Tag: Vietnamese cuisine

Vietnamese Beef Stew recipe with Noodles or Bread (Bò kho)

In Vietnam, due to the geographical differences in cooking styles and spices, one dish can have many different regional interpretations. Beef stew is one of those dishes: Northern beef stew usually only has ginger and lemongrass, whereas the Southern version has five spices as well. The Northern stew contains much less juice compared to the […]

How to make Bubble Tea – recipe with ‘Soft Cheese Jelly’

FOREWARNING: This post is really going to indulge the inner child inside you. ‘Soft cheese jelly’? No – you’re not reading it wrong. You are probably having the same reaction I had last summer, when I came back to Hanoi over the school holiday and was introduced by my friends to this new ‘sensational’ delicacy: […]

Vietnamese Grilled Pork Skewers recipe

Perhaps the most attractive scent ever for humankind is the smell of meat grilling over an open fire. I would always remember grilled pork skewers as a childhood after school snack. There would always be a pork skewer stall in front of many schools in Vietnam, with the stall owner grilling the skewers on and […]