter melons to be less bitter, you can soak them in icy water for half an hour at least. This small trick would do a great job in…
1/ How to make the base of salad blending: Add 2 teaspoons of kumquat extracts + 1/2 teaspoons of salt + 3/2 teaspoon of seasoning stock 2/ Rinse lean meat over lukewarm water. Preheat a pot to put meat inside and cook them over a medium heat. Wait until they are fully cooked. Ladle…
1/ Rinse peas over fresh water and drain them off. Slice hams into small pieces. Set them aside. Bring out belly peppers and carrots to slice them into diced shapes. 2/ Beat the egg and pour it into a heating pan. Line the bottom with a thin layer of vegetable oil and preheat the…
1/ Peel off cassava completely. Slit a small ditch alongside of it then using your knife’s tip to split its skin. Rinse them over fresh water. Soak in cold water for an hour at the longest. This small trick would remove its sap and whiten its appearance. 2/ Use a grinder or grinding…
1/ Take pandan leaves and rinse them carefully under fresh water. Grind them into fine mixture with food processor. Use its extract and remove its residue. Pour the pandan’s essence into fresh water to make 400ml of liquid. 2/ Fill in gradually 200g of glutinous rice flour into the 400ml of liquid…
1/ Add all ingredients including rice flour, tapioca starch and baking soda in a bowl. Stir them well to make a smooth texture. Add sugar and salt into this mixture. 2/ Dissolve coconut milk in 100ml of lukewarm water. Pour the liquid into your prepared mixture above. Do it gently to avoid…
1/ Spread salt all over chicken’s skin to remove any disturbing flavor. Rinse and clean it under fresh water while stuffing spring onions and gingers into its cavity after gutting out the inside. This small trick would ramp up its taste to the fullest. 2/ Transfer your chicken into a pot filled…
1/ Wash split mung beans in fresh water, then bring them to a boil in a cooker. 2/ Grind previous cooked beans to dust and mix them well with sugar, vegetable oil, sesame seeds, vanilla, salt and shredded coconut flakes. Roll the mixture into small balls to make the fillings. 3/ Add sweet rice flour…
1/ How to make char siu. 2/ How to make noodles: +Use dried Cao Lau noodles (if available): Wash with fresh water to remove any dirt before soaking them in lukewarm water. When noodles become softer, steam them in a cooker to be done to a turn. +Or use Udon or soba…
1/ Wash shrimps in fresh water gently. Shell them off, devein and gradually pestle them in a mortar. 2/ Blend the mixture of ground meat and shrimps well. Add more sliced spring onions and season them with fish sauce, sesame oil, salt, bouillon cubes and black peppers for half an hour to…
1/ Preparation: + Fried soya sauce: frying them to golden color, then break them into pieces. +Mushrooms: dip them into boiling water, cut them into halves and quickly fry. + Vegetarian chopped meat: cut into pieces and quickly fry. + Soup: cut them into pieces and blend them with sugar cane,…
1/ Add rice flour, vegetable oil, salt and a cup of water into a bowl to dissolve them completely. Then microwave for 2-3 minutes until the mixture is half-cooked. Put tapioca starch to the mixture. Transfer them into a ricer. Press it gently and continuosly to make noodles release into a…
1/ Soak mung beans and glutinous rice. Blend and mix them well. Drain off the mixture for a short while. Add sugar into coconut milk. Stir them well under low heat for 5 minutes. 2/ Put sticky rice and mung beans into a cooker, then pour coconut milk into that mixture. Fill…
1/ Fry the dried shallot in boiling fat until they turn into golden color. Transfer them to a bowl then set aside. Rub roasted peanuts together with hands and blow the skin away, then pound them. Wash fresh herbs and cilantro in slightly saline water and drain them off. Place separately…
