Vietnamese chicken and pineapple dish
Until I started leafing through my new Vietnamese and Malaysian cookbooks, I never realized how much similarity there is among the cuisines of Southeast Asian countries. For instance, there is a Malaysian dish very much like our own nilagang baka but comes with whole caps of black Chinese mushrooms and is served with soy sauce [...]
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Vietnamese barbecued pork with garlic and egg fried rice
I bought four new cookbooks over the weekend — two Vietnamese and two Malaysian — and, so far, I’ve cooked two dishes from recipes in the cookbooks. I thought I’d start with the simpler ones since I’m not that familiar yet with Vietnamese and Malaysian cooking. We had grilled pork, Vietnamese style, last night. There’s [...]
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Vietnamese-style beef noodle soup
Noodle soups are very Asian. While I grew up with Chinese noodle soups, more popularly known in the Philippines by the generic name of mami, I have come to love Vietnamese noodle soups as an adult. One of the basic differences between Chinese and Vietnamese noodle soups is the kind of noodles used. Egg noodles [...]
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