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@sendai.bsky.social

Guy walks into a place called “Vietfood” and asks for a Pad Thai. When told they don’t make that, he orders a chicken satay instead.

I couldn’t keep a straight face.

#Overheard

September 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM

Q

@qwalf.bsky.social

Vietfood!!

May 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM

nitnatkat (she/her)

@nitnatkat.bsky.social

got my pho fix 😌 i love pho so much 🥹

#pho #vietfood #vietnamese #food

April 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM

Jan Thie

@janthie.bsky.social

This is a recipe Andrea Nguyen posted on her blog 'Pass the fish sauce'. If you like to make Asian food (with emphasis on the Vietnam kitchen) you should follow it.

This is called 'Hanoi style sticky rice with mung beans'.

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#VietFood
#MungBeans
#MicrowaveRice
#AndreaNguyen

Shot from above of the layer of microwaved rice on a green glass plate. I put douchi and dried mushroom in the bowl from the start, so it looks a bit brown, and the mushrooms are showing.

The second layer, of shaved mung beans, lies on top of the rice. They are white-yellow.

First you boil the mung beans and when the water is gone, you mash the now soft beans till you can form a ball with it. You let that rest at room temperature, uncovered, for about an hour (till the outside is hard).
- Half an hour before the mung beans are ready, you make your sticky microwave rice. (I added douchi and dried mushrooms, because: why not?)

An added layer of fried onions goes on top of the mung beans. They are pale golden (or more prosaically: grey-brown) beneath you see some yellow of the mung beans and some brown on the edges, where rice peeps out.

Oh, I forgot: I shaved the ball of mung bean with a potato peeler.

A simple but very satisfying dish.

A little bowl with mushroom salt. The bowl is aluminium and shiny; the salt is a dull grey.

I ground some of my homemade dried mushroom powder with coarse sea salt, as condiment. I didn't use much, so I will put the rest in a small air-tight box.

March 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM

B-Chan Zabytko

@bonstanceus.bsky.social

It’s soup night for #dinner. While the progeny are doubling down on their Phở, I am having Bún bò Huế. They even gave me extra mắm ruốc to put in the bowl.

#OmNomNom #ViệtFood #BúnBòHuế